4.0.6 Hunter Changes,

[Antonelli]

Wondering what your thoughts on the new patch notes for 4.0.6. The nerfs to survival and buffs to marksman, do you see it ever being viable? And if you do, would stats be the same?

[Esséx]

Is the nerf so bad so we have to change to MM or BM or are Surv still the best pve specc for hunters?

[Antonelli]

Was on the PTR in my gear ( 356 equipped ) and it still seems that Survival is best.
Tested MM and then survival, survival did more.

[Kruf]

Wondering what your thoughts on the new patch notes for 4.0.6. The nerfs to survival and buffs to marksman, do you see it ever being viable? And if you do, would stats be the same?

We'll have to see until it's on live, as it's not easy to get a realistic test scenario to happen on PTR, I suspect. For MM I think the stat values would be quite different, due to completely different mastery mechanic for example.

Was on the PTR in my gear ( 356 equipped ) and it still seems that Survival is best.
Tested MM and then survival, survival did more.

Testing without raidbuffs and full debuffs on target is worthless, as the specs have very different scaling from buffs and debuffs. Also if you want to claim something better than the other, please post some data too.