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New Hunter Glyphs in Legion

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The glyph system in Legion is changing in several ways. First, there are no more major glyphs, only cosmetic minor glyphs. Second, glyphs are now applied to the affected ability directly and are consumable. You can no longer permanently learn a glyph. For example, when you right-click one of the Dire Beast glyphs it will … 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

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 ››
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, Opinion

Legion Alpha: Some more time with the Melee Hunter

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I've warmed up to the melee Hunter a little more since my last post. I still don't think it's going to pull me away from my bread and butter (Beast Mastery), but I am starting to get the hang of it. I still sometimes need to remind myself to use traps more often because … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

Legion Alpha: Testing the new melee Survival Hunter

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I'm in Alpha! Yay! So far only Survival is playable, so I was kinda forced into trying out the melee Hunter first. The most recent Locked and Loaded I posted at Blizzard Watch goes into my initial thoughts on the spec (keeping in mind it's still incredibly early). I'll talk about some of that … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

Legion Alpha: Preliminary list of Hunter talents

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Datamining has been happening for the past day or so, but it's not until now that we get to the juicy stuff: spell data. It's great that Wowhead got it all up so fast, but it's a huge data dump and not fully contextualized yet. I attempted to filter out the weird and … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Opinion

Legion Hunter Preview: First impressions and feedback

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Remember during Warlords of Draenor's development when Blizzard was talking  about "spec differentiation?" It almost became a buzz phrase. They sort of delivered, but not in a way that mattered much. At their core, the 3 Hunter specs were still the same. We had a Focus generator, a Focus dump, and a signature ability. The "differentiation" … Continue Reading ››
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Hunter news from day 2 of BlizzCon 2015

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For the most part, Blizzard focused on broader topics rather than specific class information. That doesn't mean we didn't learn nothing about Hunters though! I've picked up this information from various sources over the course of today. Just a reminder that a lot of this isn't confirmed and can change.

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