Allakhazam poster Tabstopper has posted in our hunter forum regarding some official upcoming hunter changes. Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street outlined them on the O-Boards, noting that "Hunters of all specs, and particularly Beastmaster, are doing too much damage in PvE."
We want to be careful not to hurt hunter dps too much in PvP, so we鈥檙e taking most of the damage out of Steady Shot and Volley. Beastmaster hunters are in addition losing some of their pet dps. We still want BMs to have the best pets, but pet dps numbers are a little high at the moment. We are also still concerned about hunter survivability in PvP and taking the opportunity to jazz up Deterrence into something that looks and plays a little more interesting.
Ghostcrawler lists 13 changes that will hopefully be hitting the PTR soon so players can test them before they go live. You can read the list below and you can discuss them in Tabstopper's thread.
No tag for this post.These are not all of the changes we are working on for hunters, but those changes we feel are ready for testing. We hope to get these changes up on the PTR so players will have a chance to test them out and respond before they go live.
1) Steady Shot 鈥?now only gains 10% of attack power as damage (down from 20%).
2) Volley 鈥?reduced the damage by about 30% for all ranks. Note that AE damage from many classes is very high right now and we are looking at all of them. Volley in particular had reached the point where some hunters were using it to the exclusion of most other attacks.
3) Readiness 鈥?no longer affects the cooldown of Bestial Wrath.
4) Deterrence 鈥?has been completely overhauled. It now allows you to deflect 100% of incoming melee or spell damage for 5 seconds, but prevents you from attacking while active. You still must be facing the attacker to deflect the damage (this is a limitation we are trying and might end up removing). 60 sec cooldown.
5) Kill Shot 鈥?cooldown reduced to 15 sec (from 35 sec).
6) Kindred Spirits 鈥?now only grants 3/6/9/12/15% pet damage.
7) Serpent鈥檚 Swiftness 鈥?now only grants 2/4/6/8/10% bonus attack speed to pet.
8) All hunter pet abilities with a cooldown longer than 30 sec have been moved off the global cooldown.
9) Growl鈥?threat generation increased by 20% (same for Voidwalker Torment).
10) Call of the Wild 鈥?now benefits only the hunter and his or her pet.
11) Rake and Scorpid Poison 鈥? slightly nerfed to bring them into line with other pet abilities.
12) Spirit Strike 鈥?reduced the period on the dot so it will work better with Longevity.
Improved Tracking 鈥?now benefits damage to all included creature types as long as you are tracking one of them. You don鈥檛 have to swap around what you are tracking as much.
13) Aspect of the Wild 鈥?now raid-wide.