Originally Posted by takel

My selfish wish list to modify the mechanics and MM talents would be the following:

Increase the effect of Master Marksman. Perhaps to 15-20% additional RAP to set the stage.

Increase the default scaling on Arcane and Serpent to 20% and 40% respectively. That'll make those two shots more bang per cool down than Steady, thus diversifying the shot selections for all trees. Increasing the damage on Serpent could also mean interesting things with Survival talents. In any case, for sanity's sake there needs to be viable alternatives to Steady Shot. Changing Arcane Shot to use the same mechanics as Steady so it's effectively an armour piercing Steady Shot which can gain from caster debuffs but sacrifices mana efficiency would help when there are situations that mana is not a problem. Fall back is Steady Shot but if you have the mana to spare, subsitute one for an Arcane for more damage.

Piercing Shots apply to Auto, Kill Shot and Multi-Shot and in addition increases the damage cause by Arcane and Serpent by an additional 6-9-12%. Combined with the 'base' of an increase RAP, this would make the MM tree fully focus on using those two additional shots.

Wild Quiver proc chance buffed up and the damage penalty removed or conversely, keep the proc rate but increase the damage per shot. Net result would be an increase in 10-15% base auto shot damage. This is a direct counter to SS's effect on auto-shot damage, but takes it in a different approach. Instead of flat increase in attack speed, it's a bursty proc effect. While it's not 20%, the increase in RAP, RWS and Marked for Death will compensate.

Improved Steady Shot increases crit chance, or crit damage or reduces mana cost... this bit I'm weakest on and need to twiddle around with. Chance to proc the damage increase and the damage increase itself bumped up to 20% which means on a 6 sec cool down, those abilities will gain approx 10% more damage (3 steady shots in between cool downs = 0.8 to not proc. 0.8^3 = 0.512, 1-0.512 = 48.8% to proc at least once. Pushing the proc chance to 25% would increase the uptime to 57.81% for an average 11.56% increase in auto/kill shot damage)

Since we buffed up Serpent Sting's damage, have Chimera Shot deal 100% damage (use same damage mechanics as SS, which is our 'base' special attack) and have the Serpent Sting damage portion capable of critting. Now this shot is actually worth the GCD and tweak the mana cost so it's cost effective.
Probably OP in cases but oh well.

Then we have the problem of pruning the tree...


I wouldn't mind having a tree turned into a PvP tool set so long as all the tools are in the same tree. We have MM with the interrupting shots and dispel resistance, but we have the Survival Tree with the defensive cool downs, the enhanced traps, and durability increases. But yeah, the MM tree is a mess and the Survival tree is a mess because there isn't a clear consensus on what those trees are supposed to do exactly. It seems those two trees need to be merged then split off again to pile all the tricks in one tree and all the damage in the other.