The worst part of hunter changes

[zerocarbs]

Apparently I won't be able to blast people off cliffs anymore.

[Nihilan]

Are they taking the traps AND powershot from MM? I suppose we wont know until they do the talent reveal. But yes, i too will be a sad panda if i can no longer use gravity to kill other people.

Area denial via explo trapping is a clutch play in many situations.

Maybe if we're lucky though, they will fold all of the juicy entrapment and snare effects into MM rather than letting the melee spec have them.

[Keyimin]

Mere speculation ofc, but I'd be a bit surprised if something like isn't in one of the various talent trees between our usual talents, artifacts, and PVP.

[theostrichsays]

Marksmanship already has:

Lock and Load
Passive
Attach an explosive charge to Aimed Shot, dealing strong additional Fire damage to the target and all enemies within 4 yds.

As a talent, so it wouldn't be to much of a stretch to add additional gunpowder onto that arrow and blow people back, from a fantasy perspective.

[Mitters]

Not having traps as MM will be so weird in the beginning.

[zerocarbs]

BM doesn't have a knockback. Sometimes NOT having all the toys is more interesting.

That's some nice spin on what is fun.

[Deleted]

So dumb, seems like they take utility away every expansion, does not equal fun or interesting. I might not use traps in raid, but I use them all the time in the world.

[Deleted]

Actually there is a new shot for maksman that pushback people...

"Marksmanship has a new ability: Bursting Shot. Short range cone attack which knocks enemies away. It's a "get away from me" option."

[Rehija]

Let me speculate ...... the knockback will be on par or worse than typhoon...

[Saladfork]

MM will have Bursting Shot (knockback in a cone radius):
https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/sta...00189637234688

Knockbacks are a big dilemma. They're terribly strong for arena (extra interrupt: which is a HUGE deal; ruins positioning: makes certain maps more favorable than others) but really fun and hilarious for BG's.

[Nihilan]

Personally, i would rather have the current explo trap 10 times out of 10 over Typhoon mk2. What they dont seem to realize is that sometimes we want to be able to knock people in directions other than "away". Crazy right?

Oh well. Blizzard never lets us keep nice things.

[Huggykaze]

BM doesn't have a knockback. Sometimes NOT having all the toys is more interesting.

That's some nice spin on what is fun.

Aaaand, they are right.

[zerocarbs]

Aaaand, they are right.

How so? If you want to attempt to make an argument that it's being sacrificed for balance then go ahead. But don't blow smoke up my ass by saying removing fun utility makes my gameplay more interesting.

[FertsBlert]

As long as I have something that is mechanically exactly the same as Freezing trap(trap launcher) as BM, I don't care what they call it.

[Deleted]

As long as I have something that is mechanically exactly the same as Freezing trap(trap launcher) as BM, I don't care what they call it.

yeah indeed, I hope they don't take this away from BM. Explosive trap and freezing trap gone.....thats just to much. Couldn't care less for the name, visuals etc. as long as the mechanics are there

[Skayaq]

My guess is that wyvern sting becomes bm only, and will function as bms long term cc.

[Raicky]

Yeah! How dare they not give everything to all specs and make them homogenized again?!