August News/Discussion

[Concillian]

Yeah, I'm a bit excited and worried, too. The last time hunters had anything this shiny was in the couple weeks before TBC launched. Then due to the whining about lvl 70 abilities at 60, we got nerfed so hard it took us the better part of a year to stop being the joke of TBC.

hunters were the joke of arena, but of TBC as a whole? I mean when Gruul was "the DPS check boss" Hunters were consistently doing very well if not top on DPS... now that Brutallus is "the DPS check boss" Hunters are pretty consistently competing for and often winning the #1 top DPS spot. Hunters have always excelled at soloing / farming. I'm failing to see where hunters had it rough in TBC, except for arena.

Please tell me what I'm missing here, but hunters have beeen pretty good all throughout TBC, when looked at from a PvE perspective (which I'm assuming is the perspective you are using). I think mages are much more the joke of TBC. They went from top of the heap on ranged DPS to bottom of the barrel. It was especially ironic that fire was the best raiding spec, and when TBC started, they were virtually required to be spellfire tailors... but that required farming primal fire from mobs immune to fire and primal mana from mobs that are generally pretty caster un-friendly.

note: I have neither a hunter nor a mage that are over level 30, so I have nothing invested in either class, just making observations that I think you might be overexaggerating that hunters were the 'joke of TBC" at any given time. They have always been the butt of jokes due to the general populace of hunters ("huntards",) but people who played hunters well did well with them (in PvE) from the start of TBC to the end.