I noticed that many of you miss the old Survival spec, and that some of you really like the new survival. Personally i do like them both and i also like the idea of playing as a Dark Ranger! So let survival be whatever it is and revive old survival spec in a new skin with lots of dark flavour!
Dark Ranger Specialization:
Mastery: Dark Quiver:
Your ranged attacks have a x% chance to fire two additional shadowy arrows and your shadow damage is increased by x%.
Haunting Banshee
30 focus | 60sec cooldown
Send forth a banshee to attack your target over the next 15 sec.
If the target dies while under attack, Haunting Banshee cooldown is reset.
Curse of Darkness
35 Focus | 24sec cooldown
Afflicts the target with a powerful curse, dealing damage damage over 20 seconds. Your Curse of Darkness periodic damage has a 20% change to trigger Overflowing Quiver, causing your next two Withering Fire to cost no focus and trigger no cooldown. When Curse of Darkness is dispelled, its cooldown is reset.
Withering Fire
15 focus | 6sec cooldown | 2 charges
You fire an cursed arrow at the enemy target, dealing damage initially and every second for 3 seconds.
Black Arrow
30 Focus
Fire an instant shot that causes shadow damage and afflicts the target with Black Arrow.
Black Volley
40 Focus
Fire a volley of black arrows that cause shadow damage and afflicts all targets with Black Arrow.
Black Arrow (debuff)
Black Arrow deals high DoT damage over time and Black Arrow critical strikes have a 30% to stun the target for 1 second.
Shadow Dagger
20 focus 15sec cd
You hurl a Shadow dagger at the target dealing high damage and reduces enemy movement speed by 50% for 3 seconds.
Shadow dagger jumps to the next target in 12 yards range dealing 25% damage. Can not jump back to a previous target.
Unstable Poison (passive)
Targets afflicted with Black Arrow that are hit by Shadow dagger explode for shadow damage.
Centering Shot (focus regen)
2.5 sec cast time | no cooldown
Line up a shot at the target that deals physical damage and focuses you, instantly generating 50 Focus.
You can not move while casting Centering Shot)
So basicly its the same as the old Survival rotation, abilities and spellnames inspired by Heroes of the Storm: Sylvanas.
Some minor things added for flavor, like Shadow Dagger but that is also inspired by Glaive Toss.
Personally I do think it's unique enough to be added next to Marksmanship. Also never understood blizzard's decision to make survival a melee spec, but okay there it was.. In my opinion it just lacked a good class fantasy theme.
Would you play Dark Ranger / old survival?