6.2 Hunter changes

[Rackfu]

General
Aspect of the Fox has been removed.

Marksmanship
Aimed Shot now deals 15% more damage.

Survival
Mastery: Essence of the Viper has increased in effectiveness by 19%.
Explosive Shot now deals 15% less damage.
Serpent Sting no longer deals an initial "tick" of damage when the periodic effect is first applied.

Talents
A Murder of Crows now deals only 80% of normal damage against player-controlled targets.
Barrage now deals only 80% of normal damage against player-controlled targets. Additionally, the ability no longer hits invisible or stealthed targets.

[Xloudman]

[Ritchey92]

so weird... so stupid..

[PuppetShowJustice]

Hum. I actually kind of liked Aspect of the Fox.

[Shasta31]

I didn't really expect them to actually drop Fox. I hadn't seen/heard of Hunter stacking just for fox.

Serpent Sting no longer deals an initial "tick" of damage when the periodic effect is first applied.

Does that mean Arcane shots wont proc a sting tick?

[Ritchey92]

Like Azor said in his video, Fox is extremely strong when utilized correctly but most guilds don't care enough to use it's it to its full potential and just have hunters fox whenever.

[Retsef]

Correct. /10char

[UnderworldSoup]

I didn't really expect them to actually drop Fox. I hadn't seen/heard of Hunter stacking just for fox.

Mythic Blackhand.

[Pengalor]

Hum. I actually kind of liked Aspect of the Fox.

It's a really sweet and unique CD. Real shame if they decide to take it away entirely rather than dropping it down a bit if it's too powerful.

[Arcanimus]

It's a really sweet and unique CD. Real shame if they decide to take it away entirely rather than dropping it down a bit if it's too powerful.

They got rid of Amplify Magic as well for some reason.

[natelikewhoa]

Fox was broken and absurd. Needed to be removed and/or nerfed+given to other classes to prevent class stacking.

MM buff... nothing to say but:


for SV:

[Asiel]

I would have preferred them change it to a shared CD so they couldn't be chained and then just dropped the cooldown down to something reasonable, I'd suggest 1.5 minutes.

[Pengalor]

They got rid of Amplify Magic as well for some reason.

Yeesh. Sounds like typical Blizz though, go to every extreme, don't touch the middle ground (it's lava!).

[galaxyquest]

So why are they nerfing SV so hard if BM is technically the "top" spec?

[Res03]

So why are they nerfing SV so hard if BM is technically the "top" spec?

Im wondering this too, Survival is going to such a poor choice now

[Rackfu]

So why are they nerfing SV so hard if BM is technically the "top" spec?

Its early... if it turns out to be a huge nerf, it will get buffed back up.

they were actually very good at keeping all three specs close in 6.0 and 6.1

[Primal]

Why do you say NERFING SV ??? The amount increase to mastery effectiveness will do the job for the decrease of explosive shot's damage. Do you know what mastery does to SV ? Go and see for yourself.

[CenariusTheForestLord]

Not a main hunter, but isn't the SV thing a small buff ST (nerf for AOE)?
19% will affect explosive AND arcane?
15% down only on explosive?

[Rackfu]

Not a main hunter, but isn't the SV thing a small buff ST (nerf for AOE)?
19% will affect explosive AND arcane?
15% down only on explosive?

Its not buffing ES by 19% though.... Only making Mastery 19% better which will buff all magic damage by around 5-7% or so (quick rough math)

The big dps hit is taking the tick of serpent sting away.

[Pengalor]

So why are they nerfing SV so hard if BM is technically the "top" spec?

Well, to be fair, I think the big reason BM is top right now is the 4-piece which we'll obviously lose in the new raid.