This gun actually can serve different purposes. It is not strictly "a tank weapon" or "a hunter weapon".
The stats make it give very nice tanking bonuses, which is great! Certainly for raids a tank that can use/need this certainly should get priority.
However, as someone previously mentioned, it does indeed have pvp use for hunters. For those that have ever been struck in some way while casting steady shot, I'm sure you recognize the problems with such an action in pvp, unless you stack ridiculous haste, or you get an opportunity where you can sit free to finish casting the shot. Of course, any hunter interested in pvp should get the survival skill that boosts your range by 6 meters, which can very much help in casting a steady uninterrupted.
The point is that if a tank truly needs this, then they should get priority. Even if the hunter uses a poor/moderate blue weapon (which they probably won't if they're in the raid group that can take out the boss that drops this!), the shot rotations will work out for better dps anyway. This can certainly be useful as a pvp hunter weapon, but it is absolutely NOT necessary to pvp well as a hunter, and is definitely a tanking weapon first and foremost.
I'm a level 70 hunter, and I would let any tank desiring this roll ahead of me.
The stats make it give very nice tanking bonuses, which is great! Certainly for raids a tank that can use/need this certainly should get priority.
However, as someone previously mentioned, it does indeed have pvp use for hunters. For those that have ever been struck in some way while casting steady shot, I'm sure you recognize the problems with such an action in pvp, unless you stack ridiculous haste, or you get an opportunity where you can sit free to finish casting the shot. Of course, any hunter interested in pvp should get the survival skill that boosts your range by 6 meters, which can very much help in casting a steady uninterrupted.
The point is that if a tank truly needs this, then they should get priority. Even if the hunter uses a poor/moderate blue weapon (which they probably won't if they're in the raid group that can take out the boss that drops this!), the shot rotations will work out for better dps anyway. This can certainly be useful as a pvp hunter weapon, but it is absolutely NOT necessary to pvp well as a hunter, and is definitely a tanking weapon first and foremost.
I'm a level 70 hunter, and I would let any tank desiring this roll ahead of me.