With the current iteration of trap launcher, AV and AB are solely decided by how many hunters are on each team (doesn’t matter if alli or horde). 2 hunters with a well placed immo trap in a group can wipe a raid without counterplay, but that is not even the worst part. FROST TRAPS. frost traps have slowed the game to a crawl, with hunters on both sides abusing chokes to the point where AV is only playable if you put the money down for free action potions.
Even hunters in BG seem to agree. One fix I would opinion is maybe give hunters the choice to either use frost OR fire traps with their launcher. This will still keep the supreme utility of it intact and keep it relevant for PVE without completely disrupting PVP.
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This is not limited to pvp. I was in LBRS yesterday with a hunter and he did 3.5k DPS overall. Not good gear beyond some ST stuff either.
Hunter as is can solo most lv.60 dungeons or at least do highly efficient trash farming.
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3.5k overall? if you wanna lie, go all in. what about 25K overall? without even looking at the screen. It sounds much better 
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On behalf of the Shamans’ Guild I would like to congratulate hunters on becoming the most cried about class in phase 4 of SoD. It’s been a wild few months for the shaman class, but it seems that it is time to hand over the throne, godspeed, huntards.
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He was chain pulling multiple packs. The tank only had to pick the slow immune mobs, few as there are. With 9s CD on both traps, the rest of us were pretty superfluous
he isn’t lying.
their trap damage is cracked.
Obviously this doesn’t work for single target, in single target they’re merely top dps atm by a respectable margin, and not doing more then the rest of the group combined. I’m talking about dungeons though, like LBRS, UBRS, Strat, etc, which are mostly multi target pulls.
Im under siege boys, where are my ele shamans to take off some of the spotlights?
Can you guys please make a ele shaman raid in BRM to spread the angry crowd away from my traps landing in their faces and them not being able to backpedal anymore - as that seems to pull quite heavy aggro.
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I call BS when i see it. and OP is full of BS
so are hunter players
“wE nEEd sOmEthInG TO cOMpEnSate”
Ofc you do. how stupid are you?! 
Nerf Priest ofc. insane how much they got in PvP… god mode PvP class
they already nerfed priest lol.
you are up next kiddo.
if you got issues with hunter as priest. Im left speechless. Maybe find another game? Roblox perhaps?
You really always have to resort to petty personal insults when people are trying to have a conversation about some busted aspects of the game ?
Frost traps are disgusting atm, we can all agree on that.
Nerfing it would benefit the game as a whole, it is just too OP.
Giving a skill for hunters to help them deal with melee pressure is fine, but more like a disengage or turtle aspect.
You’re under siege cause you’re making people play the game and react instead of just zugging to Van or Drek! HOW DARE YOU IMPEED ON PEOPLE TRYING TO SKIP PLAYING THE GAME!
Stay strong Hunter-bro! I know how it was with us druids in p1 because some disliked our boomkin range. Keep laying those traps until people start playing AV how it’s meant to be played and not pay a sub to skip playing the game!
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I think the biggest issue at the moment is the damage from explosive trap more then anything.
Yes it is overturned. Only problem is that if we don’t want hunter to be very bad PvE , trap damage is needed. It is a complicated balance here.
Maybe there can be a solution to reduce the pvp problem that trap cause , while keeping the PvE decent.
Give lock and load procs on damage done by immolation trap. Enough to compensate the nerf on raw trap damage from explosive trap.
I could propose to up damage from aimed/chimera but I already hear the cries coming.
Or just spread the explosive trap damage more over time and less on explosion. Because the initial explosion hit very hard but the AOE left behind hit like 60 per tic which is very low.