Even More Hunter Changes In WoW Season of Discovery

Blizzard has added some more changes to the December 12 Patch for Season of Discovery. The update will feature some more changes to Hunters and their pets!

Even More Hunter Changes In WoW Season of Discovery
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Blizzard has decided to drop a pretty big patch on December 12th, which aims to buff and nerf a lot of the classes in World of Warcraft Season of Discovery. Hunters have been the stars of this update, as Blizzard has announced that they are going to be receiving even more changes. Here are all of the new changes coming to Hunters in Season of Discovery:

If you are interested in the rest of the patch notes, click here.

WoW Season of Discovery Hunter Changes
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New Hunter Changes in WoW Season of Discovery's December 12 Patch

Hunter

  • Hunter pet attack values have been updated to better scale with Hunter attack power.

Developers’ notes: Pets that cast spells such as scorpid poison or Lightning Breath were scaling too well and pets using physical abilities were scaling too little. We’ve now normalized the amount of attack power gained, to scale with the focus cost of individual pet abilities. This means that abilities with a higher focus cost, that are cast less often, will receive more benefit from attack power per attack than abilities with a lower focus cost that can generally be used more often. Overall this should level out the damage and reduce situations where some abilities were scaling too much or too little with hunter attack power.

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  • Scorpid poison now distributes the additional damage it gains from attack power evenly over each stack of Scorpid Poison on the target.

Developers’ notes: Previously, Scorpid poison received most of its benefit from the Hunter’s attack power in the very first stack. Now the additional damage gained from the controlling hunter will not be gained until the full 5 stacks of poison are on the target. This increases the ramp time a bit and makes it less immediately deadly in PvP.

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  • Pets now receive a smaller portion of a hunter’s armor and stamina.

Developers’ notes: Hunter pets were gaining far too much durability from hunter stats, to the point where some pets could get more than double the health and armor of a well-geared level 25 player. We still want dedicated hunters to have the ability to tank certain dungeon and raid encounters, but pets shouldn’t be so effective that they become the objectively correct choice.

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  • Aspect of the Lion has been redesigned and will now function as an Aura.

Developers’ notes: This means that it is possible to have Aspect of the Lion up in addition to another aspect, such as Aspect of the Hawk. As an offset to the lower amount of damage that some hunter pets will deal, and to make talents such as Improved Aspect of the Hunter more attractive to Hunters using Aspect of the Lion, we’re shifting Aspect of the Lion into an aura rather than an aspect. This change will go into effect with scheduled weekly maintenance tomorrow, but the tooltip will not yet change. In a later hotfix, we’ll rename relocalize Aspect of the Lion to “Heart of the Lion” and update the tooltip.

Those were all of the new changes coming to Hunters on December 12. This patch aims to rebalance Hunters and make them more fluid and fun to play. If you are interested in guides or news covering World of Warcraft Season of Discovery, check out the rest of our website!

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MMORPG
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PC
Release Date
Nov 23, 2004
Price
$49.99
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Blizzard Entertainment
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Blizzard Entertainment
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T