Hunters expectations from the expansionFollow

The only classes with a hugely different playstyle depending on spec are the hybrid classes + Warriors + Priests. Hunter is a pure DPS class. No matter how the spec would work out, we'd still DPS by sending in pet and pew pewing.

1=BM tree.really focus on our pet with some talents that are really connect us.If our pet is dead we may as well be dead as we've lost so much DPS.

2=MM tree.pure PvP tree.

3=SV tree. overall raid class that gives to other raid-mates' targets very nice debuffs.Huge survability and cc control..

By swapping what you said around, I am describing the specs as they are today.

Yes i know, i just want some more discrimination.Not become a hybrid class.
We see all tree in raids.
We see all trees in PVP.
We see all trees in solo.
The reason i say all these is because the last month i changed every 5 days my talents,cause i am boring, and i didnt feel nothing was changing.
And now the most raiders are BM.And also the most pvpers are BM.(only in 2200 bracket you see more MM).
Mages,rogues have a different tree for raid and pvp for example

Edited, May 15th 2008 8:20am by dorogodess

Lets hope so :)

I could go with two things:

• An extra stable slot or two, or at least be able to temporarily control an extra pet for an hour or so to allow for three permanent and one temporary pets.
• Pets get an extra source of hit rating, either derived from the master's own hit rating or from talents (could go for warlocks as well), or even derive expertise based on master's hit rating with a revamped/new talent or skill to increase the chance to hit.

I like the idea of a BM Hunter being able to control an extra pet, but how would you control the other pet, how would that scale with other talent trees, would it be permanent or temporary, etc...
-Add pet armor slots, give different pets a talent tree specific to their species to allow for better/ more distinction between Hunter's and pets.
-Change TSA to scale with gear, or add +hit or +crit as well as the meager AP boost.
-Change TSA to be a Hunter skill instead of a talent and allow MM to add talents into it to be much more effective, adding a much more significant AP increase, along with giving +hit and +crit.
-Make bows/ xbows craftable.
-More Aspects (water speed, flying speed, Cheetah v2.0, other elemental resistances, make AotH proc more often, etc...)
-Hunter Fletching (similar to Rogue poisons), cutting down on the oops moments and freeing up bag space for raiders, allowing for stack of reagents to make multiple stacks of arrows
or
-Make arrows stacks larger(500, 999 even).
or
-Make ammo like thowing weapons and give them a durability rating, still needing a quiver if you want the speed increase.
-Make Quiver/ Ammo Pouches an equippable item instead of a bag and only allow Hunters to Equip them, like Paladin Librams.
-Make Serpent Sting viable, higher base damage or lower mana cost or make it scale better with AP.
-Allow hunter pets to be viable in something other than DPS, like tanking, or debuffs or something else, obviously not great but enough to be viable in instances and not be laughed at.

I could go on all day about things like these, but I honestly don't think Hunters NEED anything, we're fine as is. I won't speculate as to the new skills and talents that will be coming, but I can guess they will server to further diversify each talent tree and make each type of Hunter truly different, or one can only hope.

The OP here proves to me beyond any doubt that the WoW community taken as a whole is totally impossible to keep happy.

What are half the whines in WoW about? That each tree is too different, that their relative performances in environments are not acceptable. "Make Ret good in Raids", "Make Ret good in Arena", "Make Enhance good in Arena"... the WoW community constantly demands that such-and-such spec be buffed to the performance level of another spec.

I take the point that one Hunter plays like another, but as has been said every pure DPS class is the same. Mages can spec Fire, and instead of using a Frost attack and a Frost PBAoE spell they can use a Fire attack and a Fire PBAoE spell. It's all the same. To be honest I find Survival Hunters quite a bit different from the others, with their emphasis on CC and mobility instead of standoff DPS.

To answer, I think the Enslave Beast idea has merit, and I rather think Blizzard might implement something similar. Two pets could be handled with either a second action bar or just directly slaved to your primary pet, effectively doubling your pet damage and spell pushback. Not particularly OP either, especially if it allows you to Enslave other Hunters' pets in Arena. That would make BM a hard counter to MM/SV, which would be interesting.

Personally I'd like to see more group buffing capability from ALL trees, and more burst damage for the class as a whole. Slow n steady is the way now but I'd like to see something like Aimed Shot on crack, a 2 or 3sec cast that causes a couple of debuffs and maybe a 1sec stun for spell interrupts, basically Conc+Arcane+Aimed Shot in a single ability with a longer cooldown.

Hunters in PvE are fine.

The only thing that I think should be looked at in a PvE sense about hunters is TSA. Instead of increasing attack power, it should increase Crit- because the amount of extra DPS crit adds scales with how much DPS you'd do without crit. Hit would only benefit dual-wield melee classes, since everyone is expected to be at hit cap otherwise.

Seeing the leaked "friends and family Alpha" patch notes for WOTLK, my expectations are that Blizzard will play around with hunters as an afterthought