Patch 5.4 Hunter Changes

With the new Patch 5.4 there will be some very interesting changes. I would like to share them with you and make some comments about them.

The first change is about the Arcane shot:

"Spell Changes
 Arcane Shot: An instant shot that causes 100% --> 150% weapon damage plus 2306 as Arcane damage."

So as you can see this will be very big boost in the DPS ,because all spec of hunters use it .

Next I will talk about the talent changes:

"Talents and Specialization

 Aspect of the Iron Hawk: The Hunter takes on the aspects of an iron hawk, increasing ranged attack power by 25%, and reducing all damage taken by 15%-->10%. Only one Aspect can be active at a time. Replaces Aspect of the Hawk.

 Spirit Bond: While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 2%-->3% of total health every 2 sec."

Aspect of the iron hawk was very good in both PVP and PVE ,but according to Blizzard this talent is overpowered ,so they will reduce it from 15 to 10 % DMG reduction.
The increasing of 1% in the Spirit bond talent is not very major and I don't think that this will make the talent more useful.

Now it is time for the Glyphs. There are some very interesting changes:

"Glyph of Mend Pet: Gives your Mend Pet ability a 50%-->100% chance of cleansing 1 Curse, Disease, Magic or Poison effect from your pet each tick.

 Glyph of No Escape: Increases the ranged critical strike chance of all of your attacks on targets affected by your Freezing Trap by 20%-->100%."

I'm not going to comment the Mend Pet Glyph ,because the other one is much more interesting for me.
The change in the Glyph of No Escape is more than epic. With this Glyph now we hunters will have 100% critical strike on targets affected by Freezing Trap. This will make this glyph more than useful in PVP in both Battlegrounds and Arenas.

For me this is the most important change and I can't wait to try it. :)

The Blink strikes change

I want to talk about the big change with the hunter active talent called Blink strike. As a BM hunter in PVP ,this was one of my favorite spells. The 600% damage was crazy and in a combination with Intimidation the amount of pressure on the enemy was enormous.

I haven't tried the new spell called Blink strikes and I can't really tell is it better or worse. I just liked the old one so much that I don't think that this change is for good.

Yes we will be able to use it more often ,but the burst of damage won't be even close.

I can admit one better thing and it is fast target switch. Now pets are going to be like bouncing balls in the arena games.

Only time will tell how will the new talent work for us. Is it better to have greater burst of damage or increase base damage. I will be happy to hear you opinion in the comments below. Enjoy the new Patch and keep hunting :)

Main hunter spell changes-build 15913

Perhaps you all have seen the new spell changes for the hunters. I won't talk about all of them, I just want to share my opinion about some of the main hunter spells.

Lets start with Arcane shot: An instant shot that causes 65%->110% weapon damage plus 4611-> 4985 as Arcane damage.

This is something big for Survival and BM hunters. I think that Arcane shot is one of the most important spells for Beast mastery hunters and the increasing of the damage of the spell will improve the damage of the BM hunters in total numbers.

Next is my favorite Powershot: You wind up a powerful shot, which deals 400%->800% weapon damage to the target and 100%->200% weapon damage to all enemies in between you and the target. Enemies hit by Powershot are also knocked back.

So what can I say about this one....? The damage of the spell is doubled ! I can't even imagine what will hunters make with such a forse and I can't even think how much will it hurt when we use Powershot on our prey. Blizzard had made this spell even more wanted. I don't know for you ,but for me the choise for the 90 lvl talent has been made.

The Aimed shot-one of my favorite spells....and now the changes is -->  A powerful aimed shot that deals 160%400% ranged weapon damage plus 9432 to 10508.

Blizzard had chaned Aimed shot many,many times ,but this one is only a pure damage injection. Most people use Aimed shto for two things:
1) Starting shot
2) When you have enough stacks of Master Marksman effect ( The needed stacks were reduced from 5 to 3 with build 15913).

And the last shot is the Chimera shot: An instant shot that causes 115%->300% ranged weapon Nature damage plus RAP*0.732+1795, refreshing the duration of your Serpent Sting and healing you for 3% of your total health.


As I play MM hunter you can be sure that I love this shot. Here we have increased damage and reduced healing. I can say that this is fair ,because in MoP we hunter will be able to heal ourselfs with other spell ,no with Chimera shot only.


This post is not about all the changes . You all propably had seen them,but I just wanted to talk about some of the spells that I like the most.Cheers and keep hunting !