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To say that hunters are overpowered is a misstatement. To say that BM hunters in general are OP is also incorrect. We have 3 contributing factors to topping the DPS meters. An overpower tanking pet that does way more damage that it's supposed to. I'm talking about the scorpid. We have 1 specific BM spec which is 50/21/0 which gives us about 40% up time on Bestial Wrath over a 4 minute fight which is insane. We also have a bugged Aspect of the Beast that's giving pets 20% AP instead of the advertised 10%. If you take into account the Glyph of Aspect of the Beast also gives 4% more AP to pets instead of the advertised 2%. All of these things whether used by themselves or all together contribute to hunters being top of the DPS. If you take the 2nd best hunter spec(imo, of course) 53/11/7 and a non-scorpid pet, He will not outperform a Warrior or Unholy DK on fair fight.
ALL of the things I mentioned are being nerfed. Readiness no longer affects bestial wrath, Aspect of the beast is fixed, Scorpids are nerfed. I'm definitely not complaining about them. The problem is they're also nerfing non-"exploiting" hunters by reducing the damage of Steady shot by roughly 35% and reducing pet haste by 50% and pet damage modifiers by 10%.
Another thing is that pet management is a pain in the ass that other classes don't have to deal with. You think it's hard to get out of a fissure when it's a glowing red circle right under your feet, Try getting your pet out of it when he's on the other side of Kel'thazud and out of your sight. Our pets also don't get the gimmick buffs from Loatheb or Thaddius which puts us roughly 3k dps behind other dps. Other fights, like Malygos our pet bugs out. They can't attack Scions, they can't attack necro lords, They won't reliably stand in static fields, they get bugged on the cyclones and need to be pulled back. They get insta-gibbed out of nowhere on Anub'Rekhan, 4 horsemen, Grobbulus, Sapphiron, Kel, and Heigan and 2-3 drake Sartharion. When our pet dies. It's a straight up 60% damage reduction until it's rezzed which is 4 seconds of zero DPS just to rez our now-unbuffed and unhappy pet.
I'm sorry but hunters should not be judged by perfect condition fights like patchwerk and we should not be judged by specific specs, pets and abilities that are overpowered and/or glitched. It's no different than 5 HAT rogues in a raid all pulling 7k+ dps on every fight. The only difference is that hunter's big dps doesn't require 4 other hunters to do it. It's broken and it's being fixed, the rest of the nerfs, steady shot, pet haste and dps% were too much.
It's true that hunter's don't scale with gear very well/ I dominated DPS when we first got into naxx but as my raid mates and I geared up at the same time, their dps got higher and higher while my DPS has barely moved. Now I'm pushing hard, cuting corners and risking my pet's life at every corner just to stay in the top 5 which consists of a fury war, arms war, unholy DK and Mage. I'm one of, if not the best geared person in my guild and Without "exploiting" OP and soon to be nerfed specs and pets, I would fall out of the top 5, guaranteed.
I'ved typed too much.. gotta go raid now. 3 drake Sartharion sucks.
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