You know, I thought Ghostcrawler actually had it right.

But apparently he's just as blind and idiotic as any other developer.

"As I have suggested a few times, we are concerned that hunters of all 3 specs are doing damage that is clearly superior to other classes. While we're trying to achieve closer parity among specs of all classes with regard to dps, and we want to particularly make sure that hunters, rogues, mages and locks are not left behind, we do think the hunters are too far ahead, particularly at 80, in good gear, when raid-buffed.

However, we have also tried to give hunters a substantial survivability boost in PvP and we don't want to do anything that hurts them too much in PvP.

So here are changes you will most likely see soon:

1) Ranged attacks no longer benefit from the haste effects of Windfury Totem and Improved Icy Talons. This is a nerf to hunter white damage.

2) We are also improving the armor on level 83 raid bosses by 10%. This will be a nerf to the dps of any class that does physical damage. For classes that would slide behind with such a change, we'll take steps to adjust them -- though it probably isn't as many as you think. The raid buff stacking overhaul was very beneficial to melee (and hunters). Sunder / Expose Armor alone can be a 20%+ dps increase, which is why we decided to attack the problem from this angle."

This is possibly the most laughable bundle of contradictions, self-lies, and horseshit I've ever seen GC spew. First off, it's not anywhere close to helping to ensure "closer parity between specs" - this yet AGAIN makes Beast Mastery the fucking prominent spec, since Serpent's Swiftness is going to be mandatory to get us down to the GCD cap. Secondly, expanding on what I said, it's not just a nerf to white damage if you're MM or SV - we rely on Steady as the bulk of our rotations, and now this is gonna nerf Steady by a good 20% too! So now we're taking a 20% nerf on 65-70% of our damage! Very raw math shows this to be a roughly 15% overall DPS nerf, and we BARELY beat Rogues/Warriors/Ret Paladins/Frostfire Mages by 300-500 DPS! Assuming the best Hunter parse on the Patchwerk scoreboard (5472 DPS, MM Hunter), that puts us at 4651.2 DPS - below Arms and Fury Warriors, Mutilate Rogues, Frostfire Mages, and Ret Paladins on that scoreboard! And a few places below 4650, in the area of 4200, you see Ret Paladins and Frost DKs - AND THEY'RE NOT FULLY EPICED!

And there's other posts by GC that I'll let you go look at MMO-C's BlueTracker to find, but suffice it to say, there's a lot of PVE nerfing mindset in the dev team, and if they keep it up, you're gonna see a lot of Hunters losing raid spots pretty soon. Because, after all, what do we bring to the table other than crazy amounts of ranged DPS? Misdirection?


hahahahaha, yeah, right.