Ranged weapons can now proc

[softwillow]

I know it is a minor point, but the boards are slow and there are lots of hunters here...

Are there others excited about Blizzard figuring out how to make ranged weapons have a proc (see the new Hurricane)? Could enchants on ranged weapons be far away? Or more interesting variations?

[FoghornDeadhorn]

Not bad. I know a self-loathing hunter who, among his arm-long list of gripes about his crippled shitty class, had the fact that they didn't have ranged procs.

Thank god hunters will be viable again.

[buttface]

but can they enchant their BW pets with crusader???????

[mek]

Well, now they have SOME way of differentiating between ranged weapons, other than speed and ... yeah, speed.

[boy-]

I don't really think this is a huge technological breakthrough or anything, proc on ranged attacks is nothing new and nothing difficult. Putting it on a weapon probably isn't any harder than putting it say gloves (hello black grasp).

See for example black grasp of the destroyer, improved aspect of the hawk, improved concussion shot, and 8/8 dragonstalker bonus.

I'd say the choice to not have procs on ranged weaps was more a conscious choice than some technology problem.

[Zarcath]

I seem to recall the haste enchant for gloves was broken, didn't affect ranged and made your melee attack speed worse?

In any case they'll probably seperate melee and ranged enchants.

[Cad]

WTB ranged enchant that adds 100 agi for 10 seconds and has a 6ppm rate. I'll be generous and leave off the healing aspect.

[mek]

Originally Posted by Cad

WTB ranged enchant that adds 100 agi for 10 seconds and has a 6ppm rate. I'll be generous and leave off the healing aspect.

Yay for comparing mechanics which have no reason to be compared. What is this, General Discussion?

That enchant is all yours - but you have to trade your 30sec cooldown aggro wipe for it. Deal?

[orcmauler]

Originally Posted by mek

Yay for comparing mechanics which have no reason to be compared. What is this, General Discussion?

That enchant is all yours - but you have to trade your 30sec cooldown aggro wipe for it. Deal?

let me guess you are a rogue amirite?

This has the potential to making the playing field even for hunters who can now decide on +agil enchants for "steady" dps, or the equivalent of Crusader enchant for "burst" dps.

Granted this all depends on how far they go with the ranged weapon changes.

Oh i just wanted to add: Tonite in AQ, my feign death was either resisted or outright failed (due to a bug it seems) nearly every pull. Sum total deaths=8. So feel free to take my oh so uber aggro wipe if it means i can enchant my gun with Crusader, PLEASE.

[Zehn - Vhex]

I'd just rather every mob in the game have Nef's hunter call. It should become standard.

[Drauk]

Originally Posted by Cad

WTB ranged enchant that adds 100 agi for 10 seconds and has a 6ppm rate. I'll be generous and leave off the healing aspect.

Crusader has 1ppm proc rate.

[Zarcath]

Originally Posted by Drauk

Crusader has 1ppm proc rate.

Not if you have dual enchants!

[Quineloe]

is your +3 hit enchant not good enough ? =P

[WarderX]

Originally Posted by Zarcath

Not if you have dual enchants!

Or have any instant attacks at all

PS: Just a pet peeve I have with this board, but 99% of the hunters on here seem absolutely retarded at grasping the simplest concepts of game mechanics. It hurts my brain.
(this has nothing to do with the above posts, just something I notice on here every time)

[Makata]

Originally Posted by Quineloe

is your +3 hit enchant not good enough ? =P

I'm going to hope this is sarcasm. ><

Something to the equivalent of crusader wouldn't so THAT much unless they stick to a ppm, since there's so fewer shots in a minute period than there are swings, unless serpent, conc, etc count as shots for proccing purposes, in which case I'll just start spamming rank 1 serpent at 13 mana on the run for 40 shots per minute + auto.

I'd much rather see them take a slightly different route with ranged enchants if for nothing else than flavor. Maybe very very mild effects that work on EVERY auto shot (not multis, aimeds, arcanes, etc). Some examples could be a 15-20 damage proc, a 5-10 mana restore, 15 hp heal, etc. My favorite, since I'm such a viper sting whore in pvp, would be a 20 mana drain, or some such.

Edit: And I just realized this would finally give some purpose to fast bows since the normalization achieved nothing but nerf the best.