Sentry Turret

[Gimlix]

I saw 1 of the new level 100 hunter skills and it looks like we can have our own turret to shoot enemies.
Gotta admit, that is hella cool!

What is your opinion on having your own turrent?

[willtron]

it seems super out of place

[derpkitteh]

it doesn't suit hunter, imo.

hunters use their beasts, melee fighting, or they're snipers. none of those really use turrets. when i think turret, i think engineer.

[Raugnaut]

Blizz is heavily borrowing from D3/Heroes for LEgion.

[Hotmail]

Blizz is heavily borrowing from D3/Heroes for LEgion.

Cross-promoting their IPs seems to be the new MO I distinctly remember a Legacy of the Void mission that very much reminded me of doing a Diablo 3 co-op dungeon run... with Heroes of the Storm characters.

We will be seeing a lot more of that...

[Gimlix]

What is so wrong with a hunter using turrets? I think it sounds like a cool idea!

[jSewell]

So they basically took the hated Searing Totem from shamans and gave it to us as a talent. Cool.

[idunnowatdo]

i called this that they where gonna pull from diablo

[Huggykaze]

it doesn't suit hunter, imo.

hunters use their beasts, melee fighting, or they're snipers. none of those really use turrets. when i think turret, i think engineer.

Let's move away from Hunter for a bit. Archetype is Archer/Ranger, then you move down to more specific choices and Sentry Turret will fit more than one. Although I agree it should be MM talent. Well, they already said that some of these were cut anyway, guess some were moved as well.

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So they basically took the hated Searing Totem from shamans and gave it to us as a talent. Cool.

Searing Totem was hated because it had to be kept up all the time for small gain and didn't move around, this one is a talent cooldown, you either take it or not, delaying it by few seconds won't hurt so much as well. Much better way of delivering it. Also it's cool that melee specs get a few ways of hitting from a distance.

[willtron]

Let's move away from Hunter for a bit. Archetype is Archer/Ranger, then you move down to more specific choices and Sentry Turret will fit more than one. Although I agree it should be MM talent. Well, they already said that some of these were cut anyway, guess some were moved as well.

Okay but there's a common theme across Hunters - Beasts. Pulling a flaming turret out your arse seems super out of place and non-fitting for a Hunter. It feels like a filler talent.

[Huggykaze]

Okay but there's a common theme across Hunters - Beasts. Pulling a flaming turret out your arse seems super out of place and non-fitting for a Hunter. It feels like a filler talent.

As I said, let's move away from a Hunter to its archetype. Even now the class could be renamed to Ranger, not to mention common theme across hunters is hunting, not taming.

[derpkitteh]

actually... rethinking this a bit, this could be really really fucking cool.

beast master with this talent + http://beta.wowhead.com/item=134125/...nization-fluid + the titan gun artifact = a pseudo-engineer.

this is really cool. i might go gnome if i can do this, tbh.

[Feanoro]

Even before Legion, SV was about being the clever woodsman, using traps, poisons, explosives, and tricks in general. I don't see a problem with a turret.

[Ettan]

uhm not loving that particular aspect. In essence it is simply a searing totem = as lame as it gets.

The rest of the talents seem amazing for surv tho. But would like serpent sting baseline.

[Totemslap]

beast master with this talent + http://beta.wowhead.com/item=134125/...nization-fluid + the titan gun artifact = a pseudo-engineer.

Hate to disappoint, sir, but it's a Survival Talent. BM can't take it.

[Kiradyn]

Hate to disappoint, sir, but it's a Survival Talent. BM can't take it.

Yeah, great time to make SV Hunters melee when Blizzard finally starts giving them engineering-style abilities. SV Hunters also get Sticky Grenades, Caltrops, and Nets. Too bad they can't use guns! It would be the perfect fantasy with Gnome hunters and mecha pets.

Maybe they'll let us get Wrenchcalibur?

[FertsBlert]

Well I tend to make all my hunters BM cause I'm lazy buuut a gnome Surv hunter is likely on the horizon for me

[The Demon Slayer]

while a sentry turret seems cool it feels more like a tinker ability than anything else

[De Lupe]

Okay but there's a common theme across Hunters - Beasts. Pulling a flaming turret out your arse seems super out of place and non-fitting for a Hunter. It feels like a filler talent.

Think of it more as a trap. Then it fits perfectly.

[Totemslap]

Yeah, great time to make SV Hunters melee when Blizzard finally starts giving them engineering-style abilities. SV Hunters also get Sticky Grenades, Caltrops, and Nets. Too bad they can't use guns! It would be the perfect fantasy with Gnome hunters and mecha pets.

Maybe they'll let us get Wrenchcalibur?

Survival has only a couple of "engineering-style" abilities at most, and they generally fit the spec with the exception of Sentry Turret. And even then, it's cool enough to make an exception. Regardless, Survival is far from the "engineering Hunter" you and others are making it out to be. Seems a bit disingenuous.