Build 16010 is being deployed on the Mists of Pandaria beta soon and there are several nerfs for hunters:
Tier 14 Two Piece Bonus
- Item – Hunter T14 2P Bonus – Your Kill Command deals 15% (down from 20%) additional damage, your Chimera Shot deals 15% additional damage, and your Explosive Shot deals 5% additional damage.
Beast Mastery
- Frenzy Your pet has a 40% chance to gain 4% (down from 8%) increased attack speed after attacking with a Basic Attack, lasting for 30 sec and stacking up to 5 times.
Marksmanship
- Aimed Shot A powerful aimed shot that deals 260% ranged weapon damage plus 16,986 (down from 280% plus 19,541).
- Chimera Shot An instant shot that causes 200% (down from 210%) ranged weapon Nature damage plus 2,244 (down from 2,617) refreshing the duration of your Serpent Sting and healing you for 3% of your total health.
- Master Marksman You have a 50% (down from 60%) chance when you Steady Shot to gain the Master Marksman effect, lasting 30 sec.
- Mastery: Wild Quiver Grants a 16% chance for your ranged attacks to also instantly fire an additional ranged shot that deals 80% weapon damage (down from 85%).
Survival
- Explosive Shot You fire an explosive charge into the enemy target, dealing 270.5 + 0.1% of 21700% of RAP (down from 324 + 0.1% of 26000%) Fire damage initially and every second for 2 sec.
Pets
- Froststorm Breath The Chimera channels a frozen breath attack, causing (275 + 28.8% of RAP * 1.5) [down from (275 + 28.8% of RAP * 1.8)] Froststorm damage every 2 sec for 8 sec to all enemies within 12 yards.
For a complete list of changes in this build see MMO Champion.
For implications of the changes see Zeherah’s post.
Makes me sad to see explosive shot keep going down. On live hitting the dummy with no buffs and a cat I do around 34k dps On beta doing the same with dire beast/crows I was pulling around 31k Now I’m no numbers person but still makes me nervous that my dps will drop these next 4 weeks
The nerfs to MM seem odd as well considering it was already well below the other specs, and SV/MM can’t bring the exotic pet abilities such as hero/lust and battle rez that BM can. Let’s hope there are further changes coming in a new build that will help us make sense of it.