As far as threat goes, I haven’t seen any hard evidence for anything other than a problem with Growl being starved of focus and hence going off a lot less frequently than once every 5 seconds.

I noticed that my ranged speed is no longer adjusting for my bow. It reads a flat 2.00 no matter what my bow’s speed is. This affects my damage output. I have also noticed that I am doing more damage than my bow should be doing, and my crits are hitting two to three times harder than regular damage. A physical crit is suppose to be flat out twice the damage than the normal. I’ve had three times the normal damage happen. I wonder if we’re doing more damage than we were and this is eating through aggro faster than it should.

I know we’ve all talked about how we do two or three crits and pull aggro right now, and that didn’t happen as much before. I think this may be why. I’ve also been monitoring my outright damage and it seems higher than it should be.

An autoshot critical strike damage is coming out ten to twelve points higher in damage than the maximum base hit of 40 damage times two.

Arcane shot is critting for around five points more than double its base damage level (I’m not even sure if this acts as a spell and should be doing 150% damage not 200%).

Aimed Shot is doing twice it’s damage per crit, plus around ten additional points above and beyond this. (Again, I’m not sure if this counts as a spell, though I doubt it).

I’ve had Aimed and Arcane crit back to back and pull the mob off my pet. I’m starting to wonder if some of our base damage has been altered.

I’m tired and in a bad mood, so I’m not really going to get into the same arguement as before.

The problem with this routine is, when a pet is ordered to attack a mob that’s not aggroing anything – the pet rushes to the mob and tries to get behind it, while doing so, the mob gets aggro on the pet and moves toward the pet, the pet doesn’t recognize that fact and still tries to get behind the mob, on and on, running through the whole area and aggroing on many more mobs -> the programme routine does not check for aggro until the pet reaches the mob (dumb programmer!).

* Hunter as an “Utility Class”, best joke ever!
If it where true, our traps would have their CD lowered, at least, and we should have abilities to aggro on a mob with low to no damage, so we are able to lure them into our traps.
My guess is, those clueless people at Blizzard consider our auras as a superior utility…

@Temproc:
* Getting better gear will aggravate the problem: more DPS, more crit, more AP – but not enough AP to get growl back to a useful level.

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- Blizzard nerfed growl on purpose, as I (and others) wrote several weeks ago. This is a poor attempt to stop bots.

- Their representatives on the forums are sounding more an more like those of Verant Interactive, back in the days of a Mr. McQuaid – “they never make errors”, “the customers are too dumb”, “it was an error, we fixed it (after several years)” – been there, done that!