I heard "Huge Hunter Changes Incoming", what happened?
Main - Spirál - Hunter
Can we stop the name calling please?
The PvP bug was completely different. It did behave like all the pets were doing 100% damage and still doing all their attacks, which was overpowered. It only worked in arenas I believe. They fixed that bug earlier on, then they nerfed it to only do auto attacks with the cobra/steady shots and arcane shot buffs. Now on the ptr it is buffed by removing the damage reduction of the summoned pets.
stampede has always done 25% dmg for each pet, now they are removing that reduction in pve.
Strictly speaking that is not true. A little after 5.0 Stampede was nerfed to 25% along with Spirit mend on those stampede pets to 25%. For a short period of time Stampede was doing 100% pet damage. Which is why BM hunters in the early part of 5.0 were demolishing pretty much anyone with one button press.
Hey at least they said that they haven't done anything to dps yet. We still have some time and being hopeful for something is better than nothing. At least they know that there is an issue with our dps and might make some changes.
My concern is that we needed a pretty substantial buff just to get to the top 4 slots where a pure dps with no raid cool down should be.
Then they took readiness. All I have heard is we ill be compensated for the readiness change. I can not find anywhere they have said they will be buffing us because we were horrible to begin with.
Compensation for the readiness nerf wont get it done.
You add in how the fights are pretty much all multi dot fights and they still have not fixed our scaling issues and heroic progression is looking grim unless they buff us to mage level OPness (20k to 100k over the 2nd place dps) to start with.
That way when everyone is geared and our lack of scaling drops us through the floor we will only go down to 5 or 6th and still be viable.
I think the bug was that the pets ignored the resilience and was doing full damage on players
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Btw - next build or so we should have some dmg tuning :
"40% seems excessive. Any documentation of that? In any case, we're still tuning. Next build or so should have some"' - GC's twitter
Last edited by Beoren; 2013-08-06 at 09:39 AM.