{"id":420,"date":"2010-04-27T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrallatemybaby.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:51:18","slug":"wow-cataclysm-hunter-class-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"WoW: Cataclysm Hunter Class Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saved the best for last! (ok, so I’m a bit partial to Hunters, what can I say).<\/p>\n

The biggest change is the removal of Ammo from Hunters this was supposed to be done awhile back, but Blizz didn’t get it done (technically, I think it didn’t work the way they had hoped it would, as far as providing the ammo bonuses without having the ammo present).\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, we got no quiver\/ammo pouches needed and ammo stacking to 1000, which are both good things.<\/p>\n

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Link to Original Announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the upcoming World of Warcraft: Cataclysm many game elements will be changing, and each class will be receiving a number of tweaks. Here, we will explore the changes that are being made to the gun-wielding, pet-training hunter. The information you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to read is certainly not complete, and is only meant to act as a preview of some of the exciting new things to come. Without further ado, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take a look at the new hunter abilities!<\/span><\/p>\n

New Hunter Abilities<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

Cobra Shot (level 81)<\/strong> : A new shot that deals Nature damage instead of Physical damage. This ability will share a cooldown with Steady Shot. This will give hunters an alternative to Steady Shot on heavily-armored targets, and we will have talent incentives in the Beast Mastery tree to make this a signature shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trap Launcher (level 83)<\/strong> : When used, the next trap can be shot to a location within 40 yards. This provides the current Freezing Arrow treatment to all traps and, as a result, we will be removing the current ability Freezing Arrow. 1-minute cooldown. No global cooldown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Camouflage (level 85)<\/strong> : The hunter enters an obscured state that prevents him or her from taking ranged damage. The character would still be subject to melee or area-of-effect attacks, and dealing or taking damage will break the Camouflage effect. The hunter can move and set traps when under Camouflage, and will receive a damage bonus when attacking while under Camouflage (which will then break the effect). <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the second time Blizzard has tried to give us Camouflage, the previous incarnation was more of a copy of a Rogue’s stealth ability, this time, it’s different.. you can still be seen, but can’t be hit with ranged attacks (except AoE)..\u00c2\u00a0 I think it’ll be cool and it’ll make for some good opening attack possibilities in PvP.<\/p>\n

Trap launcher is simply Blizzard expanding on a good idea (freezing arrow) to allow ranged deployment of all our Traps.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how (if?) Blizzard changes the shared cooldowns amongst the traps as a result of this.<\/p>\n

While I think Hunters (in general), have more than enough buttons to bind\/click (whatever your playstyle is).. another shot is always good.\u00c2\u00a0 It’ll be interesting to see how they set up the BM talents to buff Cobra Shot, since Blizzard has been pretty clear that because of how easy BM is to play, they don’t want it’s damage output to be equal to Survival or Marksman.<\/p>\n

Resource Mechanic Change<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Here we come to the meat of the upcoming hunter changes.<\/p>\n