Tooltip displays damage based on RAP.
Actual damage proc is determined by melee AP.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1053804-the-damage-of-Vial-of-Shadow-for-hunters
/sadface.
4.3.2 just had a decent victory for Hunters through Vial of Shadows fix and Arcane Shot removed from Lock and Load. Lock and Load not being caused by Arcane Shot is an intentional change. As many players have pointed out, there is just no need for it any longer. We also intend to make sure Black Arrow is used over Explosive Trap, probably by buffing Black Arrow slightly. We are looking a lot at hunter DPS right now. We think it is in a good place when compared to other ranged DPS specs (in equivalent gear), but falls short when compared to ranged DPS with Dragonwrath. The guilds currently posting heroic combat logs have a lot of Dragonwraths, and unfortunately, hunters are the only ranged DPS who don’t have access to a legendary weapon. When more hunters have Deathwing weapons, their DPS will go up compared to the Dragonwrath users who won’t be upgrading their weapons, and we’ll see what hunter performance looks like. It’s likely that future legendaries won’t be usable by so many classes and specs. For the present situation, one option is to just buff hunters to make up for their inability to have legendary weapons, but when you look at DPS casters who have no legendary, it's a tough option to take. We’re not sure yet of the future of the attack power buff in Mists of Pandaria, but in the short term we want to make sure that there are some situations where melee can do really high DPS rather than routinely coming in below ranged DPS (which is how we felt about the last two raid tiers). If we buff hunters, it will more likely be through other avenues. |
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I don't normally talk about class balance a whole lot on the forums, but I've got to say that if hunter DPS were to be boosted I would like to see it done differently as well. Buffing something like, say, Flintlocke's Woodchucker would give us the short term buff we need for the duration of Cataclysm while not interfering with possible Mists of Pandaria balancing. It would also ensure that all hunters (assuming they had the enchant) would see a boost to DPS, regardless of whether or not they were marksmanship spec with Trueshot Aura or had another class with the attack power buff available. ________________________________________________ The wise speak only of what they know. - J.R.R. Tolkien CORE I7 3.8GHz | 12GB RAM | ATI 5970+5870 | F120 SSD Live WoW Tech Support: irc://chat.freenode.net/wowtech |