Scattered Shots: Nerf Train Rolls in on the Beta

Frostheim at WoW Insider: The great shadow of the nerf bat has fallen over the Mists beta hunter, and it’s hitting hard. Of course, it’s not necessarily a bad thing — sometimes numbers are too big, and they need to be smaller to keep things balanced.

For those of you who have not been keeping track of all the constant beta changes, here’s what happened: A bit ago, we got a big wave of hunter buffs. Some of these were for the sake of buffing hunters, but others were intended to fix bugs or to adjust the comparative balance of shots or abilities. The end result was huge DPS buffs. Too huge.

Hunter DPS was over-the-top high, so much so that many hunters even started pointing it out. And there were other weird things too — like Arcane Shot doing more damage than Explosive Shot, dogs and cats living together, etc.

With the volume of changes coming in this patch, you can be pretty sure that we’re not done. If history is any indicator, it’s likely that hunters got a bit over-nerfed and we’ll see some compensating buffs in the near future. . . . Read full article

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