What is your favorite thing Cataclysm brought to the Hunter class. - General Hunter Discussion - Hunter Forums

Lately all I have been reading is all the negative things that Cataclysm has done to Hunter class.  I need some positivity in my life and motivation to keep leveling my new Goblin.

Now I know I have not experienced any Cataclysm max level content on my new hunter yet, but for me I find that the best thing I've seen right now is the fact that the stable is HUGE now, and bringing back a slew of rares to hunt down and tame.  I remember one of the best things in pre-BC was hunting down that rare spawn for its kick ass abilities, as well as its looks (i.e. Broken Tooth 1.0 attack speed).  Now I realize we will never see OP pet traits like that again, at least we have a huge stable and nice looking beasts out there to tame.

Everyone covered the gist of Cata's gifts to hunters pretty well. Only thing I would add is the buff to multi-shot making us awesome aoe again, the practicality of our CC. With CC being so important in Cata and ours being one of the few that doesn't have restrictions on what type of mob it'll work on makes having hunters in any raid situation a good idea!  And lastly my fav cata addition to date has gotta be Skarr… that cat looks freakin cool and was well worth the 4 days spent camping him! Best looking cat in game ever =)

Blizzard did this in cata:

Take your WoTLK hunter:

1. Make your mana regenerate while casting (You don't have to wait 5 seconds like other casters.

2. Reduced the maximum manapool a hunter had to 100. Removed all INT on gear

3. Reduces the mana cost of all attacks accordingly, and made several free. Reduce other mana gaining effects similarly. (such as, roar of recovery, 30% mana -> 30 mana)

4. Make steady and cobra shot generate 9 mana.

Woah, look… it is your hunter, with a blue bar.

Focus is not really superior or worse than mana, it IS mana, in TL;DR form.

They just changed the blue bar orange.

Aspect of the viper = Steady shotting

The ONLY difference is they made the mana bar a lot smaller. You go into aspect of the viper after every two shots, instead of every two minutes, and spend less time in it (but you have to cast).

That is why it fails, they didn't put actual thought into it, just swept it under the rug and hope we wouldn't notice.

They took the one saving grace the wotlk PvP hunter had, the fact that they were the only caster who didn't have to cast, and removed it.

They gave us back zero resource tools when they did it. We still follow the same formula as mana. We don't have more ways to generate it, like a warrior, who has a million talents for rage regeneration, more than a handful of abilities that do it, or a dk who has two resources, with multiple abilities that can generate either one. Rogues and ferals have buttons to press to get more energy, like adrenaline rush and tiger's fury. They also have combo points interworking in energy, so that they can build up, then save their resource… and do it all at once.

Hunters cannot do that because we have a linear mana system. Like a mana user, our dps goes at one speed, on or off. Anything between on and off is due to the player not hitting everything as fast as they should. A rogue can control their damage more, for example, if they are at 20 energy, they can sinister strike. They could also stand there auto attacking and do nothing until they can backstab. A hunter does not have the choice. We have to spend every global cooldown on something. This is one reason why hunters are harder to play, and much more frustrating than any other class. Mana is designed to have a large pool for you to do whatever with, but when you run out you are screwed. Your dps goes on when you have mana, and off when you dont. You generally have a button that gives back, and the goal is to not run out before you can press the button.

Hunters button is steady shot, and it is pressed every 2 seconds.

Maybe if they made steady/cobra shot instead give you focus over a period of 5-6 seconds in the form of a buff, it wouldn't be so annoying.

Can't you guess?

Cata brought back my BC Alpha strike.

Aimed shot + multi/arcane into a CC'd dude with 45% crit chance? Yup. That is what a hunter should be.

Except, it is more annoying then. In BC I only had to wait until cooldowns, and keep running in circles till they are CC'd.. now I have to spam steady shots, which bleed my target, which make me unable to CC. Woe is me.