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Upcoming Hunter Changes
Elitist Jerks — I wanted to create a thread to talk about upcoming changes for hunters in general, though at first this will involve discussion of this particular set of changes. I'll update the OP as new rounds of changes come out to discuss those as well. From World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums -> Upcoming Hhunter Changes Hunters of all ...

The great hunter nerf of 2008
WoW.com — Filed under: Hunter, Patches, News itemsI quote Ghostcrawler: "Hunters of all specs, and particularly Beastmaster, are doing too much damage in PvE." At this point you can stop reading if you're a Hunter and just assume the worst. But if you want to see how you're getting nerfed to the ground, read on. The rationale behind the changes is that Blizzard has been doing a lot of internal testing, along with the beta of WotLK, and has determined the other classes have not been able to keep up with the Hunter DPS output. The list of nerfs is wide ranging. Steady Shot ...

Incoming Hunter Nerfs
Less QQ, More PewPew — Blizzard decided to break my build. Along with a lot of things. Take a gander over at this. I just can’t fathom some of these changes. In case you can view it: 1) Steady Shot – now only gains 10% of attack power as damage (down from 20%). 2) Volley – reduced the damage by about 30% for all ranks. Note that AE damage from many classes is very high right now and we are looking at all of them. Volley in particular had reached the point where some hunters were using it to the exclusion of most other attacks. 3) Readiness – no longer affects the cooldown of Bestial Wrath. 4) Deterrence – has been completely overhauled. It ...

Upcoming Hunter Changes
Mania's Arcania — ... Ghostcrawler posted today on the Blizzard Damage Dealing forum about upcoming hunter changes. I’ll quote the rather longish post and then make some comments afterwards. ...

We're being nerfed
Mirshalak's Lair — We just had this thread started by Ghostcrawler, where he announced some changes. There is, of course, already talk of respeccing. As I said in that thread, Survival ended up with Marksmanship's proverbial poor, tired, and huddled masses during The Burning Crusade, as well. It's genuinely ironic how much things with Surv within WoW echo people's attitudes towards Survivalism as a real world ideology, at times. When times are good, Surv is consistently shat on as being a broken, worthless tree in the forum. Then when the nerf bat hits; ...

Analysis of A Nerf
35 Yards Out — ... Approximately 2 hours ago, the hunter community was caught off-guard by Ghostcrawler’s announcement that “[h]unters of all specs…are doing too much damage in PvE”. ...

My Fellow BM Hunters
Aspect of the Hare — So Blizz has the nerf bat and we’re the battered Big Red Piñata this time. Stay positive. I think it will be okay. If we have to work harder for BM DPS now, then that makes it all the more fun and exciting. Not as easy to top DPS now? So be it– maybe we can finally shake the huntard stigma. Hang in there everyone! /group hug

NEWSFLASH: Hunters beaten like a Red Headed Pally
Grumble N Autumnn — Ghostcrawler made a post today about the up coming Hunter nerfs. These are the changes they will be putting into the PTR so these are not set in stone atm. Needless to say Grumble and I was cussing him out. Yeah we were doing some nice DPS but ya can't help but get the "Damn the Man and his Ban Hammper" feeling. ...

Nerf Sed!
The Incredible Noobiewan — Hello Again! As pointed out on many of the hunter blogs out there, there is a nerf on the horizon. what does noobie think. Nerf happens Just going to find new ways of reaching high DPS levels because we’re Hunters. We’re awesome and we keep coming back to be the best. Anyway, this post is just another way for you to read the post with the details of the changes, so please click here. -Noobie

Hunters? Yeah, you didn’t hear it here first!
Big Bear Butt Blogger — Mania and BRK have already weighed in on the subject, and that should be enough for anyone, but what the heck, I love my Beastmaster Hunter. Been playing my Hunter all the time lately. So I’ll fire up my ‘Aspect of the Long Winded’ and take a shot at it. First, let me quote Mania quoting Ghostcrawler’s post: Hunters of all specs, and particularly Beastmaster, are doing too much damage in PvE. We tested this a lot internally in beta and knew hunters were high but we hoped other classes would be able to catch up in a way they have as yet been unable to do. We want to be careful not to hurt hunter dps too ...

Ghostcrawler speaks - huge hunter nerf in coming
steady shot — We tested this a lot internally in beta and knew hunters were high but we hoped other classes would be able to catch up in a way they have as yet been unable to do. We want to be careful not to hurt hunter dps too much in PvP, so we’re taking most of the damage out of Steady Shot and Volley. Beastmaster hunters are in addition losing some of their pet dps. We still want BMs to have the best pets, but pet dps numbers are a little high at the moment. We are also still concerned about hunter survivability in PvP and taking the opportunity to jazz up Deterrence into something that looks and plays a little more interesting.  These are not all of the changes we are ...

Lass’s Take on Upcoming Hunter Nerfs
The Hunter's Mark — By now, you’re no doubt aware that we Hunters have some nerfs coming to us in 3.0.8 (and I’ve yet to see a rational explanation for it being 3.0.8). The upcoming changes have already been discussed in-depth, both on the forums following Ghostcrawler’s announcement, and on many other blogs, so I won’t bore you with the details. If by some chance of fate you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple weeks, or just aren’t that in-tune with the community at large, I recommend you go read the announcement straight from the lips (fingers?) of Ghostcrawler before you proceed. ...