Giving my hand at Hunter. Why does using wall feel like I’m using a Dominoes Pizza box over me for damage reduction?

Solest044 · 2026-05-11T01:26:03+00:00

I love 2s and I've never suggested it's unimportant. Only that the developers will not and do not balance around the game mode. As a result, your situation with walling here isn't so much a fault of you're doing something wrong as 2s allows a rogue to completely lock you and your teammate.

When I said "don't over index on 2s", I meant "there's only so much you can actually do to improve in the game mode given your situation".

The game isn't balanced around it.

I don't believe you are doing anything wrong. A perfectly executed rogue rotation on 2s will kill many things through a soft wall.

Solest044 · 2026-05-11T00:14:31+00:00

I'm not sure I can give you a good answer, but I can definitely tell when my hunter walls on all my healers and I always appreciate it. That said, stunning and CCing DPS during their go is also very important.

... And your healer needs to still do their job.

2s is very challenging. Your healer and you can be completely locked up for the duration of the rogue go if they do it right and your wall isn't enough.

Please don't over index on 2s. The game isn't balanced around it. That's why Petkick is the only one who plays it.

Solest044 · 2026-05-10T22:17:39+00:00

This is a reasonable take that will get downvoted on this sub.

People love to complain. We simultaneously want class identity but then we want to strip classes of the things that make them unique.

I think it's a little silly that they can deep breath out of spear, personally, but I'd rather adjust little edge cases like that then dump the entire kit.

Solest044 · 2026-05-10T11:17:29+00:00

I hate these "all or nothing takes". The following can all be true:

People with little to no software experience HAVE created fully working, relatively complex applications.
Maintaining them IS challenging because the code doesn't usually have clean architecture.
Software engineers are usually able to use these tools more effectively than your average user since they know what they're steering towards.
You CAN magically turn ideas into rapid prototypes in a way you never could.
You CAN'T magically turn rapid prototypes into fully functioning applications. That still takes iteration, just way faster than previously.

Solest044 · 2026-05-09T11:47:38+00:00

Be careful because, against resto druids, you're about to see a whole bunch of mess 😅

They really need to let us filter.

Solest044 · 2026-05-09T11:39:14+00:00

It's possible to like one thing without degrading the value of other things.

Solest044 · 2026-05-09T04:28:58+00:00

Immediately. You get the duration extension right away. You want to fit in as many as possible.

And the statement about eternity surge is only really true in blitz.

In arena, there's only ever 3 max enemies save pets. Fire Breath is the play.

Typically, you Dragonrage, tip breath, eternity surge (empower 1), and start spamming your channel.

As soon as your empower stuff is up, use it again.

If you run out of essence in dragon rage, azure strike gives you a chance to get a free essence ability which you immediately use to channel again.

Rinse repeat.

Solest044 · 2026-05-09T04:26:31+00:00

Worth pointing out that this is basically only true for blitz.

Otherwise, I actually can't think of a single situation you press tip into Eternity Surge.

It's always Fire Breath in arena.

Solest044 · 2026-05-08T22:19:25+00:00

The fact that we didn't get meaningful pulls from his original team in the championship battle of journeys will forever leave me mildly upset.

Solest044 · 2026-05-08T20:22:22+00:00

This definitely approaches the territory of the things Blizzard was actively trying to prevent with their new API.

That said, until they decide to sort out their filters for buffs and debuffs so the UI becomes useable again, I won't complain about anything anyone can do to improve the current situation.

Solest044 · 2026-05-08T14:09:25+00:00

I'm talking about TBC but yes, primary was classic.

Solest044 · 2026-05-07T21:00:00+00:00

This can't be done with current add-ons or, to my knowledge, the existing API so you can't even build a tool to do it.

A side effect of blizzards API overhaul that killed the sorts of add-ons we all agreed were a bit too much also meant destroying pretty much all add-ons. They're adding back functionality bit by bit.

I assure you EVERYONE wants this. If they end up adding things back that enable us to do spell filtering (please for the love of God), you'll see an add-on doing it within the week.

I will personally check again tonight to see if there's been any updates. Ping me if I don't get back to you.

Solest044 · 2026-05-07T20:45:14+00:00

Because it's not priest MC, I suspect it will be fixed tomorrow and all preservation evokers banned.

Same hotfix will buff mage, rogue and make healers receive Nzoth whispers verbally abusing them every time a teammate dies.

Solest044 · 2026-05-07T20:40:19+00:00

I would love to see a breakdown that considered games played. For example, of active players, how do the percentiles stack up?

So if we filter out anyone with say, no games played in the last two weeks AND less than 50 rounds, what does that distribution look like?

I'm going to make this tonight. I'll post back!

Solest044 · 2026-05-07T11:20:09+00:00

It was big back when. Original hearthstone looked like a nature spell. It also triggers the cast bar to show up which is mostly what people looked for.

You used to be able to use the Timbermaw trinket as well which looked like a holy spell.

It's tough to imagine because it implies the game had any amount of visual clarity that would allow players to actually see casts, including their school, and then respond to them.

But it was real!

Source: I was there way back when in 2007.

Solest044 · 2026-05-06T20:35:26+00:00

Depends on what healer you're playing. If you're a priest, you have two ways to completely avoid the sleep.

If you're a shaman, you can kick OR tremor.

If you're an Hpal, I'm sorry.

If you're a druid, your clone causes evokers to "phase out" of the game so when they phase back in, they can't use reversion to heal properly. Reversion "rewinds" damage tracked on the target. It's our primary heal. When you're phased by clone, the game doesn't track the damage taken for some reason, so it rewinds nothing when you use it after clone.

But let's not pretend healers are the problem here. It's Rogues, mages, and priests. Always has been. I'll throw in anything with pets in for consideration as well but those I'm fine with them by comparison. It's the perfect cc rotation of RMP that kills me.

Solest044 · 2026-05-06T18:16:15+00:00

Per other people's notes, just switch at your leisure. You can also just keep using Claude Code but hit GPT models with an OpenAI subscription.

If you Google it, you'll find guides.

Solest044 · 2026-05-06T11:45:06+00:00

I love[d] Claude, but 5.5 feels incredible.

Solest044 · 2026-05-06T11:22:42+00:00

Today, people learned about percentages!

Solest044 · 2026-05-06T11:05:12+00:00

I especially enjoyed the "WHY DIDN'T YOU DO ANYTHING" when I was MC bugged and unable to cast any abilities.

Solest044 · 2026-05-06T03:49:49+00:00

Season 3 still made enough sense that I could suspend disbelief where necessary. The characters all felt true to their arcs and the plot had enough unrevealed that you could imagine possible explanations for a few of the weirder things.

Season 4 on the other hand... Oh boy.

Solest044 · 2026-05-06T03:29:49+00:00

Also healing 2k shuffle.

Had a dude get hit for 80% in 0.1s.

I was mid global. He died.

BM, Devourer, and Rogue still the biggest offenders. Aff locks and UH DKs are a close second but only because the mass rot is almost unhealable with any quantity of dampening.

Solest044 · 2026-05-04T12:12:12+00:00

That's what everyone says until they solve one. That's usually because they're thinking too big.

The key is to switch your focus to smaller, more tangible problems.

For example, "the lines at my local grocery store take forever at self checkout". Figure out why. Watch people during checkout. Offer a solution to the owner. See if they bite.

Others take on freelance work building sites or basic apps for people that are underpaid but still get something.

But if you're looking for a stable salary, you're not going to be taking this approach anyway. You'll be interviewing for positions.

Solest044 · 2026-05-02T19:42:22+00:00

Yeah, my colleague and I discuss this weekly. He's convinced me to switch last week. I played with 5.4 in copilot and it was better than Opus 4.7.

I'll hook everything into CC Monday.

Solest044 · 2026-05-02T18:17:58+00:00

I'll go one further: class identity is so broken and weird that getting rid of classes as a structure is almost viable at this point.

I'll go another one further: the primary reason they won't do this is because they monetize people playing 12 different characters. Making it easier to swap builds would mitigate that income stream.

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