07-30-2005, 09:33 AM
In a word, obscene.
Total Health +10%? That's flat-out ridiculous. Hunters aren't tanks. They do not need the extra HP; they have Mail armor and various methods of keeping melee targets away from them.
Agility +15%? That's even worse. Even if it operates solely on base AGI, +15% represents a large boost in crit-rate, Dodge, and attack power. Again, the idea of passively increasing any stat - basic or derived - by this magnitude without some sort of drawback (a la Demonic Embrace) is ludicrous.
They already had Precision to increase their chance to hit. They don't need snare/root resistance to go with it.
+20% crit to Raptor Strike seems WAY too high. Hunters can use the same weapons Warriors can (for the most part), and giving Raptor Strike +20% crit would be the same as giving Heroic Strike +20% crit.
Without Counterattack, Deterrence seems kind of silly. I guess it could be used to make Mongoose Bite proc more often, but I heard Mongoose Bite was crap.
Killer Instinct is overpowered as is. +3% crit to melee attacks is fine; +3% to both melee AND ranged is not.
Bestial Wrath combined with the other pet-damage boosters sounds pretty frightening, especially when you factor in the fear immunity (and presumable sleep/sheep immunity.) You'll already have +15% damage from Unleashed Fury, and then +15% crit from Ferocity. You have an uberized version of Flurry via Frenzy, and a stun via Intimidation. Finally, your pet is now dealing double damage (quadruple damage on frequent crits) and is presumably immune to all CC effects for 15 seconds, and this happens every two minutes.
If these proposed changes make it into the game, I'm quitting. I've already experienced this crap with Diablo II. I'm not going to suffer through it again at fifteen dollars a month.
Total Health +10%? That's flat-out ridiculous. Hunters aren't tanks. They do not need the extra HP; they have Mail armor and various methods of keeping melee targets away from them.
Agility +15%? That's even worse. Even if it operates solely on base AGI, +15% represents a large boost in crit-rate, Dodge, and attack power. Again, the idea of passively increasing any stat - basic or derived - by this magnitude without some sort of drawback (a la Demonic Embrace) is ludicrous.
They already had Precision to increase their chance to hit. They don't need snare/root resistance to go with it.
+20% crit to Raptor Strike seems WAY too high. Hunters can use the same weapons Warriors can (for the most part), and giving Raptor Strike +20% crit would be the same as giving Heroic Strike +20% crit.
Without Counterattack, Deterrence seems kind of silly. I guess it could be used to make Mongoose Bite proc more often, but I heard Mongoose Bite was crap.
Killer Instinct is overpowered as is. +3% crit to melee attacks is fine; +3% to both melee AND ranged is not.
Bestial Wrath combined with the other pet-damage boosters sounds pretty frightening, especially when you factor in the fear immunity (and presumable sleep/sheep immunity.) You'll already have +15% damage from Unleashed Fury, and then +15% crit from Ferocity. You have an uberized version of Flurry via Frenzy, and a stun via Intimidation. Finally, your pet is now dealing double damage (quadruple damage on frequent crits) and is presumably immune to all CC effects for 15 seconds, and this happens every two minutes.
If these proposed changes make it into the game, I'm quitting. I've already experienced this crap with Diablo II. I'm not going to suffer through it again at fifteen dollars a month.
ArrayPaladins were not meant to sit in the back of the raid staring at health bars all day, spamming heals and listening to eight different classes whine about buffs.[/quote]
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