PTR 3.3 – Unnoted Hunter Changes
By way of the always excellent MMO Champion we have an additional listing of hunter changes that are either unintentional and will go away or are intentional but not yet in the patch notes. These come from a comparison of client spell data, if I understand correctly.
(Technically a number of the mana changes were mentioned in the patch notes in general, but we didn’t get details on which hunter spells would be affected.)
Beast Mastery
- Mend Pet, Scare Beast had the mana cost of their lower ranks reduced.
Marksmanship
- Silencing Shot additional tooltip text – Non-player victim spellcasting is also interrupted for 3 sec.
- Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot, Serpent Sting, Volley, Hunter’s Mark had the mana cost of their lower ranks reduced.
Survival
- Explosive Trap now burns all enemies for [ Ranged AP + 900 ] additional Fire damage over 20 sec. (Up from 900)
- Point of No Escape now increases the critical strike chance of all of your attacks on targets affected by your Frost Trap, Freezing Trap and Freezing Arrow. (Old – “Increases the critical strike chance of all attacks”)
- Misdirection redesigned – The current party or raid member targeted will received the threat caused by your next damaging attack and all actions taken for 4 sec afterwards.
- Lock and Load now has a 22 sec cooldown. (Down from 30 sec)
- Wyvern Sting, Mongoose Bite, Raptor Strike, Counterattack, Freezing Trap, Explosive Shot had the mana cost of their lower ranks reduced.
Personally, my legion of low level hunters is pleased that Mend Pet is getting cheaper.
Table of Contents for Series: Patch 3.3
- PTR 3.3 Notes Posted
- PTR 3.3 – Unnoted Hunter Changes
- Ghostcrawler on Pet Avoidance
- PTR 3.3: Culling the Herd, Cower Revised
- PTR 3.3: Faster Pet Leveling
- PTR 3.3: Spectral Bear?
- PTR 3.3: Northshire Wolves Getting Sick
- PTR 3.3: Arcturis the New Spirit Beast
- Patch 3.3: Arcturis the Spirit Bear, Diseased Wolves in Elwynn and More
6 Comments
The explosive trap changes could definitely give hunters a welcome boost to situational aoe. Gundrak snakes could become cannon fodder quick when properly combined with the new MD spell…
I’m really happy about the misdirect update. For those that were upset that the auto shots were taking place of your larger shots like explosive shot, this will combine it all into extra threat for the tanks. Very nice.
Lots of love for SV hunters…..
again. /sigh
Kitairra (BM 4 Life)
“Point of No Escape now increases the critical strike chance of all of your attacks on targets affected by your Frost Trap, Freezing Trap and Freezing Arrow”
This might be a stupid question, but attacks on CC’ed mobs would break the CC right? So what’s the point of this talent?
Solo play is all i can think of Nalain, i thought the exact same thing, but no worries to me, im MM and BM =D
@Nalain: I believe working with Frost Trap is the main point of that talent – in PvP, hunters will usually have Frost down for the snare effect anyway. For the two CC traps, the extra crit on the shot that breaks the target out of the trap doesn’t hurt.
Also, something that has come up on the Blizzard forums is that a number of the “changes” MMO Champion picked up are just fixes for incorrect tooltips rather than actual changes to the underlying spells.
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