What!?
The developers believe hunter dps is too low, so today we are implementing a change to ranged weapon damage to improve dps across the board. [And arms warrior can bite me*]
*edited for clarity
Well, I won’t delete my character and roll a rogue, but come on!
1) look at how many other PURE dps they are ahead of. 1. a mage.
2) that is overall data and doesn’t tell crap about the raid really. Put up a boss parse. Like Ignis or KT where both melee and range have equal footing.
Volley pads meters, so does seed of corruption, so does blizzard. *shrug*.
1) fine, this post is mostly bravado and balderdash anyway. You must be new here.
2) look carefully at the screenshot- it’s bosses only. If you’re going to come here in a huff, get your facts straight.
Volley pads meters? Psh. Psh I say. Volley is a craptacular AOE since the nerf. I generally fall somewhat behind on the meters when we’re all AOE’ing them these days, it’s nothing compared to the mage’s or the shadow priest’s or the warlock’s AOE.
I’m not entirely sure why they’re buffing us, but I certainly won’t refuse it. I didn’t know they were doing that with the guns, that’s pretty cool.
I was disappointed when they didn’t change the ammo the way they were planning to, I wonder if whatever change they’ll be announcing will make up for that. I guess we’ll see!
And I’m glad I’m not the only hunter topping the DPS charts for Ulduar. Grats, dude.
Uhm, yes, ‘WTF?!’ has been my first thought on this too. The only thing i can imagine is that hunter-dps my be lower -in comparison- the higher your content (i’ve downed 8/14 Ulduar heroic) and iLevel gets.
Never seen any WWS-Logs from the General, Yogg-Saron or any hardmode-attempts though.
That might actually make sense. Hunters have been telling Ghostcrawler that we lost our ability to scale with the steady shot nerf…
Its not really the current situation the developers are concerned about, but rather how it ends up when melees get their new shiny 2-Handers and us our crossbow. Then you’ll see what they are all about, because we definately scale way worse with our weapon upgrades then them, especially when taking into account, that there is no new ammo like back in the day with CoT faction ammo. Essentially all they did is give us our next tier of ammo, just directly incorporated into the weapons.
You might be right. Well, half the opinions on this blog are half baked anyways. I assume people keep coming back for the corney puns and arms warrior jabs.
As a few people have said already… the more people get gear from Ulduar, the more hunters will fall behind (or that’s Blizz’s theory, anyway). In any case, I’m definitely not complaining ;)