Originally Posted by
Neazy
Thread is stupid. The whole premise is wrong: hunters do not counter casters, they counter frost mages. Warlocks and shadow priests, the other 2 casters, are the biggest hunter counter-classes out there. Also, removing the minimum range does nothing to address hunter's broken mechanics. Beastial Wrath being reset by Readiness is the only stupid thing hunters have. If that was removed, BM would be good (still bursty and stupid because you just spam instants with your cooldowns popped while hitting for shit damage outside of those cooldowns, but that's how the spec has always been) and marks would be as close to a perfectly balanced spec there is.
Power shot hits hard but it's not OP. It's just stupid that you can't shut down a BM hunter so they can use it any time they want (and get 10% extra damage thanks to BW). Remove BW from readiness and that's not as much of an issue. I could see a fix where power shot is lowered to 650% or so weapon damage but changed to magic damage so that it doesn't hit clothies as hard but hits roughly the same on armored classes, but it's not an ability that needs a huge overhaul.