This past week, Blizzard revealed another round of Hero Talent Trees in a Sneak Peek at the upcoming War Within system. Our Beast Mastery Hunter guide writer, Tarlo, offers an early review of the Dark Ranger Hunter Hero Talents that elevates the archer class fantasy but feels unrewarding and lacks integration with pets.
Hello! The aim of this piece is to do a rundown of the Dark Ranger tree for Beast Mastery Hunters. All in all, it's a decently thematic tree that does about as much as you can within the scope of a Hero Talent Tree. While there's some disagreement on whether the theme fits Beast Mastery it's nevertheless an anticipated theme that fits within the vague commonality of Beast Mastery and Marksmanship being «archers». But without further ado:
Keystone
: A relatively simple ability that is a callback to the older Black Arrow, but with a fairly different effect. This mostly works on a rotational level but more Barbed Shots is a fairly boring reward all things considered, as it's already such a frequent button in our rotation. I will break down why this is an issue