Tag Archives: Legion Alpha

Opinion

A disappointing alpha and beta for Hunters

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The Legion alpha and beta process has been a long one. I've been in for nearly 7 months, and I wasn't even in the first wave. One would expect a good deal of iteration over such a long period of time, but for Hunters that really hasn't been the case. Blizzard was receptive to feedback … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Legion: First round of number tuning for Hunters

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The latest alpha build (geez, it's still alpha after 5 months?) is the start of class number tuning. Beast Mastery Hunters saw some fairly big numbers changes on both abilities and talents, a lot of them for the better. Survival and Marksmanship saw fewer adjustments. Here's what Celestalon had to say about this build: [bluequote author="Celestalon" … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Hunter Pets

Beast Mastery News: Hati customization, Dire Beast replacement

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Shortly after I wrote this initial piece on what I felt was wrong with the Beast Mastery fantasy in Legion, the developers announced that they planned on adding a glyph so that Dire Beast would pull from your own stable of pets rather than use random ones from the wild. This addressed one of … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Legion: Marksmanship is getting its pet back

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This post is brought to you by Warcraft, in theaters this June! Seriously though, check out that dwarf! Lothar can't believe that someone called him a Huntard to his face like that. Clearly they didn't see that this dwarf was packing.  Let's pretend he is a Marksmanship Hunter so that it's relevant to this post. The big news came in … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Legion Alpha: Beast Mastery has arrived, quivers, new Hunter legendary items, and glyphs

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Finally! Beast Mastery is unlocked on the Legion alpha. The current build has been unstable thus far so it's difficult to get any serious testing done, but I did manage to complete the Titanstrike artifact quest line and complete a level. Having now played through all three Hunter artifact scenarios, I definitely think the … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

Legion Alpha Update: Where’s my Beast Mastery?

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I need some Beast Mastery in my life. I'm just not feeling much of an attachment to SV or MM yet. I hate to say it, but Blizzard may have changed them too much for my liking. Normally I am receptive to change and try to see the positive side to this sort of thing, but I … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

New Year, New Alpha: Marksmanship unlocked, alternate Hati colors, mechanical dog

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Aaaaaand we're back. Sort of. The Legion alpha is back online and with it comes our first look at Marksmanship! Beast Mastery is still locked out but should hopefully be available soon. Unfortunately a bug in the Marksmanship artifact scenario is preventing progression, but I expect that will be fixed relatively soon. I still managed … Continue Reading ››
Opinion

Legion Alpha: Some more things making me grumpy about Survival

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Warning: This post is going to be a bit of a rant. If you're looking for objective analysis, you can skip this post, alright? The most recent alpha build has some changes to Survival that unfortunately made the spec... less exciting... for me. Alpha/beta is a very iterative process so I guess this is to be … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Beast Mastery will dual wield pets in Legion

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I've talked about my desire for Beast Mastery to be able to have two pets many times in the past, and I'm happy to say it looks like it's becoming a reality in Legion. I hesitate to get too excited since things can so easily change at this point, but I can't resist. The extra pet is … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Legion Alpha: Hunter tier 19 armor preview

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Both Wowhead and MMO-Champion posted previews of the Hunter tier 19 (and PvP) armor today. This is definitely Sylvanas-inspired armor and will probably suit Marksmanship the best with their Dark Ranger talent and the Thas'dorah bow. There are many colors for the various difficulties and PvP tiers, with the Mythic and Elite PvP … Continue Reading ››