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This week’s Beta and PTR builds include some updates for Marksmanship Hunters, notably their generation and spending of Focus, and updates to some of the more problematic talents.In Battle for Azeroth,
急速射击’s focus generation and the Master Marksman talent increase the amount of available Focus you have a by a decent amount, which almost pushes
狙击高手 generation away from being necessary at all. Now:
- 瞄准射击 Focus Cost increased to 35 (was 30).
- 奥术射击 and 多重射击 Focus cost increased to 20 (was 15).
- 急速射击 duration lowered to 2 seconds (was 3 seconds). Total damage dealt by Rapid Fire should be unchanged.
The above changes should cause you to spend a bit more Focus, and passively generate less from Rapid Fire.Several talent changes are also coming to both prop up some underused talents, and replace others:Level 15 Row:
- Redesigned: 狙击高手 (Passive) – Your critical shots cause your target to bleed for 15% of the damage dealt over 6 seconds.
- 毒蛇钉刺’s duration increased to 18 seconds (was 12 seconds).
Level 25 Row:
- 精确瞄准 has had the low health benefit removed as it felt redundant with 夺命射击 returning. Additionally, the high health threshold has been lowered to 70% (was 80%).
Level 35 Row:
- Redesigned: 稳固集中 – Casting Steady Shot twice in a row now increases your haste by 7% for 10 seconds.
- Redesigned: 行云流水 (Passive) – Rapid Fire damage is increased by 15%, and Rapid Fire now also reduces the cast time of your next Aimed Shot by 30%.
- 奇美拉射击 now replaces 奥术射击.
Chimaera Shot’s cooldown has been removed for Marksmanship Hunters. It has a Focus cost of 20. - Chimaera Shot should work with everything that Arcane Shot works with, such as 弹无虚发, or any Torghast Power, or Legendary effect.
- Chimera Shot no longer causes both the Frost and Nature attack to hit a single target. This is a bug fix.
Level 45 Row
- 致命射击 proc chance has been increased to 30% (was 20%).
Level 50 Row
- 荷枪实弹’s proc chance has been increased to 8% (was 5%).
The above talent changes should open up some diversity in talent choices, and Chimaera Shot replacing Arcane shot opens up some alternate 2-target cleave options without increasing your action bar bloat.