What the tweak is, I’m not sure. Some of the abilities need to be moved down lower in the trees, some things like Hunters sucking at Melee, could giving them more armor make a difference in this? And yeah, sure it would, but for PvE their armor is fine, cause the pet growls the hunter feigns and the mobs are back on the pet, but for PvP they suck. Silencing Shot/Tranquilizing shot are good if they are taken quick enough, but the warlock sneaking up behind me fears me, DotS me and I’m dead before I even get two shots off. arggh! Beastial Wrath/Beast Within still have to cast before trauma occurs. PvP as a hunter is really frustrating. I think improving the traps and making a talent for aimed traps would be amazing for hunters, and why can’t MM Hunters learn cower or something? disengage launching me over cliffs >.< feign death with it’s lengthy cool down sheesh. my pet who I almost ALWAYS want to have threat has cower on automatic *rolleyes* so I have to turn it off, but I can’t have cower? O.O and who decided to take away scatter shot and give it to SV? can’t that be a trained learned ability for hunters in general? sheesh. And if I critical on some shot, and it grants me 15% attack power for 10 seconds, then why not let my pet share it? or if my devilsaur monsterous bites, and it stacks 3 times can’t it also share that with me and automatically stack my ranged damage up to 3 times? Hunters are a great PvE soloing class I think, but that’s about it. In raids/dungeons they seem to generate too much threat with their shots, when meanwhile the pet is often taking threat off the main tank (which nobody likes) or it’s side-lined on passive (ineffectual), but of course it’s not good enough to tank by itself normally, and oh yeah they do pretty poor at pvp. *sigh* Things like that could be better balanced and resolved by the pet tree / families I think. With a BM spec i feel like I can sick my pet on most things 1,2,3 mobs and sit back and just autoshot and not do a thing *yawn* with MM *aspect of the hawk* I pull too much threat from my pet and disengage/feign/trap *aspect of the monkey* wingclip/raptor/mongoose constantly (survival skills i’m not spec’ed for). And survival I’ve not tried for soloing but I don’t think soloing is really what survival is made for. So I dunno. I think some tweaks and balancing could definitely happen for the Hunter class. :-/

Let our movement speed bonuses stack. There’s like four of them or something, and none stack. if they stacked, we could be fast enough to get the heck out of range.

Remove the range limit on Kill Shot. Why give us back that horrible deadzone on one ability?

Fix Evasion so that it removes you the max distance regardless of terrain! Nothing is worse than hitting Evade with your back to a slight slop and only hopping back three feet. It’s useless.

I do not mind being ranged only and sucking at melee, if there are as many ways for me to escape melee range and stay there as there are ways for melees to suck me in and keep me there.

Think of a two-sided whiteboard. You spend 79 levels working with your talents, glyphs, etc on one side of the whiteboard (in multicolored pens, of course).

When you hit level 80, you have the option of flipping to the other (completely clean) side and working with a completely empty whiteboard … er .. talent tree. You can draw something similar to what’s on the first side (say, BM with a twist) or something different (say, SV) or nothing at all (I plan to leave one of my specs untalented for testing purposes). And at any time you can flip the board again, back to the first side, and keep working there.

Once you are on a side, you can erase and rewrite (respec) or do whatever you normally do with your whiteboard/talents. So there’s no special UI involved in ‘setting’ or ‘unsetting’ the talents within each of the two specs — that’s all like it’s always been. There is only the UI of flipping the whiteboard to the other side (which is that whole Lexicon of Power thing).

Hmm … no idea if that’s helpful, but clearly I have been working too much with whiteboards this week. :>

/end book. Ok,so that’s a pretty radical change, which may be disliked by many. But it could make one of the trees quite different from the others, and perhaps mend our pvp woes. Just tossing ideas, Palla’s comment got me thinking. :)