Oh look, another "Does Blizzard care about (X class)?"
There's one of these for EVERY SINGLE CLASS. Like, I'm sure I'm just coming off being a prick here and it is a tad intentional but there's sooo many of these threads about pretty much every class. Does it really merit being asked again?
Now, honestly, in context? The devs are doing a really poor ass job of addressing the community for EVERY CLASS. Hunter, DK, you name it. But in this, Hunter is not some magical exception like this title tries to imply.
Beyond that, Hunters got wrecked pretty much the hardest IMO out of any of these supposeded "overhauls". Hunter has just been decimated. BM is horrible, MM is horrible. SV is .. unique and far, far more active, so it's no shock some people are beginning to fantasize about being accepted into raid groups as a SV Hunter (which we know due to a toxic, misinformed and extremely judgemental community who thinks they understand the entire 100% -- but really barely know how the game even functions or how to do anything correctly -- that won't happen).
This is ESPECIALLY amazing when Hunter was in decent shape at the end of WOD and needed some tweaks like giving MM an instant or two maybe to help with a little more mobility and less "long, hard casts" which can get downright boring -- and BM needed another baseline cooldown shot or something to add a bit more to a lacking rotation.
No one wanted a melee Hunter, so that's pretty hilarious. What's even funnier is people now giving it a try and liking it, myself included in a sense but I chose it because I don't wanna play MM and BM is utter garbage now. It's damn near a 2 button rotation. What the freakin' fuck? Who looked at that and said: "This will be fun!"?
MM spends it's entire time staring at that debuff on the enemy and making sure to keep it reapplied. It can be maintained enough, it may as well just be 100% uptime passively.
ATLEAST they are looking at god awful Barrage is right now. That ability has been terrible and hard to predict/control since the beginning. A reddit post made me laugh when someone said: "What is the range on Barrage?" and the response was: "If you can SEE the mob, Barrage is going to hit it." That isn't entirely true but it profoundly demonstrates the issue about how it functions in reality.
So atleast they are willing to look at that. Small steps?
We were told on BETA: "Don't bother giving class feedback, we don't care," by Celestalon.
I'll be impressed if they suddenly decide to get off their asses, listen and DO something. For Hunters, or ANY class.
(This has been a total off-the-cuff post, with my frustrations thrown in clearly and openly as a bonus!)