Originally Posted by
eschatological
I don't know what to do with you, I literally posted the proof that Stampede has never been, in either beta or live, 175% damage, and you just outright ignore it and claim a faulty tooltip on WoWDB, even when the ability was first put into the beta, was in actuality the real damage.
I am *not* judging my experiences based on my own experiences. Method uses 3 hunters, Paragon uses 1 in a 10 man, Blood Legion uses 1 as well. You know what these top guilds have in common? They don't post their logs. Most top guilds have private parses. Which means they don't get seen by raidbots either. You would be hard pressed to find one top parse on World of Logs in the top 10. Hell, we keep our logs private during progression too, and we're a nothing guild, it's just for our own competition on the server. In a top guild like those, *everyone* is within 5k of each other except on fights with gimmicks like Garalon. The hunters are right in there. The median for hunters surely has dipped, but like I said before, that's because hunters went from being a low-effort-for-big-results class to a high-effort-for-big-results class.
Your only valid point is that hunters are a "pure class" and that there should be some consideration that we do more damage. However, Blizz long ago stated they don't want to design for a "hybrid tax" that makes hybrids do less damage because of their utility. This has led to almost a reverse discrimination against pures who lack the same level of utility but can be matched in DPS. Hunters were always in the top 4 DPS classes when the only high DPS classes were the 4 pure classes like hunters, warlocks, mages and rogues.