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atomicwolf22
I just recently came back from a break, so I just noticed that, well, hunters don't have volley anymore? What happened? Whats our new AoE spell? I keep thinking I have it, then I dont, so I have died too often.
Your have to use Muilt. Shoot now. Blizz thought it was to OP.
Post by
izuul
Multi-shot is way better than Volley anyway.
Post by
Interest
Multi-Shot is okay.
At least now it's excusable as to why it breaks CC now lawl.
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Post by
izuul
Multi-Shot is okay.
At least now it's excusable as to why it breaks CC now lawl.
Personally, I really like it. It's strong and it's a lot easier to use than Volley was. Volley used to drive me crazy on fights like XT with moving adds packs. I would have to recast it like every 3 seconds b/c the bots would run right through it. Now you just pick one in the middle and unload.
It's also cool that there are several talents that can improve MS in different ways whereas that really wasn't possible with the design of Volley.
Post by
matheus314
I prefer MS too.
I like when there is like 100 mobs comming, and you spam MS, sending them to hell very quick.
Post by
Lorkin
I liked the utility of volley, you could almost use it around corners (well sorta). Plus coupled with the mana we had, we could spam it a lot more.
But in the end, I think Multishot comes out ahead. Right now it's in a good place I think, in terms of damage and focus use (at least with MM). Also graphically it makes more sense, since you are firing like the amazon from D2 vs what use to look like a caster's aoe.
There's something to get excited about when you use multishot in Tol Barad against the opposing faction at the right moment when there's a million of them all packed close together by the flag. It looks like the spread shot in contra, lol.
Post by
Doring
I just recently came back from a break, so I just noticed that, well, hunters don't have volley anymore? What happened? Whats our new AoE spell? I keep thinking I have it, then I dont, so I have died too often.
Your have to use Muilt. Shoot now. Blizz thought it was to OP.
More like Ghostcrawler thought it looked too un-hunter like and some other manure about how it wasn't realistic and so on. Magic arrows falling from the sky was unrealistic compared to things like summoning a herd of undead ghouls no matter where you are to attack your target, giant demons can swing massive weapons at you and you can parry them with a dagger and not get knocked around or any number of other game effects including gnomes.
I liked volley, there wasn't anything wrong with it. MS is a bit of a pain and to me isn't as effective at massed mobs. ~shrug~
Post by
kemppy
i hated volley, i would never use it, cos i didnt think that was the only way we had to get dps
oh wow a hunter he should spam /volley...........i think not
Post by
freedfromthereal
Multi Shot is the new go-to for AoE, and once you start using it, you'll find that it really blows Volley out of the water in terms of utility and usability. It doesn't constrain our movement, deals truckloads of damage, and can be woven in with a few Steady Shots to do both single-target and multi-target damage reasonably well.
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Interest
i hated volley, i would never use it, cos i didnt think that was the only way we had to get dps
oh wow a hunter he should spam /volley...........i think not
At least it ignored deadzone.
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Lorkin
Back in the day I could gather a whole herd of Mammoths with my Gorilla (back when it was the only pet with Thunderstomp) get into melee range and AoE them all down with Volley spam. It didn't matter if you pulled aggro; Volley would still work in melee range. You just can't do that now.
Nowadays you must cast Misdirection to your pet or else it's a big hassle if you pull aggro, and you get usually 2-3 casts of Multi-Shot before you run out of focus and have to go single target. If your current target dies you have to manually target the next one since they completely removed auto-target from Hunters in the last patch.
I was farming those Mammoths recently (trying to level my cooking) as well as the spirit packs in Icecrown this weekend farming Frostweave. As MM I could spam MS and the mobs were basically dead before they got to me, as well as with rapid recup I was at full focus by the end of the fight. It was basically spam city, and the part that took the longest was looting the mobs. They should allow pets to auto loot for us btw, even if it's vanity pets.
We got hit with not only a removal of volley, but the mana to focus change. Could you even imagine using volley with focus, would be just too sluggish imo. There's also the dead zone issue, which imo they should just remove. Rift hunters didn't have a dead zone, and I would gladly welcome it if they changed that. It's just odd for raid mechanics when everyone is called in to stack up during a fight, with the exception of hunters who can't due to "smart" design. Really, I mean just get rid of it already.
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Post by
Malasia
Multi-shot is the new volley, and as far as I know it doesn't have a GCD, so its a bit better than channeling volley.
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