Comments on: WotLK Beta Build 8820 – Hunter Notes

By: Mania

Mania — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:49:19 +0000

By the way, Ceron posted links to a bunch of great screenshots of new tamable creatures in a comment on (and I reproduced them with his permission in) the Liveblogging 8820 thread.

By: Seidouyumi

Seidouyumi — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:33:30 +0000

You are most welcome Mania. There are a huge number of them out. From the looks of them, Glyphs will not affect Hunter Pet skills directly, but they will affect how Hunter’s and pets work together. There was one more that does affect Pets though-

Glyph of Aspect of the Beast- Increases the attack power bonus of Aspect of the Beast for you and your pet by 2%.

By: Mania

Mania — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:27:24 +0000

I missed the glyphs. Interesting! Thanks, Seidouyumi.

By: Yossir

Yossir — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:22:14 +0000

Palladiamors-

I’m assuming you’re a BM hunter, so if you really thinkg Scatter Shot should be baseline, then maybe Intimidation should be baseline too. >:)

By: Seidouyumi

Seidouyumi — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:20:52 +0000

There is some not so direct news on Hunters via the Profession of Inscription. They have added a huge number of new Glyphs for Hunters. There are way too many to just cut, paste, and list though. Some of them provide synergy between different skills, or reduce cool downs.

Three I found interesting are:

Glyph of Hunter’s Mark- Increases your attack power bonus from Hunter’s Mark by 20%

Glyph of Arcane Shot- Your Arcane Shot refunds 20% of its mana if one of your stings is active on the target.

Glyph of Beastial Wrath- Decreases the cooldown of your Beastial Wrath by 20 seconds.

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:48:12 +0000

Cast time on Steady has been 2 seconds since Wrath alpha – the only thing that is new in this build is that they mentioned it in the patch notes. It’s a consequence of the unlinking change: old 1.5 second Steady Shot cast time + the old 0.5 second Auto Shot cast time = new 2.0 second Steady Shot cast time.

Also, if they hadn’t increased the Steady Shot cast time, it would have been a major relative nerf to BM hunters (since keeping the old cast time with the unlinking change would have drastically lowered the value of Improved Aspect of the Hawk and Serpent’s Swiftness).

By: Pike

Pike — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:35:04 +0000

New Steady Shot… wow… so hard to wrap my head around that. Gonna feel weird!

Lovin’ the new Distracting Shot though.

By: Palladiamors

Palladiamors — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:16:04 +0000

I’d rather have scatter shot baseline, Yossir. And the steady shot cast time was made to help balance the lack of clipping. Don’t ask me how that makes sense in their heads, Kill Command already got changed because of that.

By: Yossir

Yossir — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:07:52 +0000

I’ve seen the new survival talents already but that doesn’t mean I’m any less happy/excited about getting them. And does anyone know what Trap Mastery does now.

But just out of curiousity, does aspect of the beast still have its anti-tracking effect or did it lose it?

That irritates me about the cast-time on Steady Shot.

And that’s cool about the wasps just being regular too. I thought it would be unfair for Blizzard to make the only ‘new’ pets tamable for just one group of hunters.

One more thing- if Blizzard made Master’s Call and Deterrence baseline, shouldn’t they make Aimed Shot baseline too?

By: Seidouyumi

Seidouyumi — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:46:02 +0000

Woah, Rhinos. RUN!

Sorry, I’m in a silly mood, watching a TV show online (well listening to it), and doing some of my own writing.