Comments on: Preview: Hunters and Patch 3.3

By: lantere

lantere — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:20:24 +0000

Waaah!
Pike’s got a DA!
*Rushes off to DA to watch you.*

In other Hunter-ish news:
My Windserpent (cunningly called “Windserpent”) seems to be a bit more potent than usual.

…could just be me playing better, but I doubt that…

By: Guntitan

Guntitan — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:54:54 +0000

4 points lets us get the better talents. Don’t forget. It is a buff to our pet damage.

By: Anj

Anj — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:15:27 +0000

Surely Culling The Herd is more of a buff to BM because of the crazy amount of pet crits that spec generates? Maybe I’m wrong but it certainly *seems* that way.

By: Kelesaria

Kelesaria — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:15:50 +0000

Call me crazy, but the Call Stabled Pet change has me excited. Finally Kel can grab whatever pet she feels like, and not worry about her player suddenly changing her mind and wanting Loq or Sabre instead of Tyran. >.>
Misdirect is gonna be nice, but I do wish it lasted slightly longer. With the GCD, 4 seconds can only get 2 or 3 shots off, depending on your haste (and lag). Though I guess that’s not much different from the current version.
I’m also drooling over the Wolverine Bite change. Maybe my cunning pets will get to come to raids, and do comparable damage.
The whole Cower change is kind of ‘meh’. All it really means for me is I only have to click once now, to turn Growl off, instead of twice. (Growl off, Cower on.) Sabre likes to pull aggro with Cower turned -on-, so he won’t miss it much.

By: Rades

Rades — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:33:48 +0000

This may be an odd question, but it’s one I haven’t seen brought up ANYWHERE about the change to cower…what happens if you needed that threat reduction for your pet? I’ve ran heroics (as BM) and despite misdirecting to the tank, my pet slowly creeps up on the threat meter and sometimes I have to manually pull him back so he doesn’t pull aggro. I mean, I can feign death, but my pets have no such luxury. True, properly geared tanks shouldn’t have this problem, but when you’re pugging the daily heroic, sometimes you’re running with inexperienced or not-as-geared tanks. I’m a little concerned.

By: Pathis

Pathis — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:31:04 +0000

Lots of decent “quality of life” tweaks, but nothing too drastic.

My bear tank is really excited about the MD change. Finally no more “click off that MD, I can get you more threat” tells before I pull Ony!

By: Nasthian

Nasthian — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:18:51 +0000

Hrm, no, I’m just seeing it pop over my head when I cast it. No problem, now that I’ve done it with and without my macro, I know that’s working as intended, and good lord, misdirect to volley is potent stuff.

By: Cinder

Cinder — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:48:49 +0000

They changed MD to be more like a rogue’s killing spree, which currently puts the icon over both your head and the target. Try it and see if that is what is going on!

By: Snug

Snug — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:24:15 +0000

=0 This patch makes me wish my main was still my hunter. Sadly it’s in the “alt” zone now but still play it sometimes when I want to shoot stuff >:3 – As far as your opinions on the changes, I agree with pretty much everything you said soo short comment is short ^_^” Mostly just wanted to say I love your artwork style, looking forward to following you on dA.

By: Zhire

Zhire — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:25:45 +0000

I’m interested to see how wolverine bite plays out; perhaps it will make cunning pets marginally more viable. I’d love to raid with a windserpent or dragonhawk.