Caldone the Shady wrote:
Yeah ummmm North...
You can achieve all the trap talents whils still running with a 41 Point BM or MM build...
Of course you can. Like Resourcefulness. And I said CC, not Trap. Wyvern Sting anyone?
My point was this, Survival wasn't ruined even for a second by this. Readiness, perhaps. But every single talent before that hasn't been changed by this nerf, only one or two of the possible applications of it. There's nothing a Surv Hunter could do that got affected by this nerf, that other builds didn't get in equal measures.
Survival's strength in instances has always been the ability to keep one mob 100% incapacitated even if a trap should break early. You can still do that. Those funny videos of Triple trapping while Wyvern Stinging two mobs was just that. Funny videos with little practical application. Removing the Oh Shi-! group saver of a double trap was definitely a bad move by Blizzard, but it was hardly a Survival breaker.
I am staying Survival, because in a Raid I provide the most powerful Raid buff a Hunter can give while still being able to do Heroics and CC two mobs at a time, and one indefinitely. Survival Hunters still rock the Hunter world for CC, and we aren't broken.
But we are most certainly pissed off as hell.
Oh, and someone asked me to come up with builds. Well, there's two favorite builds of mine when it comes to Survival:
5/20/36 is a pure Raid DPS build with high mana efficiency and Expose Weakness. You can switch around a bit with the lower talentpoints if you don't want Deterrence and so on. The important bit lies in the Trap talents and DPS talents around. This build will also make you completely useless in PvP since every CC talent in this build is void in PvP.
0/21/40 is a complete beast for CC. Losing one single thing, IAotH, gains you Scattershot, Wyvern Sting and reduced Trap Cooldown. Again, some lower talents can be switched around. If you have high mp5, you can go for Imp Hunter's Mark or Imp Conc shot. If you don't like Deterrence, you can have another 2% health from Survivalist and so on.