Is survival hunter the worst class revamp ever made?

[spalernTJ]

Survival hunter is one of the most fun specs atm, it's just got a ton of stigma surrounding it.

[Big Mama]

I enjoy survival hunter a lot. I created a completely new character because of it. I always loved Rexxar and the survival gameplay reminds me of him. I know that he is actually a beast master, but he doesn't really fit that sparkly ghostly shiny pet collector kind of hunter that we actually know from the game. He is a survival hunter through and through and I loved and enjoyed every second of leveling my mag'har orc hunter that was loosely based on Rexxar. F*** the raids.

[Delekii]

They changed a ranged to a melee, of course its the worst revamp ever. They could have made it a tank, or even a healer.. but to add ANOTHER melee to an already ridiculously oversaturated spec type with no relevant utility or desirable unique abilities that its ranged counterpart doesn't bring is mind-bogglingly stupid.

[Shadesmarr]

It certainly has the lowest play percentage out of all revamped classes..

[oplawlz]

It was a poor solution for blizzards weird gear changes over the years. Hunter was just a better class when they had melee weapons baseline.

[shise]

I hope that they revert it to how it used to be, not this melee stupid thing, but range.

[Evaddon]

Nah its a fun spec, its just doesn't compare to other melee and what other melee can do with ease while,
as Survival you have to actually TRY that much harder to pull off what other melee specs can do with a press of a button. THAT is the downfall and why its not picked over other melee because a good survival is rare and far inbetween, and its a spec that generally needs your full attention to pull off what it can do...plus its a melee spec, in a already saturated mDPS group

But the sad thing is, its mainly only disliked because its not "range" even though it has the best melee range capabilities

[Ealyssa]

It's a very well designed spec actually, plays well, is fun.

The only thing puting the spec behind is the dogshit DPS it outputs and the strange behavior of Blizzard of not giving a fuck (like a few other specs tho, feral or Enh shaman are in the same "no fucks given" place)

[Spacewalrus2010]

Survival hunter legion was the worst.

Love it currently.

[Kaver]

The main problem with survival is that as a melee spec it lacks defensive abilities. A Rogue for example got much more survivability.

[Kithelle]

I played it religiously during Legion. It became my new favorite Spec/Class.

BfA changes reverting it back to a Semi-Ranged basically ruined the spec fantasy, been Marks since.

I don't think Survival had issues as much as players had issues with Survival. And now it's both.

Safe to say raids played a part...why take a Hunter as melee when you can take them as ranged?

[Aresk]

Survival is the only hunter spec I've really enjoyed during BFA, though granted I haven't really played hunter since TBC. I like it better than both the Combat Rogue and Demo Warlock revamps, which caused me to completely abandon those characters. Pure DPS classes are all alts for me, though, so I'm not looking for raid or M+ or PVP competitiveness, just enjoyability and class fantasy.

[Ealyssa]

Safe to say raids played a part...why take a Hunter as melee when you can take them as ranged?

Because the guy like playing melee more than ranged ?
Was never a problem for enh shamans or feral druids...

[loras]

For me it's mostly just not being used to the spec fantasy, and thus having no characters in mind on which i might want to check the specc out unless it were FotM OP.

[Beastiel]

it could really benefit from a class specific spear animation or two. I like the concept but it feels really unsatisfying to play.

[MrKnubbles]

I really liked Survival in Legion. Not so much in BfA. Well, I haven't liked how most classes play in BfA so there's that.

[hulkgor]

I don't think so.

Played it a bunch in Legion and had a blast. It surely was a very complex rotation\prio system , but was very rewarding when played properly.

People just hate it because they have the notion that hunters have to be a ranged class, not because of the spec itself.

If directly compared to other melee classes, sure it's lackluster.

[Saltysquidoon]

Because the guy like playing melee more than ranged ?
Was never a problem for enh shamans or feral druids...

Enhance and Feral were brought to mythic raids three and seven times less than their ranged counterparts respectively (not even counting tanks and heal spec representation). The enhance or feral player might be your off-tank or and off heals so they can get prio by leveraging that chip.

Hunters are always dps so survival is always an objective downgrade with no bargaining power, it's no accident its the lowest parsing spec in the game

[ZazuuPriest]

Insanity Shadowpriest. I might have said that on this thread already im not sure. But they destroyed (personal opinion i know) shadow priest when they came out with that garbo

[Katchii]

I actually thoroughly enjoyed the new Survival Hunter. It's really fun to play.