Hunter "BUG" x2 since 3.03

#0 - Nov. 6, 2008, 2:52 p.m.
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I tried to look for any references to these two issues me and a cpl friends were finding out yesterday, but we seemed to have ALL had the same issue and even when asking outside hunters they were surprised to see the same.

Issue#1:

Volley seems Broken ATM. I am under the impression as I aggro and hold many mobs (or single) and shooting/Casting "Volley" (a semi basic kinda channeling hit) I should still be able to auto shoot my tabbed target regardless of where it is as long as it's in range and tgt'd. After testing on NPC'csAND the tgt dummies in org the Graphic SHOWS shots going, but no hits... kinda like goin through the motions of shooting but with no resulting damage.

Issue#2:

51 point Pet Advantage... I , as was many other hunters, was excited about the new exotic pets and their intended higher DPS as a perc from going into that portion of a hunter tree/spec. I understand the re-arranging of pet abilities and dmg (er CAT) and such, but heres my issue and why I dumped 51 point ATM. Me and a friend spent 45 minutes pulling out ALL our pets and comparing DPS and DMG done... Understandably I was under the impression there was an advantage to having a Devilsaur as a pet with it's alleged higher pet dps. After running ALL pets through both SHOT supported and solo we came to the conclusion that the cat still out DPS's the dino by our tests at least 5+%. Even with the possibility of Focus starvation as a contributing factor... we found that NOT to be an issue as I regularly had 3x stacks of Monsterous Bite NOT shot supported and although it did periodically dip to 1-2 stack unsupported... I had zero issues when shot supported keeping it stacked and refreshed without focus starvation being an issue.


Thanks for the time and if neone else seems to have these issues I can't see them being a "hiccup" as we spen the better part of over an hour playing with the dummies and NPC mobs.

As a result I went back to 50/11 since a bit of a benefit to focus far outweighs the non payoff for the fifty first point so i can have a pet that just looks different but has no advantage or eve match for my cat and it's already semi-dmg nerf.

Mulisha
#6 - Nov. 6, 2008, 4:58 p.m.
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1) That is by design. Even if it wasn't by design, the current implementation is a good idea because Volley does so much damage now.

2) We made a big pass on pet dps for 3.0.3 so I'm not sure if your tests are reflecting those changes or not. Cats are still a good dps pet, but they shouldn't flat out beat every exotic. The exotic balance is obviously tricky. BM of all hunters shouldn't be forced to only be able to pick from the relatively small pool of exotic pets.
#47 - Nov. 8, 2008, 7:44 a.m.
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Q u o t e:
GC, I never saw a reply on the thread about volley giving excessive durability hits to ranged weapons.


Yes, this is a bug.