Ghostcrawler Tweets on Hunter Ability Bloat

Ghostcrawler has been tweeting about hunter ability bloat over the past few days:

@ghostcrawler any chance on removing some hunter ability bloat in 6.0? (maybe before?) seems too many buttons since MoP — silver (@silvertongue0) April 1, 2013

@silvertongue0 We tried to remove some before but still get “Bring back Eyes of the Beast!” requests. We’ll try again. — Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) April 1, 2013

@silvertongue0 We think the core rotation buttons are fine. There are a LOT of situational hunter buttons though. — Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) April 1, 2013

@ghostcrawler when I complain about bloat, I mean abilities that are part of my dps rotation, like Glaive, DireBeast, Crows, Stampede. — Kenneth Wilson (@KxWilson) April 1, 2013

@kxwilson You have a passive option to Dire Beast. We could add one to the Crows row. Rapid Fire and Readiness could probably be pruned. — Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) April 1, 2013

@ghostcrawler any change you make, you’ll have a portion of the hunter base complaining, I wouldn’t want to be on you shoes. :( — Kenneth Wilson (@KxWilson) April 1, 2013

@kxwilson Yup. All the hunters happy with the number of buttons (or specific ones) won’t say much until they are gone. — Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) April 2, 2013

@ghostcrawler @silvertongue0 If you don’t want to use EOTB you don’t have to, but having readiness means the class has to use it for bestDPS — Mark Grocholski (@Grapzar) April 2, 2013

@grapzar Sure, but we could buff every shot to compensate and call it a day. Hunters have plenty of ways to demonstrate skill these days. — Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) April 2, 2013

@holinka Whilst I’m still on, if @ghostcrawler is going to remove readiness, will it be replaced with a defensive?Pet Sack Shield/heal :)? — Chris (@Seriouslytwitte) April 2, 2013

@seriouslytwitte @holinka Readiness was a theoretical example, not anything you need to start worrying about negotiating. :) — Greg Street (@Ghostcrawler) April 3, 2013