Comments on: Dear Melee DPS

By: Troutwort

Troutwort — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:13:38 +0000

Apparently autoshot will cast on the move now? Well in the next patch anyways?

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:48:27 +0000

I need to get my hunter up for fights where we have overkill on tanking… not sure if that will be soon though. Of course I would probably do poor DPS while huntering and raid leading at the same time. I suppose I could make a boomkin spec….

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:42:42 +0000

Yeah Button… I like focus too… kinda but apparently not enough to level my hunter seriously

Seems like I might not be alone in the ‘like it but… meh’.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:51:06 +0000

You have a great teacher on hand there! But them we’d lose one of our awesome Mage duo. I need to get MORE rdps not the same mix…

By: Falahla

Falahla — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:06:55 +0000

Now I totally feel like I should level my hunter and get her geared so that she could come in the raid instead of the mage if necessary. Time to ask Ado for hunter lessons!

By: Button

Button — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:38:19 +0000

@Troutwort – I think it was the resource change. My guild’s 2 hunters rerolled or left the game because they didn’t like focus.

…of course, I adore focus management and only started seriously leveling my hunter alt after the switch. So I think we’re at the place in time now where a lot of old hunters have left the class, but not a lot of people have rolled new hunters yet to fill the ranks back in.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:37:21 +0000

Yeah, our raid tonight we’re bringing two mdps – but one is our third tank if we need it. The other has been really good at stepping out and I will ask him if I feel it’s necessary. We’re actually kind of short on rdps right now…. I probably could have brought four melee but I’m not that insane.

By: Button

Button — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:34:24 +0000

When I’m running fury, I actually ask the healer to hold back on healing me. Between Bloodthirst (0.5% heal on every melee attack including auto-attacks, glyphed to 0.7%, talented to 0.9%), Victory Rush (20% heal usable for ~20 s after getting a killing blow, glyphed to 30%, talented to 38%), and survival cooldowns on top of that, I feel pretty good about my longevity in melee.

Honestly, every melee class has survival cooldowns, and many have some kind of self-healing. LFD pugs who know what they’re doing are rare, sure, but I don’t think the problem is with melee – the problem is with the pugs, and maybe with the higher skill cap/attention to health required to be a good melee player than to be a good ranged player. The exception at the moment is death knights, especially unholy, but they’re having that addressed in 4.0.6.

For raiding though, Blizzard needs to wise up. Having more than 1 melee is unnecessarily difficult on many ten-man encounters, and having more than 2 is practically impossible. It’s no accident that we got most of our 10m H ICC kills after our rogue dropped the raid, leaving us with only one melee; and even then there were fights when I wished we could bring all ranged, but not a single fight where I wished we had more melee.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:25:32 +0000

Doesn’t Elia have an over-80 hunter as well? But yeah. We have ONE hunter at 85. ONE.

By: repgrind

repgrind — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:22:21 +0000

I can think of five total 80+ hunters in the guild … and that’s including Reversion, Trout, and Arc and Chill’s alts. Lex is really the only main. Let’s face it, once people have to actually learn how to do more than MD and volley, hunter is no longer a faceroll.