This past week, Blizzard revealed another round of Hero Talent Trees in a Sneak Peek at the upcoming War Within system. Our Marksmanship Hunter guide writer, TheAzortharion, offers an early review of the Dark Ranger Hunter Hero Talents that offers more Aimed Shots but lacks the additional support to fire them.
Welcome to my little overview of the newly announced Dark Ranger Hero Talents from a Marksmanship Hunter perspective. This Hero Talent specialization is available to Marksmanship and Beast Mastery Hunters.
The Dark Ranger Hero Talents are focused around a new version of Black Arrow, a 30-second cooldown that applies a 16-second DoT, ticking for moderate Shadow damage every 2 seconds. Each tick has a chance to reset the cooldown of Aimed Shot, Marksmanship's bread-and-butter damaging ability. We are hugely limited by our ability to cast as many Aimed Shots as possible, so this could be strong for us.
The rest of the Hero Talent Tree focuses on various ways of dealing more Shadow damage, amplifying Black Arrow, and some especially exciting defensive and utility benefits. As we will see, the