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Blue Posts on Hunter Scaling and the Survival Rotation

Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged on November 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Following the class Q&A the blues hit the forums in force to clear some things up, and some of those things related to hunters. One post, found here, relates to hunter scaling.  Others relate to the SV rotation and are found here and here. You can find all three posts in full after the cut.

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A Note on the Request for Feedback

Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged , on September 16, 2011 | 12 Comments »

I see a lot of comments here and in other places like the Arena Junkies forums accusing these feedback threads of being deeply cynical placations of the playerbase.  The comments question, “how could Blizzard possibly still need our feedback?  The problems are obvious and we’ve been posting about them for ages.”  They question, “why would Blizzard [...]

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Blizzard Requests Hunter Class Feedback

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , on September 12, 2011 | 8 Comments »

This post is just a heads up that Blizzard is requesting feedback on all classes, including hunters.  You can find the US thread on hunters here and the EU thread on hunters here. Note that the blues have specific questions they want players to answer.

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Class Identity as a Constraint on Class Balance

Posted in Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , on August 26, 2011 | 21 Comments »

We know that developers attempt to balance around all sorts of mathematical factors like itemization, target hit points, burst vs. sustained dps, etc.  However, they evaluate non-mathematical factors as well.  This post discusses how developers balance around hunter class identity.

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Encouraging Blue Post on Hunter PVP

Posted in Hunter, pvp, World of Warcraft, tagged , on August 18, 2011 | 10 Comments »

Zarhym sat down down in the forums tonight and talked pvp with folks.  Out of that discussion we got this somewhat encouraging post about hunter pvp: I need to talk to the devs about the balance feedback I’m seeing echoed in here. That still doesn’t guarantee I’ll get right back to you tomorrow on this stuff, but [...]

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Threat to Be of Less Importance

Posted in World of Warcraft, Hunter, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The recent Dev Watercooler explains a rather significant change to threat.  Read on after the break for more.

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Hunter Global Cooldown in Cataclysm!

Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Digging through the blue posts on fury warriors (haha, no, actually Shaedon over at the Hunter’s Refuge posted about this) I found this gem of a hunter tidbit from Ghostcrawler: Lowering the GCD is as close to anything on the never list. We will possibly do it for hunters, but that is because their resource [...]

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Huge Cataclysm Raiding Announcement!

Posted in Offtopic, World of Warcraft, tagged , , , , , , , on April 26, 2010 | 35 Comments »

This will definitively end the drama between 10 and 25 man raiding: in Cataclysm, Blizzard will be making you choose between 10s and 25s. The gear reward quality will be the same, but to compensate guilds that are able to organize two and a half times the people, there will be more drops per raider. [...]

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