HUNTERS: why the stealth nerf?

#0 - Feb. 4, 2009, 6:36 a.m.

I don't understand why explosive shot took such a massive stealth nerf. Exact same gear, 300 less damage per tick since last night. Why stealth nerf hunters when arcane mages and rogues can kill a 900 res healer in 1 gcd?

Ghostcrawler

#82 - Feb. 4, 2009, 9:09 p.m.

We made a hotfix recently to lower the coefficient of Explosive Shot. Sorry we didn't get a chance to announce the change ahead of time. We don't typically do patch notes for hotfixes so we don't have a system in place to always broadcast these before they happen.

We are in the process of making some changes to get damage done more in parity (in PvP and PvE). If there are other classes far ahead of you on the damage meters, chances are good they will see some nerfs to their damage soon too.

Overall, we are trying to make changes in a more timely manner so that players won't feel like they are stuck with a bug or other issue forever. We won't be able to get every issue fixed overnight, but it's a start.

Ghostcrawler

#90 - Feb. 4, 2009, 9:18 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Ok where is the un nerf for BM then since you want to fix issues in a timely manner.

Soon. I can't tell you a date, but it won't be long.

Ghostcrawler

#245 - Feb. 5, 2009, 12:15 a.m.

This forum is not an appropriate place for QQ. Several players who came here just to vent or insult Blizzard have been banned.

Please try to not ruin these forums for players who like to communicate in this format. The alternative is to go back to announcements of class changes through patch notes with very little communication in the interim and only one-way communication from the developers.

Ghostcrawler

#355 - Feb. 5, 2009, 5:42 a.m.

Q u o t e:
this type of horrible communication and effort lead me to believe you'all are as confused as i feared.
The 3.1 changes will be horribly tested and end up just pissing people off.
you guys really are terrible at qa and testing....do any of you actually play the game?

Q u o t e:
IF GC and the devs were actually interested in rebalancing pve dps they'd be hitting up multiple classes, not just revisting Hunters every other week. Ofcourse being flat out lied to is old hat for anyone who's played a Hunter longer than a year. Oh well, I guess it'll be back to the pre BC days when Hunters had to perform "favors" for the raid leader to get a spot.

We have no problem with you disagreeing with changes or offering constructive criticism of your class in general. That is why we made these forums. However, players posting garbage like this will be banned.