Cobra Shot is interesting for PvP
Our new abilities seem more targeted at filling the quality of life or “neat!” roles rather than filling in gaps in the class. Cobra Shot is certainly interesting for PvP eyeglasses , but in PvE where boss armor is normalized, hunters will just figure out which shot does more damage (Steady or Cobra) and only ever use that shot. eyeglasses, As an aside, Cobra Shot shares a cooldown with Steady Shot … which doesn’t have a cooldown. We can be pretty sure that they aren’t adding a cooldown to steady and this is just Blizzard mis-speaking.
The trap launcher eyeglasses , something we’ve heard about before, is a big hit in the “neat” category. Flinging any trap of our choosing, and off of the global cooldown, is sweet and has a lot of situational uses. eyeglasses, However, it doesn’t have much in the way regular uses in most of our boss fights.
Question on this ability: the cooldown is one minute, longer than our trap cooldown — that’s fine and makes sense. But if I “launch” a trap and 50 seconds later I drop a trap normally … in 10 seconds glasses , my trap-launching cooldown is free, but my trap is on cooldown. Can I still launch? (I know, I know, probably not, but I can dream).
Camouflage is another ability that we’ve heard about in the distant past and is another neatish ability with a lot of PvP uses. glasses, In fact, with the new Careful Aim that BM is getting, you can almost see the old “Shadowmeld / 3 sec Aimed Shot opener” from vanilla strat coming back (except eye glasses , you know, you won’t be invisible or stealthed). I dig Camouflage and I can totally see lots of neat little uses for it — just like I have lots of neat little uses for my Nitro Boosts — but again, it’s not really changing our PvE play significantly. eye glasses, After all, if anything is attacking us in PvE, we’ve done something horribly wrong.
So while I have no problems with our new abilities — there’s nothing bad about them, they’re all good — I just can’t get really excited about it since their PvE impact is so minimal. I would be more interested if they found a way to make Cobra Shot something that we actually made decisions about in PvE sto credit , but I’m pretty convinced that we’ll always use one or the other (and BM will always just use Cobra). sto credit, On the other hand, if you PvP, Cobra Shot and Camouflage are going to be excellent new tools for the toolbox and give you more depth of strategy!