Do hunters still have the same feel as before?

[Aouraven]

I played a hunter since late vanilla and through all the xpacs minus mists, I will probably pick up WoW again during winter break (grades are important or something). But I was wondering if hunters still have the same feel as before, or if people feel this xpac has changed them?

[Damsbo]

I feel better.. No more minimum range. Although, with all the stuns going on, it almost doesn't matter (pvp). More selfheal is good.. So you know, same problems with other names. So yeah, same old feeling..

[Deleted]

More to keep track of in my opinion... Cooldowns etc (mostly from the new talents), and although this might just be me switching to BM since start of MoP, I feel like I have to watch my pet more than before. Still feels relatively similar though, and still enjoying it very much.

[Shirohibiki]

Lots of new CD's, no minimum range, and moving while casting Cobra/Steady Shot. Otherwise it feels basically the same. I love my hunter.

[Deleted]

You know when you used to beat the crap out of mages ? It's the other way around now.

[tehpud]

You know when you used to beat the crap out of mages ? It's the other way around now.

I approve this message.

[Beebeey]

You know when you used to beat the crap out of mages ? It's the other way around now.

Your signature is awesome.

As for the original question: Yes, it still feels mostly the same to me.

[Penguintamer]

Aside from the 16 buttons that have to be utilized in our rotations, then we're not half-bad now.

But that's pretty hard to overlook.

[Beebeey]

Your signature is awesome.
As for the original question: Yes, it still feels mostly the same to me.

On a random note: Why is my signature icon topless and why does it still show me being in a friend's guild. >.<
Do these not update?

---------- Post added 2012-12-05 at 04:52 PM ----------

Aside from the 16 buttons that have to be utilized in our rotations, then we're not half-bad now.
But that's pretty hard to overlook.

I never understood how people can still have the same stereotypes about hunters in terms of shot priorities and skill level as players in general (eg thinking we have like 1 button to spam and how we're all terrible at the game).

[ihatepeople]

Hunters feel 100% better playwise than in the past. Aside from a few gripes (mainly our continued lack of scaling and viable damage) I am actually pretty happy with how the class plays. This is still my favorite class to play after all these years.

[wynterlyn]

I played a hunter since late vanilla and through all the xpacs minus mists, I will probably pick up WoW again during winter break (grades are important or something). But I was wondering if hunters still have the same feel as before, or if people feel this xpac has changed them?

I've always loved Hunters in WoW. It has been a class I have played since I got into the game years back. I loved Hunters during WTLK and even though it wasn't polished and still was all over the place, it was still quite a fun class overall. You had the smaller things to keep track of, like feeding your pets, keeping them happy, etc. Classic Hunters would really have loved this class and some still do. I still miss Volley.

A lot changed during Cataclysm. I thought they finally perfected it in most regards. It was really sad that they made it quite dumb; they removed every interaction you had with your pets, and to top it off, you now had your pet on "assist" stance cause certain huntard pets would aggro random mobs. So if Hunters were the "noob" class pre Cata, they were completely face roll in Cata. But I thought the introduction of Focus was pretty cool. You finally had a rotation to keep track of which was a plus. However, I felt they were an expansion too late removing the minimum range. Cata was probably the best time for Hunters especially towards the tail end when SV became the raiding spec. I was never a fan of MM cause it found its rotation too clustered.

Fast Forward to Mists and you get a completely broken class. Its a classic case of "fixing something that wasn't broken". They went and went bat shit crazy with BM and gave it OP spells/skills and completely neglected MM/SV. My DPS literally went down after the changes. Also the rotation was literally too underwhelming even though they didn't change much. There were simply too many CDs to keep track of as a Hunter especially since Hunters were one of the classes with the fewest CDs pre Mists. SV became really boring and a snooze fest. You were forced into taking BM even though you didn't like it only cause it was so OP.

I think there are other better classes out there that are a lot more fun these days. I picked up a Warrior just before I left the game and I must say that they are a lot of fun. I only remember attempting to level a Warrior a long time back but gave up after 10 levels, cause they were soo boring and you were often rage starved.

Monks seem to be the "in" thing right now as well. I had really good fun levelling mine. I managed to get to level 20 before quitting. However, I found their DPS to be a bit low. But they are a pretty engaging class and you have a few things to keep track off.

[Deleted]

We went from a pretty smooth class to a keyboard smashing class, way to many CD's.
Or well, the amount of CD's ain't the problem, it's that bloody readiness that makes it feel clumsy because you need to do everything twice and that is ALOT compared to other classes.
Take BM's opener for an example ->

1. HM
2. Serpent sting
3. Rapid Fire + Stampede
4. a Muder of Crows
5. Dire Beast
4. Bestial wrath
5. Kill command
6. Glaive toss
7. Arcane shots untill kill command is of cd, then throw that and ->
8. Readiness
9. Kill Command
10. Glaive toss
11. Dire beast
12. Bestial wrath

And so on, way to much keyboard smashing...
The opener is just an example so don't QQ if it ain't optimal.

[Free]

It's horrible, readiness is a terrible baseline ability.

[Tehstool]

Contrary to the general consensus of hunters, I love where hunters are and I have no problems with the large amount of buttons/keybinds we require.

[Deleted]

Now that our lack of dps is fixed, my hunter feels more fun than ever before. Played it for 7years and mop has brought a lot of very good QoL changes to our class.
While you're gearing in heroics, it will feel clumpsy but once over ilvl460 it will feel like a very smooth killing machine again. We have a lot more skills to use than ever before during a fight but it doesn't bother me a lot.
I do miss that we lost the selfheal on ferocity pets while doing quests. But at least now mending has a reason to be on the action bar again.

[Deleted]

Now that our lack of dps is fixed, my hunter feels more fun than ever before. Played it for 7years and mop has brought a lot of very good QoL changes to our class.
While you're gearing in heroics, it will feel clumpsy but once over ilvl460 it will feel like a very smooth killing machine again. We have a lot more skills to use than ever before during a fight but it doesn't bother me a lot.
I do miss that we lost the selfheal on ferocity pets while doing quests. But at least now mending has a reason to be on the action bar again.

Ok, mr. Blizzard employee.

[Tokas]

imo it feels worse now
we used to have average amount of rotational spells, and it did ok damage
now we have fucktarded amount of rotational spells, and it barely does any damage (total dps is fine, but each spell itself does close to no damage, i swear soon it will heal our opponents instead)

[Tehstool]

imo it feels worse now
we used to have average amount of rotational spells, and it did ok damage
now we have fucktarded amount of rotational spells, and it barely does any damage (total dps is fine, but each spell itself does close to no damage, i swear soon it will heal our opponents instead)

Patch 5.1 Hotfixes - December 10

Bug Fixes

Classes

Hunter


The Hunter's arcane shot will now properly heal the target for half of the damage dealt.

[Deleted]

We benched our hunters atm. We only did pvp and hunters are crap at it atm. I even cancelled my sub in lack of anything to play for pvp as both my monk and hunter are shit.

[Tokas]

We benched our hunters atm. We only did pvp and hunters are crap at it atm. I even cancelled my sub in lack of anything to play for pvp as both my monk and hunter are shit.

well, at least mistweavers are fun, imo, while hunters suck in all 3 specs (again, imo)