Originally Posted by
the boar
wasn't armour penetration stacked marksmanship the best spec for 3 out of the 4 raids* of that expansion ._. that stupid trinket from ulduar10 just made it ridiculously good.
(*i am excluding onyxia, but even mm was best for that so..)
anyway i'll throw my list out there~
tbc: i really liked survival, but only really because it actually felt like i was helping by buffing a group. bm was just boring, and i wasn't no auto-shot macro jockey.
wotlk: i really liked survival here too actually, bm was less boring too. but i spent most of the expansion as marksmanship just due to the ridiculous damage.
cataclysm: mm. even when it was sit there hard-casting aimed shot. even on heroic ragnaros. i just enjoyed mm the most. couldn't get on with bm, survival.. idk, can't even remember what changed here.
mop: i feel like this was the only expansion where hunter didn't get a complete overhaul? bm remained something i couldn't get on with, idk if mm changed. but i enjoyed survival a lot in this expansion, probably due to tier set bonuses -- oh yeah and being able to move with steady shot again ha.
wod: ...survival had so much potential. i wanted to enjoy it. i couldn't. felt way too clunky to me. bm still something i couldn't get on with. mm was just the least worst to play - hfc tier bonus made it even less worse.
legion: bm fun but boring. mm... i don't even know. i don't like it at all. survival, awesome, but way too many buttons and way too little synergy between abilities. feels like it could be great with some reworking. demon hunter, much more fun than the three other specs, lots of cool new zooming about abilities, while also retaining the old classics like disengage, deterrence, barrage (though that got made redundant). also added bonus of being able to tank!
i am really glad demon hunters came about, because plain hunter is just not an enjoyable class for me this expansion. i have high hopes for survival, a melee/trap spec has been something i wanted since tbc, so seeing it become real was awesome. but good grief it needs a lot of love!