Comments on: Stat Transfer Looking Grim…

By: bigmathunter

bigmathunter — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:01:55 +0000

not sure if you check here but looks like the level 1 raids are done for in 3.3
from patch notes.
Players below level 10 may not join raids.

By: Sylrus

Sylrus — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:22:01 +0000

Oh I’m not denying a dps increase is nice, but it smacks of a cheap band aid to appease hunters rather than a willingness to address the more serious problems of the class, namely ammo and pets (I spent 51 points in BM to get a devilsaur, only to be outdone by a wolf and have the lowest hunter raid dps? Seriously?) Now maybe Vael’s right and it just means they’ve decided to move all these changes to Cataclysm, but in my mind the more major changes they roll into the expansion, the higher the likelihood that they’ll get it wrong and screw up the class we love (replacing mana with energy = DO NOT WANT).

By: Bindura

Bindura — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:33:33 +0000

Just a note: Kripparrian has uploaded a new vid of his top dps parse on Heroic Beasts. A couple things to watch for are the cycling through of stings etc on multiple mobs and at 5.42 he uses disengage to give himself space after being charged by Icehowl.
The disengage has me stumped… I’ll have to try strafing; jumping and hitting it to see where I go. Thought I’d give you the heads up

By: Armin

Armin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:51:06 +0000

Froist, I’m not saying this because of a ‘told you so’, but I mentioned earlier already there wasn’t so “much” talk at all about stats transfer. Other than some vage mentioning that they liked the idea it, pretty much all the talk on fora was actually a lot of coppying from one blue posting in the end of summer. And even that said they were thinking on doing that and would see how much they would get done. And that ArP was hard so probably would fall out. I feartoo many of us – including myself – were hyping eachother up.

The only confirmation of actual transfers being done was for resillience. Which even for PvP hunters is pretty much useless as any sane player goes for the master.

So this leaves pets still becoming less and less importtant with each patch … ;-(

It seems that it is not too much a priority. Or it is harder, because they don’t do a fixed transfer (like eliminating pets agility crit in favor for ours) but some complex formular where they mix it. In that case it isn’t even certain a transfer is a dps boost …

By: Ghumbador

Ghumbador — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:29:36 +0000

Actually, I’m not surprised in anyway that the big two changes seem not to come. Alas, I really do not want to go back to the days of the two shot BM rotation monster dps.

By: Rhinochaser

Rhinochaser — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:51:03 +0000

Wow this is bad news for me. Im like the only BM hunter on my server who raids BM. Or so it seems. I have always held my own but lately I swear my DPS is falling off a bit. I thought some kind of ninja nerf hit but who knows.
Sad news indeed. I have been playing around with MM lately. I even built up a second set of gear and gemmed it all agility as my BM gear has all attack power gems. On the test dummy my DPS in MM is better with my BM gear than the gear gemmed for agility?? You figure that one out.
Very sad and thinking of working on my Warrior and DK as my hunter seems to be stuck in a rut.

Rhino

By: Chimy

Chimy — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:34:00 +0000

I think it would be nice to see stat transfer affect an exotic pet the most. Exotic pets are so deep in the tree, you’d think the BM hunters would get some sort of massive bonus to dps or survivability for being *able* to tame an exotic pet plus having to go out and find one to tame and level it. I’ve never used BM, but it seems like if they’re going to have a talent tree, they might as well make it viable.

By: Arthemystia

Arthemystia — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:05:28 +0000

Dps boosts are always nice, so alas. But with my primary “news” interest being tanking improvements, I was unconvinced that tanks could stack avoidance and such without sacrificing too much threat. So the few changes being implemented (90% AoE avoidance without spec’ing for it = drool) are just fine by me.

By: quivering

quivering — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:01:15 +0000

weak i was looking forward to it. every time mmo updates, looking for hunter stuff, and pet stats never there. oooooooh well :\

By: KahliTorah

KahliTorah — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:39:33 +0000

regarding the ammo changes. Personally I’m not looking forward to it. While Using a non-consumable ammo would be a nice boulder off the bank account, the talk around making it a drop off raid bosses is quite unfair. I’m typically always one step behind on raid progression, therefore usually never acquiring the BiS gear at the time of the content. This will mean unless I kcik it up a cog or two and start downing the top content, I will always be significantly behind on dps than others.

Also, I don’t even want to think what the PvP hunters are going to think about it. I do some offhand PvP myself and I don’t like the idea of being screwed on damage in bg’s because I wasn’t able to pick up the top notch ammo from the latest raid. Not to mention the people who play strictly for PVP and barely raid at all. That kind of a change I find is unfair because it forces a person into raiding for the sake of having the top notch ammo for their arena team and whatnot. Unless they make the same ammo available for the cost of Arena points/team rating then I foresee a lot of disgruntled pvp hunters in the future.