Originally Posted by
eschatological
If you think CoS and SS are balanced outside of anything but sustained PvE damage, IDK what to tell you. The fact of the matter is, when a hunter runs out of focus, (s)he has to use severely gimped abilities to regen that focus. Keep in mind, our passive regen is much slower than rogues/ferals.
Also, scatter shot was never deadzone-able. Not in recent memory, at least.
I'm not entirely sure but I thought silencing shot didn't have a deadzone either? Huge caveat there, I don't remember one, but it is quite possible.