In Ghostcrawler’s new post on upcoming class changes, all three hunter specs get mentioned by name in the first body paragraph. Survival hunters are brought up twice, for having suspiciously high single target damage and for having possibly too-high AoE damage. Beast Mastery and Marksmanship hunters get singled out as having damage that is definitely too low. This much attention, this prominently in the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘buff’
Likely Nerf to Survival, Buffs to Beast Mastery and Marksmanship
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged buff, class changes, ghostcrawler, nerf on December 28, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Blue Post Christmas List!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged blue posts, bm, buff, dps, mm, nerf, pets, sv, wolves on December 22, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Bah Humbug. Bornakk says: The spirit beasts are not the real issue from our perspective. We this spirit beasts are doing fine and we don’t want them to be the only choice for BM hunters since speccing BM should give a player more choices for pets (ideally) and not less. The problem mainly lies with [...]
Tentative Hunter Changes in 3.3!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.3, avoidance, buff, changes, misdirect, misdirection, nerf, patch 3.3, pve, pvp on October 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The patch 3.3 test realm notes were released today. Of interest: Hunter Misdirection: Redesigned. Instead of having finite charges, it now begins a 4-second timer when the hunter using Misdirection performs a threat-generating attack, during which all threat generated by the hunter goes to the friendly target. In addition, multiple hunters can now misdirect threat [...]
The Hunting Party Podcast, Episode 6!
Posted in Hunter, Hunting Party Podcast, World of Warcraft, tagged 3.2.2, armor pen, armor penetration, bestial wrath, buff, nerf, profession, professions, tier 9 set bonus, trial of the grand crusader, what professions should a hunter take on September 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This week, we cover the news: faction changes, the armor penetration nerf, 3.2.2, bestial wrath nerfbuff, trial of the grand crusader difficulty, the tier 9 set bonus bug fixes, and Darkbrew’s theories on management. We then answered some listener questions! Episode 6 of the Hunting Party Podcast was also the first live show, however this [...]
Hunter DPS badly in need of buffing!
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged buff, dps, ghostcrawler, hunter DPS, pve, raiding on May 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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*] -Ghostcrawler *edited for clarity Well, I won’t delete my character and roll a rogue, but come on!