Not having access to the Beta forums exasperates me.

Why, you ask? Because the Beta forums seem to be overrun by PVP-minded blowhards. Every discussion of AotV, pet survivability, and the like is PVP-centric.

I know I'm probably going to alienate at least two readers (heya Bandet and Kordwar), but I genuinely do not care about the PVP future of Hunters in Wrath. If the class has potential, so be it, but there will be blood spilled if that future comes at the cost of PVE potential. Quotes such as "A mana regen based fully on physically attacking something is incredibly broken" exasperate me. It is perfectly fine for PVE, and solves the vast majority of our issues. You know what the overwhelming opinion about Old Beta Viper was amongst Hunters who weren't idiots? That it was fun. It was enjoyable. It made us feel like a real energy-based class, and if you'll think back to the Beta for Vanilla WoW, that's exactly what we were meant to be.

But no, if you believe what you read on the Beta forums right now, "REGEN FROM SHOOTING IS A FAIL". Of course, that only applies if you're in Arena - not all of us are, and I genuinely wish that none of us were. Then again, we already know that it's Dungeon Doom 2.0, but hey, it's what Kalgan does best. We gotta give him his dues, hrm?

My overwhelming concern is this: I am genuinely worried that Blizzard will continue to take opinions like I mentioned as the overwhelming mindset of the whole class, which is not the case. They're already forcing PVP upon undesiring PVEers with stuff like the S3 Waraxe (easily one of the best melee options in terms of effort to get:quality ratio), and now they're doing it again in Wrath with Lake Wintergrasp - there's a raid in there that you can only do if your faction controls Wintergrasp? How is that even remotely fair to PVEers? Spare me the lecture that Wintergrasp is kinda like a big, non-instanced battleground - I should not have to deal with PVP nonsense and gather a second set of gear JUST to gain access to a raid instance, nor should I have to place my eggs in the basket of the PVP-minded people on my server.

Please remember: PVE and raiding has been in this game since WoW 1.0. Battlegrounds, PVP, and Arena were a very distant afterthought, and balance should reflect this.