Housing Blueprints
Introduction
Welcome to the Method Marksmanship Hunter guide written by me, Qenjua. I've been a Hunter main for the past 8 years. I’m occasionally streaming both Progress as well as high Mythic +. If you want deeper insights into this class, that the guide might not be able to provide, you can find my coaching on: https://metafy.gg/@qenjua. Feel free to join my Metafy Group; this is where I will be sharing updates on my UI, as well as some tips and tricks.
Marksmanship Hunter Overview
Marksmanship Hunter has fairly high mobility since Aimed Shot is the only cast you have to stand in place for. This class also grants a bunch of unique utilities such as, Binding Shot with Horsehair Tether, Freezing Trap, Misdirection, and Harrier's Cry, as well as an immunity Aspect of the Turtle, a Freedom with Master's Call and a damage redirection ability with Roar Of Sacrifice.
The weakness of this spec is that you need at least 3 targets for your Multi-Shot to trigger Trick Shots to start doing AoE damage, or alternatively, only be able to hit 2 targets at the same time without any required setup through Aspect Of The Hydra. The spec is also very focused around its cooldowns, making it comparably weak outside of these windows.
What has changed
Patch 12.1 Changes for Marksmanship Hunter
Marksman received a slight rework in 12.1.
Most notably, Explosive Shot is back as a reworked ability. It is now a damage over time spell that explodes for aoe damage every couple of seconds. Aimed Shot does significantly less damage, while Rapid Fire deals significantly more among a few other changes:
- Double Tap has been removed.
- Our final Apex Talent has been reworked to make Rapid Fire able to profit from Spotter's Mark, instead of granting Aimed Shot 100% Critical Strike chance.
- Aspect Of The Hydra no longer effects Arcane Shot.
- Deathblow received a slight rework. It now procs, to let you know that your next Aimed Shot will grant you access to a free Kill Shot/Black Arrow.
- The Headshot mechanic has been removed, which is a giant quality of life improvement for Dark Ranger specifically.
Alongside these, we received a huge buff to our Auto-Attack damage; and in order to pick up Tenacious (our defensive node on the MM-Tree), we now need to sacrifice another damage talent.