Good change overall. Pve damage will be balanced around no silence shot damage. In pvp, you don't lose that dps from saving silence shot for critial time.
Oh god this changes our... uh... well... um... who cares, any good hunter bound it and never thought about it again.
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
Well with our limited Focus resource they kind of had to. It doesn't have a Focus cost now so you can always use it when you need to and the only damage dealing shot they want to not cost you Focus (out side a special proc) is Steady/Cobra shot since they actually regen your Focus for you. So having to choose removing the damage or making it cost Focus I will take the damage nerf any day.
Exactly. Things like LDW, VDW or RS you are not a main interrupt at all, and are very rarely called to do it, so you macro it in, but its that moment where you wish you had it off CD and you don't. Things like LK normal are annoying as well, since you'll want it up in P5 just incase you get put in the frostmourne room.
This topic is 100% right blizz what the hell is wrong with you have gone too far. Making DPS learn the point of their stuff complete BULL PLOP WHAT'S NEXT A ROGUE USING CRIPPLING POISON TO SLOW MOVEMENT? Pure lunacy blizz really way the hell are you trying to piss everyone off by making the game fun yet fair in a group setting?
There's really nothing wrong with this change. With mastery blizzard can dial up or down dps of every class as they see fit. So 2 similarly geared and skilled players will be as close to each other on the holy recount as blizzard wants.
Now we can be useful for things other than kiting/dispelling. yay.
The moment I read it, I checked one of my recent combat logs. Silencing Shot generally does not account for more than 2.5% of my current DPS. Considering all the other changes in Cata, I think we'll be just fine.
What's the point? We are all gonna die from 30k Aimed shots anyway.
Aimed shot deal 300% weapon damage >.<
Doesn't really need to do damage anyways, surprised we didn't see this sooner...
I disagree with this statement for a number of reasons.
First, you'd be gimping yourself to go into any kind of pvp with SS macroed into everything
Second, It's much easier to set up a mod to tell you when it's off CD than to change out all of your keybinds when you actually want the silence and then back when you are just using it for the dps boost.
I really like this change, and am looking forward to not having to choose between being useful or doing slightly more damage