All posts by bendak

Hunter Pets

Guide to Hunter Pets in Battle for Azeroth

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Hunter pets are being streamlined in Battle for Azeroth. You can no longer freely choose the specialization for each of your pets because each family has a set specialization. Pets from all three specializations -- Ferocity, Tenacity, and Cunning -- will all deal the same DPS and have the same amount of baseline health and … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

BfA Alpha: Changes to Dire Frenzy and Dire Beast, Bestial Wrath goes on the global cooldown

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There is no longer a choice between Dire Frenzy or Dire Beast, all BM Hunters will now be using Dire Frenzy for their Focus generator/Bestial Wrath reset. Well, now it's actually called Barbed Shot instead of Dire Frenzy, and it behaves totally like a shot (in that it requires a ranged weapon, and uses … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

BfA Alpha: Beast Mastery gets a couple of new talents (build 26433)

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Finally, we have a bit of action in the Beast Mastery talent tree! In today's BfA alpha build, there is a brand new talent and one redesigned talent.

New Level 15 talent

Killer Instinct: Kill Command deals 50% increased damage against enemies below 35% health. (replaces Big Game Hunter)

BM has an execute again! … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Changes to Focus in Battle for Azeroth

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In Battle for Azeroth, Focus is still a resource across the whole Hunter class, but it works a little differently for each specialization. Beast Mastery is staying the same (mostly passive regeneration), while Marksmanship is going back to a pre-Legion type of Hunter where the majority of Focus regeneration is active rather than passive. Survival … Continue Reading ››
Opinion

BfA: Ideas to improve Beast Mastery Hunters in 8.0

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The release of Battle for Azeroth is coming up fast. Quickly enough that I'm getting a bit worried about the state of Beast Mastery. My main concern is the talents as there are a lot of mandatory and just plain dead talents that will never be considered. Beast Mastery in Legion is in a decent place … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

BfA Alpha: Opinions and feedback on the three Hunter specs in early April

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I've been trying to play all three Hunter specs pretty equally on the alpha, including leveling, dungeons, and island expeditions. This will be the first of hopefully several posts on my current opinion of the state of the class on alpha/beta. I'm also going to keep this bullet point form to make it easy for … Continue Reading ››
Hunter Pets, Opinion

BfA Alpha: Survival is starting to feel more like Beast Mastery than Beast Mastery

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After playing all 3 specs on the Battle for Azeroth alpha, I've come to the conclusion that Survival feels like what Beast Mastery should feel like. I'm not talking about melee combat. I'm talking about the pet and the hunter being an actual duo, playing off each other and reliant on each other. Beast Mastery Hunters … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Hunter Pets

Beast Mastery pet dual wielding to return in Battle for Azeroth

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If you were worried about losing Hati, worry no more. In today's alpha build a new talent has appeared called Animal Companion:

"Your Call Pet additionally summons the first pet from your stable. This pet will obey your Kill Command, but cannot use pet family abilities."

It replaces Way of the Cobra. It doesn't … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

These Battle for Azeroth Hunter pet changes aren’t so popular [Updated]

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I talked about some of these changes in my original alpha post, but now that people have seen the changes in-game, things have become a little more clear. Let's get the bad news out of the way first: You can no longer change pet specializations. Each pet family is locked to one … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Beast Mastery tier 21 hotfix buffs, the Aspect of the Wild build, and the start of BfA Alpha

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A couple of Beast Mastery hotfixes dropped this week, but they're both pretty minor. I've had a lot of people ask about them and how it affects gearing, so here's a quick post on them.

Hotfix 1: Increases all damage by 2.5%

This applies to every main ability and active talent, it doesn't increase things such as … Continue Reading ››