[ Classes] Concern for the WotlK Hunters

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Graytooth13

join:2008-07-28
Tomball, TX

[ Classes] Concern for the WotlK Hunters

After perusing over the changes below and the new talents in WotlK I felt that hunters are being nerfed far too much to my liking. Before the facts I had fantasized about my BM hunter having a rhino tank and 4 manning instances with a decent healer.
Now I ask to those in the PTR and WotlK Beta: '1 What is the use of BM in the expansion? 2 Are they worth a damn? 3 Should I just go MM or SV? 4 What's best for PVP now? 5 What's best for Raiding? 6 If they suck so bad, should I just level a DK or should I level my hunter and wait for the time when I'm buffed again?' Please answer below.

3.0 Hunter changes (as a reminder)
-All aspects now have a 1 second global cooldown, down from a 1.5 global cooldown.

-All pet families now have one unique ability. New abilities have been added for families such as bears and sporebats.

-Stablemasters can now accommodate two additional pets.

-Pets now have their own trees. These can be accessed via the talent panel.

-Animal Handler (Beast Mastery): No longer increases speed while mounted, but now reduces the cooldown of your Master's Call ability by 5/10 sec. :/
--Arcane Shot: No longer dispels magic effects.--

-Aspects now no longer cost mana.

-Aspect of the Beast: Now increases melee attack power by 10% for the hunter and the hunter’s pet.

(better than hawk?)
--Aspect of the Viper - The hunter takes on the aspect of the viper, instantly regenerating mana equal to 100% of the damage done by any ranged attack or ability, but reduces your total damage done by 50%. Only one Aspect can be active at a time.--

-Avoidance, Dash / Dive and Cobra Reflexes are now pet talents instead of pet skills. :\
-Bestial Swiftness is now a pet talent tree talent, and has been removed from the Beast Mastery Hunter tree. :\
-Bite now has no cooldown, does the same damage and costs the same Focus as Claw, so works as a Focus dump. :\
-Clever Traps (Survival) has been renamed "Trap Mastery."
-Combat Experience (Marksmanship): Now grants 3/6% Agility, up from 1/2%.

-Concussive Barrage (Marksmanship): Can now proc from Volley and Multi-shot attacks. :\
-Counterattack: Damage increased by 20%, and now also scales with your Ranged Attack Power. :\
-Deterrence (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, and now also increases your chance to resist spells by 60%. Now has a new spell effect.

-Disengage: This ability has been re-designed. Now leaps the Hunter backwards up to 13 yards. 30 second cooldown.

Disengage now also only has one rank (rank 1).
-Distracting Shot: This shot now "taunts" the target onto the Hunter. The taunt effect will last 6 seconds. :\ Distracting Shot now only has one rank (rank 1).
-Every hunter pet can learn Growl, Cower and either Bite or Claw (never both). :\
-Focused Fire (Beast Mastery): Now increases the critical strike chance of your Kill Command by 10/20/30% while Kill Command is active. This effect can stack up to 3 times, but diminishes for each charge of Kill Command.

-Hunter pets can now learn talents in one of three trees depending on family. Pets gain talent points starting at level 20 and earn an extra talent point every 4 levels.
If a hunter tames a pet that is more than five levels beneath their own level, the pet will then have their level increased to five levels beneath the hunter’s own level.

-Improved Arcane Shot (Marksmanship): Now increases the damage done by your Arcane Shot by 5/10/15%. (no more reduced cooldown?)
-Improved Feign Death (Survival): This talent has been replaced with Survival Tactics. :\
-Improved Hunter's Mark (Marksmanship): Now a 3-point talent, and now increases the amount of attack power granted by your Hunter's Mark ability by 10/20/30% and reduces the mana cost of your Hunter's Mark ability by 33/66/100%.

-Improved Stings (Marksmanship): Now a 3-point talent, down from 5-points.

-Kill Command: This ability now increases the damage done by your pet's special abilities by 60%. Each attack will reduce the damage bonus by 20%. 1 minute cooldown. :\
-Loyalty, Training Points and the hunter Beast Training button no longer exist. Hunter pets can now learn all skills at their level. They will get new ranks automatically as they gain levels.

-Master Tactician (Survival): Chance to proc increased to 10%, up from 6%.

-Mongoose Bite: No longer requires you to dodge in order to use this ability. :\ huh?
-Monster Slaying (Survival) and Humanoid Slaying (Survival) has been combined into "Improved Tracking". :\
-New Talent - Aspect Mastery (Beast Mastery)
-New Talent - Hunter vs. Wild (Survival): Increases you and your pet's attack power and ranged attack power equal to 10/20/30% of your total Stamina.
-New Talent - Improved Tracking (Survival): Increases all damage done to targets that are being tracked 1/2/3/4/5%.
-New Talent - Lock and Load (Survival): You have a 33/66/100% chance when you trap a target and a 10/20/30% chance when you sting a target to cause your next 3 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot spells to trigger no cooldown, cost no mana and consume no ammo.
-New Talent - Survival Tactics (Survival): Reduces the chance your Feign Death ability and all trap spells will be resisted by 2/4%, and reduces the cooldown of your Disengage ability by 2/4 sec.
-New Talent - T.N.T. (Survival): Your Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Explosive Shot have a 5/10/15% to stun targets for 2 sec when they deal damage, and increases the critical strike chance of your Explosive Shot and Explosive Trap by 5/10/15%.
-Pathfinding (Beast Mastery): Now also increases the movement speed while mounted by 5/10%.
-Rapid Killing (Marksmanship): This will now proc off Chimera Shot, but no longer works with auto-shot.
-Readiness (Survival): Cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 5 minutes.
-Savage Strikes (Survival): Now includes Counterattack.
-Silencing Shot (Marksmanship): This spell will now interrupt the current spell being cast on the target and lock out that school for 3 sec if the target is immune to silence effects.
-Spirit Bond (Beast Mastery): Also increases healing done to you and your pet by 5/10%.
-Steady Shot now uses ammo. In result, its bonus damage has been slightly reduced. Players can notice a damage increase based upon what ammo they use.
-Steady Shot: Now has a 2.0 cast time, up from 1.5.
-Surefooted (Survival) now reduces the duration of movement impairing effects by 16/25/50% (instead of resist % chance).
-Survival Instincts (Survival): This has been moved to tier-2, up from tier 6.
-Survivalist (Survival): Now increases your total Stamina, instead of your total Health.
-The arming time has been reduced to 1 second, from 2 seconds for all traps.
-Tranquilizing Shot: Cooldown reduced to 15 seconds (down from 20), and now dispels Enrage and Magic effects.
-Trap Mastery (Survival) is now an 11-point talent.
-Trueshot Aura - This aura is now raid-wide and now increases all ranged and melee attack power by 10%. In addition, this spell now only has one rank. All other ranks have been removed.
-Wingclip: No longer does damage.


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