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| Hunter Changes in Patch 5.1 |
Patch 5.1 is believed to be live after server maintenance today, and hunters will be getting a few tweaks. Aspect of the Fox has now been removed which means hunters will be getting the passive 10% attack power from Aspect of the Hawk and can cast Steady Shot, Cobra Shot and Barrage. This is indeed a buff for across all specializations. It will be interesting to see hunters swap in Barrage to replace Glaive Toss for PVP since you can cast this while moving and showering your target with 640% weapon damage to the enemy target and an average of 320% weapon damage to each other enemy target in front of you for 3 seconds.
Another changed that we have seen it coming is Glyph of Solace which has been renamed from Glyph of Icy Solace will now causes both Scatter Shot and Freezing Trap to remove all damage over time effects from targets. A good choice when you're switching targets a lot in arenas.
A few buff for Marksmanship hunters, Careful Aim now increases the critical strike chance of Steady Shot and Aimed Shot by 75% on targets above 80% health, down from 90% and a glyph has been added called Glyph of Aimed Shot that allows Aimed Shot to be used while moving.
Finally, two nerfs hitting Beast Mastery hunters with Lynx Rush is now only a bleed that causes damage every 3 seconds over a period of 15 seconds and stacks up to 9 times. PVP players are now forced to pick up Blink Strike which is better for single target and constant target switching since it has a short cooldown of 20 seconds. The other one is Beastial Wrath no longer grants Hunter pets immunity to crowd control effects and will now break existing crowd control effects upon activation. Huge nerfs for BM, I would recommend to bind Beastial Wrath with Intimidation to avoid your target to fear or perform other crowd control on your pet within that 3 seconds stun period. An ideal rotation to burst would be to cast Beastial Wrath and Intimidation followed by Blink Strike and Stampede with a Shale Spider pet stun to continue to lock your opponent down while bursting. Maybe by adding Barrage after that might add a little bit more pressure on your opponent's team. Although, I think Barrage might be better for Rated Battlegrounds for that massive AoE damage compared to arenas.
As a summary, patch 5.1 will give Marksmanship hunter a room to compete in PVP and if you're staying Beast Mastery, you have to change your play style a little bit without Lynx Rush by coordinating more switches with BW/Initimidation/Blink Strike/Stampede combo.
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