In the Official Warcraft Beta Classes Forum, Jujubiju wrote, “The casted black arrow is a bad change.”
For starters, it has an AoE ability tacked onto it. Now, unless you plan on making the Yor’sahj model of fight a constant thing (adds right next to the boss), the AoE component makes no sense. When I target change for AoE, that means the mobs have to get down as quickly as possible. A casted AoE doesn’t help with the “as quickly as possible” thing. Also, AoE has a tendency to break CC; making the healer and the tank’s job more of a hassle.
There is no cool down. The only cool down we have for black arrow is on the target. I know we can obviously set up a power aura to keep track of this, but there are still people (whether new or old players) that don’t use addons. At least with the shot itself having a cool down, we had a way of knowing when to cast it on the target again.
Aspect of the Fox: the current black arrow model is in no way attached to fox, which means we aren’t able to cast it on the go (since we have tank that like to move- a lot). Which means on movement fights, I can’t use it. […]
Ghostcrawler replied: “We agree with you that the redesigned Black Arrow hasn’t worked out well yet, and even overlaps a little with the new Powershot talent. We are likely to revert Black Arrow to the 4.3 design.”
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Nice, I’m very happy with this. :-) The change had put me a bit off SV. It gave a bit of a MM/aimed shot-feel to it. As I’ve identified Aimed Shot to be the one thing that makes me not like MM, ofc I didn’t like this either. :-)
Anyway, it is indeed nice that they’re looking at every ability and evaluating if it should be changed. It keeps things fresh and interesting. At the same time, also very nice when they realise something doesn’t work, and keep the old model.
Lae
I agree with you – I actually just wrote about this. I was not happy with MoP Black Arrow in the slightest, and until an hour ago was planning on completely dropping SV in MoP because of it.
I feel differently about Aimed Shot – I like how powerful it is currently with Rapid Fire/Readiness, or during Heroism. BA, you apply and do other stuff for half a minute. Aimed Shot can, on the other hand, do some major, major damage if used like that. :)