If your playstyle involves DoT management that in itself requires DoTs to be built up for max efficiency, then this is by definition what can be called more advanced mechanics in terms of ability usage. Why? Because most specs that rely on DoTs, they are about hitting that one button, wait just a little for the cast to finish and then the DoT lands on the target. Nothing more.
Does this mean that this is how all specs and all their specific abilities work? Obviously not. But many do.
If you're still talking about BM then please stop. This thread is not about BM. This thread is not about melee Survival. And it's not about MM either.
Which is the case of every single melee spec we have, including current melee Survival.
Not sure where you got this from. The top post does not bring up anything at all really in terms of how much damage each ability should do.
Oh yes they did!
Yep, getting it back through Marksmanship is one way to do it. Although it wouldn't have the same potential as a 4th spec would.
My take on the MM route for ranged Survival can be found here(but again, the DoT spec if you ask me deserves to be it's own):
https:// eu.forums.blizzard. com/en/wow/t/we-miss-old-survival-hunter-and-why-it-should-be-back/21056/69?u=briz-zenedar
1. Idd.
2a. Generally yes(although opinions vary as people are different, and they like differents things).
2b. No one can come up with the perfect spec for everybody. The perfect spec does not exist! If you ask 1 individual they might consider a particular spec to be perfect. But that's just one person. That does not mean the next 100 people you ask love the same spec. If paid game designers had the recipe for creating perfect specs, then we wouldn't really have the number of threads arguing for the return of ranged SV would we?
Very true. New ones pop up every other day.
And if the people asking for it's return to be in the form of a 4th spec. Then what would be the actual problem?
I can see that putting it back through the MM spec, some might not like this as they prefer MM to be what it currently is.
I can very much see why those who like melee Survival, wouldn't want it to be removed. But, when we're not actually asking for this, but for a 4th spec. Why argue for it not to happen?
As far as spec uniqueness goes, you can find my comparison of the different hunter specs further up this page. It would be enough of a unique spec for it to be justified to be put into the game.
BM is not a particularly hard spec to play no.
But again, I ask you what you would consider to be difficult and not boring?
It also feels like you haven't actually read everything the spec would be about. Black Arrow as an example, in this spec wouldn't just be an ability you hit every 30sec and that would be it.
Besides, like you say yourself. It's the combination of everything that matters. You also have to count in the factor of game specific/fight specific mechanics and you have to count in all aspects of the game. PvE and PvP as well as open world content and more.
And you have to factor in the level of difficulty(LFR/Normal/HC/Mythic).
And that it(the spec) should be applicable to everyone playing the game. Not only the top players. But the new guy who started 2 weeks ago as well.