Survival Hunter Review of Pack Leader Hero Talents - Persevering as a Pack of 2

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12 new Hero Talent Trees

Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. Blizzard has revealed an early preview of Hero Talents coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview

Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far. Check out all of our released Hero Talent reviews in our new Editorial Section.

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Pack Leader Survival Hunter ReviewPack Leaders are Hunters that use the instincts, knowledge, and respect they've gained over the years as they formed a deep bond and trust with the animals they adventure with. They bring a new style of ferocity and coordination to their combat, teaching their pet to strike their prey with simultaneous attacks.and coordinated attacks with their bonded beastNoteTheme and IdentityGameplay猫鼬撕咬杀戮命令撕咬爪击拍击Immediate Concerns

Compared to Beast Mastery, Survival uses 杀戮命令 far less and even our pet uses less Basic Attacks than our friends in BM, and thus will get presumably less frequent benefits of Pack Leader that hinges around these. We hope that this will be separately tuned similar to the differences in Destruction and Demonology's Soul Shard economy as mentioned in Diabolist Hero Tree discussion. We are hoping that the spec is not balanced around BM's quantity of Basic Attacks and is instead tuned separately for BM and Survival.

Related to the above point, the lower quantity of our pet's Basic Attack, the duration of might end up being a small worry as the 15% critical strike damage buff could outweigh normal gameplay considerations and incentive manual pet control to optimize the buff's duration.

Assuming there are no changes to 协同进攻 moving forward, this Hero talent tree might end up feeling very awkward. As discussed here, there are a few existing problems with this cooldown that needs to be addressed moving forward to make it feel more appealing to use and make builds around. (TL;DR CD requires a 3 part macro to use optimally, certain empowerments are weaker than others, bomb empowerment is bugged)

侧翼打击 seems to be taking a huge backseat here. As was the problem in Dragonflight, 侧翼打击 did not benefit from any talents that synergize with 杀戮命令, despite 侧翼打击 more or less being a stronger 杀戮命令 with a longer cooldown. As Pack Leader almost entirely revolves around 杀戮命令, it will be very hard to find the time to use this.

As mentioned just above, really needs to be a free Basic Attack or Survival simply won't be able to afford the fun parts of the tree. We do assume it will be free, but you can never be too careful with clarity!

杀戮命令 plays a very different role for us versus Beast Mastery's Kill Command—for us it is a generator rather than a spender. Now, we have not yet had any chance to playtest any of these talents, but it seems as though 杀戮命令 will reset quite a lot more than normal, especially during 协同进攻 where the + is the most frequent. The primary issue here is that we already hit a near 0-downtime-rotation, even without talenting into things like 高度集中 and 捕食者头领, so more opportunities to hit our generator (our weakest ability) as opposed to BM resetting their strongest spender is quite a stark difference, and isn't necessarily ideal. This could result in an overabundance of Focus faster than we can spend it, which doesn't really feel fun for anyone. There's not a real easy solution yet, so we're excited to play test and see how it feels in practice!

PACK LEADER NODE ANALYSISKeystone: Keystone杀戮命令杀戮命令杀戮命令杀戮命令杀戮命令very important协同进攻协同进攻damage残酷伙伴mechanical disadvantagenumerical/tuning灵龟守护优胜劣汰治疗宠物治疗宠物荒野医疗治疗宠物灵龟守护Choice Node:

猎豹守护猎豹守护逃脱迅疾如风鱼叉猛刺猎豹守护OR

逃脱突刺雄鹰守护杀戮命令杀戮命令捕食者头领杀戮命令杀戮命令锐矛之锋致命搭档雄鹰之怒快速射击杀戮命令杀戮命令利矛之刃Choice Node:

屠戮屠戮狂乱打击野火炸弹屠戮狂乱打击削凿削凿OR

屠戮削凿野火炸弹野火炸弹夺命射击夺命射击觅血者内出血殷红裂创狙击高手锯齿射击协同进攻夺命射击猛禽狩猎协同进攻锯齿射击Choice Node:

猎人生存职业套装四件套猫鼬撕咬猫鼬之怒杀戮命令杀戮命令OR

协同进攻two minutes狂野怒火侧翼打击雄鹰之怒杀戮命令动物伙伴Keystone: 协同进攻TWO 猫鼬撕咬杀戮命令TWO杀戮命令猫鼬撕咬协同进攻猫鼬撕咬猫鼬撕咬协同进攻锐矛之锋协同进攻锐矛之锋夺命射击野火炸弹致命搭档Trueshot LodgeVicious HuntPack CoordinationHowl of the PackWild AttacksDen RecoveryTireless HuntCornered PreyFrenzied TearCovering FireScattered PreyCull the HerdFurious AssaultBeast of OpportunityPack Assault

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