Mena - Hunter Tank

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @AggrendWoW You and team did such an amazing job on SoD. You caught so much hate from misplaced frustration about Blizzard/WoW in general, but if the SoD classic team gets the freedom, you literally have the power to reshape WoW passion. Godspeed.

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene The mighty Thunderfury, with its not-affected-by-player-%-dmg-increases flag, is not scaling in Naxx with the seal ranks. This is making my Thunderfury feel insecure and not very legendary. Any chance it can be a part of this Naxx power fantasy?

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @Rat3dGnar @KawneyEast I realize the ship has sailed, but gating the t3 6p behind having the Melee Spec rune on would have brought everything in line and people could just play what they want.

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @Rat3dGnar @wylderson94 @KawneyEast Not sure I follow why melee has to be pure but ranged can be weave or pure. Trickweaving was a refreshing new playstyle that was very thematic. Expose Weakness made 1 build a tad high. Melee Spec was balanced. Was looking forward to having a hybrid build to flex on Heigan dance

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @KawneyEast @wylderson94 You can still maxweave in the ranged set, but the emergent playstyle "trickweave" has been gutted. It was playing in melee but moving out to ranged only for rapid fire's trick shooter.

Its a build that is viable now in pre-bis but sadly loses viability with the T3 6P changes

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @wylderson94 Was this tier change in respone to maxweave or the new "trickweave" build? Both of the overtuned builds were using Expose Weakness rune, but all melee build that used Melee Spec were VERY balanced. Sad to see a unique, thematic playstyle nuked.

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @thatguy_hob @KawneyEast @Ransacker0012 As a hunter main since 04, I think about pet builds vs lone wolf quite differently than you do. This is a snip from a discord chat I was having. Pets already help offset mistakes, so it doesn't make sense for them to be low risk high reward vs LW being high risk low reward

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @sneedyoboi @Archetype01 @AggrendWoW @KawneyEast Bonus: I do think the team is listening to feedback and I am hopeful that things turn out well. However, speaking for the community pure hope will never quell the fear that a beloved class could have been better if only the right feedback could have been given sooner.

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @sneedyoboi @Archetype01 @AggrendWoW @KawneyEast Trust me, I know many of us want to help move SoD in the right direction, but with the confusion on what hunter is supposed to be; bugs; and other concerns, its hard for hunters to prioritize concerns without more clear communication in the absence of changes. 7/7

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @sneedyoboi @Archetype01 @AggrendWoW @KawneyEast It is hard to ask hunters not to doom when other classes are getting more gap closers and raid utility while hunters are moving backwards with long CDs and abilities that still dont work (wyvern bite, traps in combat) that will lead to more delayed adjustments per your logic 2/2

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@Zirene @sneedyoboi @Archetype01 @AggrendWoW @KawneyEast Many hunter concerns are about the basic design direction of melee and survival hunters. Many concerns arent about tuning, they're worries about whether hunter will even be fun/express their fantasy. Your comments about numbers show a disconnect between Blizz and many hunters 1/2

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@AggrendWoW @ReadyPapaOne Whats keeping you from seeing how enthused and invested some folks can be about Hunter tanks? Hunters have had Distracting Shot, Mongoose Bite, Aspect of the Monkey, Deterrence.
Now that a melee rotation is in place why not let hunters have two roles? They just need a threat mod

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

Hey @AggrendWoW. I've been deep in the PTR and Hunter runes can all be tuned to work, but the gear slot configuration is hindering many runes and playstyles.

Please have someone look at my rearrangement of runes to support 8 different hunter fantasies.

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@AggrendWoW This is what the full build would look like for general tanking, such as dungeons.

[Mena - Hunter Tank @MenatwoHC]

@AggrendWoW Hi @AggrendWoW, I "discovered" some new runes that will give Survival Hunter an identity.