Ojimaru, you should be the next TotalBiscuit

Us survival hunters are getting Ghostcrawler's nerfbat.



/cower

I'm guessing they will revert most of the hunter nerfs by the end of PTR.

Sinestra dps charts just came back, and not surprisingly, survival hunters aren't even top. More like middle of the table, not even in the top half.

Hunters are top on some fights, but not on a very commanding lead.

This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jan 24 2011, 12:44 PM

Its a nerf, if u take some time to understand it. Buff to icelance, but nerf to frost mastery. Its a nerf.

its based on the fight...
if u actually read about the fight mechanics for sinestra (especially on the damage booster like http://www.wowhead.com/spell=92955 etc), it is no surprise that their hunters are not topping especially with their strat (mostly hunters are kiting the Shadow Orbs - Two orbs appear near two players. They need to kite the orbs near each other outside of the raid or do 75k damage to anyone in range. These appear once every 30 seconds in Phase 1 and Phase 3. The two kiters need to kite these for about 15 seconds.)...
not to mention the p3 have 100% haste which benefit casters more than surv hunters...

other fights surv hunter are still topping and for that alone, they are still getting the nerfbat...
1 fight is not enough justification and blizz have enuff numbers to warrant the nerf...
one of the best measurement would be on BH where it is a tank spank fight most of the time for range...

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Jan 24 2011, 04:44 PM

Erm, so how do you explain DKs being top two in every fight? Nobody complained when DKs were top dps (for a very long time I might add, even now in cata) in WotLK. MM hunters got lucky with armor penetration, though now the stat has since been removed. Blizz has a very bad track record with balancing classes, you know this when blizz nerfed BM hunters in TBC to oblivion, and BM has never recovered since.

Haste actually benefits hunters a lot, from cobra shot cast time to focus regeneration. Cobra Shot itself is among the top two of a survival hunter's damaging attacks.

Well, now if they fixed the first five bugs, I would be a happy huntress.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1827254383#1

dks getting nerfed as well that's y lol (see the link i've linked b4 with hunters being top 3 in almsot everyfight alongside dks)...
and DK are doing sick dps due to the fight mechanic (the reflect)...
try reading on the fight and u can see why is it so...

and since when TBC hunters are bad?
hunters were topping DPS as BM during those times especially brutalus (a good dps measure)...
even kiljaeden kills had BM hunters and they are doing very good dps...

and no haste doesnt help hunters as much as casters as for cata, casters are forged to get lots of hit and most of them sacrificing haste...
with the amount of haste buffed in the encounter, the scaling increases more (especially dots which procs nukes)...

This post has been edited by evofantasy: Jan 24 2011, 10:14 PM

PTR Update Jan 24

Heard MM hunter spec is doing too much single target dps atm, even more so than other class/specs.

/waits anxiously for revert of survival hunter nerfs

This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jan 26 2011, 09:54 AM

are the new alchemist trinkets available yet?

On the PTR? Presumably yes.

OI BAZZA.

Recognize me?

E: On topic, good news that Balance is getting the shift-out mechanic back, but Feral's still on the amputee table. I'm leveling a Feral druid right now and the shift-out mechanic is PRICELESS to our survival in PvP.

This post has been edited by Sup: Jan 27 2011, 11:21 AM

nvm I saw the launcher update this morning and assumed it patched...

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Added on January 27, 2011, 11:22 amhey sup what server you on

This post has been edited by bazza: Jan 27 2011, 11:22 AM

hey Bazza, is this the bazza i just chat with yesterday?

yeah you're the DK or warlock?

Im the DK. The lock is my brother.

Cheers

I'm on Lake Wintergrasp Alliance and Stormscale Horde, but on trial and it expired. Trying to get the card and when I get it I'll ask for a guild invite on Stormscale (to bazza's guild)

Omg, this reminds me.

I need to tame Ghostcrawler & Sambas next. Tamed Terrorpene a while back.

what new patch is applied?

Couldn't find any update notes besides some Hotfixes (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1232869#blog)

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Added on January 31, 2011, 9:27 amJanuary 28 Updates

PvP

• Tol Barad
  • Attacking forces will receive a 200% capture speed bonus when they control 2 keeps.
  • Defending forces will receive a 200% capture speed bonus when they control all 3 keeps.
  • Daily quest creatures, herbs, minerals, etc. will only spawn when Tol Barad is in the quest phase between battles. There will be 5-minute and 1-minute warnings before the quest phase ends. The quest phase ends 15 minutes before the battle for Tol Barad begins and queuing is made available. At that time any players in the daily micro dungeons will be ported just outside. This does not apply to Tol Barad Peninsula or the daily quests there.
  Mages
  • Fireball mana cost has been reduced to 9% of base mana. (was reduced by 25% original cost)
  • Frostfire Bolt mana cost has been reduced to 9% of base mana.
  Priests
  • Strength of Soul now occurs when the priest casts Inner Focus on oneself, rather than Power Word: Shield. In addition, Strength of Soul now also causes the priest to become immune to silence, interrupt, and dispel effects for 2/4 seconds after using Inner Focus.
  Professions
  • Rare fishing poles now have a chance to be found in the Bag of Fishing Treasures earned via the Stormwind and Orgrimmar Fishing daily quests.
  • Wrath of the Lich King purple, green, and orange gems have been increased in cost to match red, blue, and yellow epic gems (220 Justice Points). Burning Crusade epic gems have been increased in cost to match the most expensive Wrath of the Lich King gems.
  Items
  • Normal PvE helms (item level 359) no longer have a chance to drop from Nefarian or Cho'gall on Heroic difficulty. Instead, the Heroic PvE helm and shoulder pieces (item level 372) only require their associated Crown/Shoulders of the Forlorn tokens to purchase, and do not require players to obtain the normal helms or shoulders first.

This post has been edited by Ojimaru: Jan 31 2011, 09:27 AM