Hunter by its nature is the “archer” class of WoW. Melee hunter shouldn’t be top DPS, it shouldn’t even be top DPS among the 3 hunter specs. It should be a viable diversity option at best. The fact that Gnomeregan bosses have absurd armor values and melee hunter is still far ahead of all classes shows how ridiculously overpowered the spec is, and the incoming nerfs are absolutely needed.
However, the other two specs are severely underperforming. Hunter right now is the only purely-dps class in the game and its damage should always be at least decent, but instead I see slightly-above-phase 1 DPS on some bosses while having half-bis gear, including the epic weapon.
Please buff the two traditional specs, but nerf hunter pet damage to players so that PvP perverts don’t suffer from overtuned pets and don’t whine their way into ruining yet another spec (again).
I run a guild, and it would be nice if the hunters were shooting again and it was actually good. just from a purely raid management perspective, as getting to many melee for the raid to function is a genuine problem for me.
melee hunter just got nerfed for the 2nd time. so now is the time to look at range hunter, blizz, they are not doing too well and are far behind the top dps’ers
You have to stop pretending that blizzard have to up MM hunter, if the MM hunter was top dps you all would cry nerf and Blizzard would massacre the hunter class even more than it did.
WoW players are hypocrites, I personally haven’t forgotten your attitude towards the hunter in P1, I know very well that “up the MM hunter” just means, give him a bone as long as I continue to destroy him in pvp and as long as i’m above him on dpsmeter in pve.
I didn’t even stick with Hunter for P2 due to the P1 runes not being course corrected and I am so glad I switched to Tank Lock as my main as the runes from P1 are really fun to use. (P2 runes are crap tho but who’s P2 runes aren’t crap?)
They showed their hand that they have no idea how to design for hunters or how to tune them throughout P1 and refusing to listen to criticism so why expect that to change really?
I’ll still whine about it on the forums for the hopes that maybe half a year from now they’ll wise up and overhaul it but I’d advice any Hunter that don’t like playing a class that gets treated like dirt to just switch to an alt. It’s not worth it.
I mean, as I’ve said before, I don’t care about being top dps so long as I bring something interesting to the table. If all the runes were utility and gave Hunters new ways of playing the game that offered brand new utility then I’d be happy going into the middle.
Being pure DPS means we ‘should’ be in the top 3.
Its bullsh… lore wise hunter are also melee and its perfect they use the survival three for it. I really love playing melee hunter with alot of traps. But year marksmen three needs a little love
At this point there is only 3 options for Blizzard to handle hunters.
Nr1: As the only pure damage class hunters should be in the top when it comes to damage. The problem with this thou is that then most raids will just choose Tank/Healer and the rest dps as hunters which is bad for other classes.
Nr2: Balance hunters to be in the middle of the pack when it comes to damage with both melee and ranged.
Problem here is if other ranged classes and melee classes does more damage than hunters and at the same time can fill more roles then hunters (aka tank and healer) then whats the point playing a hunter anymore?
Nr3: Make hunters fill more roles than just dps. Make BM hunter a dps/healer role similar to arcane mages. Make survival a dps/tank role and make MM a pure dps role.
This way hunters will add use in groups and raids as other roles aswell and doesnt need to be in the top as dps anymore.
The bad thing with this is that it goes so far away from what classic WoW is supposed to be. But then again Blizzard has already done this with other classes, so what does it matter anymore?
You never fail to prove that you are a spiteful sad man-child. Your stupidity is being mentioned in posts that you haven’t commented yet. Imagine how bad you have to be to get to this level.
But don’t you worry, hunters are still gonna pump very hard
Stop whining, people like you ruined retail, don’t ruin classic with your whines. If you think hunter is so OP, and you want to play OP, just play hunter. Problem solved.