Poster: Xandarous at 4/11/2005 8:06:54 AM PDT
Subject: Cay: Please tell us what is going on. |
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The community in general is in an uproar over many things. There are way too many posts to answer individually so I am laying out what major concerns I have seen and wish for some kind of definitive answer while I wait for a GM to unstuck me from Eastern Plaguelands.
These are in no particular order since they all affect the Hunter Class significantly. And please, if you are going to post here, do it in a constructive manner.
1 - Attack Power:
There has been much concern of items and buffs that give +attack power. Certain weapons that are considered to be exclusively for Hunters such as Strikers Mark and Black Dragonscale Shoulders give +attack power and not specifically +ranged attack power. Making this Melee only defeats the purpose of these items. Melee attack power increase although beneficial to any hunter especially in PVP is more or less useless to us unless it adds to ranged as well.
I feel that +attack power should give Hunters both ranged and melee benefits. As of right now, when I equip Barbarous Blade, I get a +60 attack power to both Melee and Ranged. Trueshot Aura gives both Melee and Ranged attack power. Why would you have that and take away ranged from +attack power items?
3 - %Crit Chance:
I spotted a post about making +%crit items melee only. I personally feel this is not true, but if it is, then Blizzard needs to reevaluate the Hunter class. Just like +attack power items, this should not be changed. What is the point of making mail or any other item have +%crit if it does not work for ranged as well.
4 - Defense, Chance to hit, and so on for ranged attacks:
What is the happening here? It honestly looks like Blizzard is actively trying to make Hunters the most useless class in the game. I watched a video of a Hunter shooting at a warrior and having 30-40% of the shots getting deflected or missed. I know there are details about the vid that lacking, but we need a solid answer on what the developers are doing to us.
Personally, I feel our ranged attacks should work in a similar fashion as magical attacks. They should bypass some armor but not all like say a fireball would. Please tell us what is happening here and if it is true then what the logic is behind it. I currently like things the way they are. Not sure why it needs to change.
5 - Broken Tooth and Pets:
Not sure if this was answered yet, but I heard it had a very nice attack speed. What is the word on that? Are pet attack speeds going to be made the same? What are some new pet abilities going to be beyond what is in the next patch? Please throw us a bone here (pun intended).
That is the list I have come up with from the posts I have seen. Try not to add more new posts but add comments here. Thank you.
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Poster: Caydiem at 4/11/2005 12:33:29 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Cay: Please tell us what is going on. |
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Some of these have been answered in other threads.
1) https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-hunter&t=256121&tmp=1#post256121
2) There is no 2.
3) I'm looking into this one.
4) The change in the patch should not decrease your DPS in PvE play whatsoever. It is a change in PvP play against players with a high Defense rating, but again, we're looking into the bonus being granted by +Defense items, as they may be too strong with the bug fix.
5) https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-hunter&t=238028&tmp=1#post238028
- Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager
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Poster: Caydiem at 4/11/2005 12:42:50 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Cay: Please tell us what is going on. |
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I believe those skills you name are at least partly tied to Defense, folks.
Now that said... I'll pass it along to the development team.
And if you folks feel that this change is affecting PvE fighting as well, please provide hard numbers so I can take them to the development and QA teams. The test realm is there -- show me so I can show them. :)
- Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager
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