It’s been my experience that well prepared players and those that are situationally aware are the most desired players. Because after all, dead DPS does no DPS.

I think what Blizz did with Wrath in the way that you don’t need to stack raids for max DPS anymore is a very good thing because it means you never have to bring *that guy* just because you won’t get the boss down without a second heroism, you know?

BM huntering is about fun for me. I won’t give up my hunter till he’s no longer fun. I run with good enough people that if I do my job in the raid, it doesn’t matter if I’m not doing more DPS than another mage, as long as I’m competitive. And from what I’ve been hearing, you don’t need to min/max your raid dps to succeed, you need skilled players to handle the fight mechanics. (Correct me if I’m wrong, raiders.)

In the back of my mind im semi-convinced that alot of the other players getting “beaten by 30%” in the data blizz are looking at are just BAD PLAYERS….

Atleast my alt is a rogue so i can just switch to him and go do some mega dp… /facepalm

Steady Shot – now only gains 10% of attack power as damage (down from 20%).
Serpent’s Swiftness – now only grants 2/4/6/8/10% bonus attack speed to pet.

The Steady Shot alone is about a 15% nerf to all hunters’ personal DPS.

The Volley nerf… it’s my belief that hunters should NOT be an AOE class. That should be left to the mages.

Went through the retpally nerf while Kinnavieve was leveling, and it were pretty darn harsh. Took her from being able to aggro whatever the heck she wanted, kill it and its friends, and walk away whistling, to having to pay attention to what she was doing and exercise a bit of caution. GC were a boob fer calling this “nerf to the ground, baby!” ’cause it weren’t. It were balancing things out to where they oughtta be.

Is this the same? Nope, but I think the general idea be similar. With it at least being tested on the PTR, ‘stead of going straight to live in a hotfix the way the pally nerfs were (couldn’t even wait til the next tuesday, the buggers) hopefully the final version’ll be a reasoned and fair.

Having been through the 3.02 Shadow Priest nerf, I can tell ya THAT were a NERF. Pretty much every reason ta play a spriest got chucked out the window, and then some intern got assigned the job of recreating the class as see-through mages, but with not so much sheep. That were a nerf not only to the technical abilities, but to the very fun of being shadow. Which be why so many of us quit. Pretty sure that’s not what’s going on here.

You can, if you realize that we may have to rebuild BM hunter from the ground up to work around these changes. You can, if you realize that BM hunter involves things like glyphs and pet selection and pet talent point selection and carefully fine-tuning your own talents. There may be a glass ceiling but I don’t think anyone has come close to hitting it yet, BM hunter or not.

Of course, if you’re not having fun, then that’s a different problem entirely. I will stop playing a BM hunter the day I stop having fun. That day is a long ways away.

last in pvp and last in pve

atleast rogues can open locked doors