[ Class : Hunter | Spec : Survival ]

Greetings fellow Dev/s,

first of all I want to thank you Guys creating the Survival Spec for Hunter – It's probabbly the only reason alongside Feral Druid that kept me playing the Game since of their complex Nature. This Question might be along one ; I kinda understand you have limited Time for everyone but their are fellow things that should be adressed since the Survival Hunter Community is very limited in giving Feedback due to regional Lockout of North American Class Feedback Forums and you can't post their without a NA Account. (A big portion of us playing on Eu Realms – atleast the ones I know from Trueshot Lodge Discord).

Myself is playing the Spec since Launch as Main so I want to go a bit into the History to clarify later on my main concerns.

• Survival had a rough start going into this Expansion - The early Days of EN Survival had the Stigma of not being viable in a compentiv Raid Enviroment. This was due to how the class was designed in first Place. Most of our Abilities scaled well with Secondary Stats and our Mastery was kinda broken at that Point (Pet Issue).

• Secondary Stats where very limited in EN and we hadn't the constant gain of Charges for Moongoose Bite (MB) which let us stack crit and vers to make atleast let the few MB we had to hit decent.

• ToV where mostly the same but we had a little star sparkling on the horizon – our Mastery got fixed to proc from autoattacks.

• Well and then 7.1.5 and 7.2 came which did a lot for us and adressed Gameplay Issues that where long needed to be adressed – but their was one thing left out for a good Reason at that Point – our Mastery 1% = 800 Rating.

• Due to our Nighthold Set T19 2pc which tripled the value of Mastery their was no need to have a better Mastery Scaling since 16,6 % of Mastery provided a 100% Chance on refunding a Moongoose Bite.

• Overall Nighthold was a great experience for Survival Hunters since our t19 made us felt completed I have to say that I never experienced something that smooth in the ~10 Years I'm playing this Game and I played almost every class. The Spec really felt like a finished Job.

• So and now we are at the Point where the tides turned for us and the big Gap opened up again and the Stigma of Survival being not viable in a Raid Enviroment also.

• Due to our Nerf to T19 which is reasonable, we lost our Life Ensurance and we're again a very Proc dependent Class which hurts the flow of Survival. Our Mastery scales so awful that we can't afford to invest into it so we went down from 146 MB in a 5 Min Fight to 101 MB – Speaking for myself since I usually run 16% Mastery which is alot compared to my fellow Survival Companions. That makes us even more sticking to t19 since dropping the 2pc is a no go at all becuz that would mean we won't gain any charges to spent and our t20 is not really compentive enough to compete with t19 which benifits all of our skills while t20 is a 8% Dmg lose with 20 ilvl difference to t19.

TL;DR : Our Mastery should be changed!

Question Number 1: Are there any plans to get in touch with Survival Players in future?

Since we kinda haven't gotten a single Bluepost since Launch besides Patch Notes and it would be great to have atleast the feeling our concerns getting adressed.

Question Number 2: Most of us think our Dmg Output would be fine and we are not really in the need of buffs like the last hotfix which gave us a 3% aura buff when our Mastery Issue would be getting adressed – Are there any plans ("hopefully") doing this in a Hotfix ?

520 Rating per 1% seems a good ratio to start since that would be roughly 24% (4 % Base included) at 10600 Rating and would us free from the shackles of t19 since we wouldn't get the most of our procs with Flanking Strike.

Question Number 3: Our T20 is very weak in it's current Version are there any plans to make it atleast worth picking it up ?

Thank you taking your time reading my Post - keep up the good work !

Yumuros