It all happened at about the same time...
The upgrade to skill by the Dev Team and my strategy on playing a Witch Hunter.
First let me say that I never have read any fan site boards on WH - they totally ruined most of my experience in other games and are another whole editroial topic for me sometime in the future. This is the only site regarding War that I visit since you are all my War family and this is where we communicate besides in game chat and Vent.
The only thing I really changed in play style was deciding to not save my accusations - I was letting them build up to 4 or 5 before firing them off. Then after careful reading of the desciption I find my Blessed bullets rely totally on firing off my special shots. This did hit me like a a cast iron skillet up the side of my head by my mammy - BANG. (pun intended - ya know - a gun goes Bang! - ok - moving on)
I decided to try out firing off my special shots when ever I had an accustion up - which is easily every other move but at no more than 3 accusations which comes up a heck of a lot. All of a sudden mobs start dropping like flies during a hail storm. I'm able to move from one to the other even several levels higher than me almost non stop and if I have accustions built up I don't stop to loot until the smell of gun powder is out of the air.
So now I decide to take this new found discovery into orvr but this occurs at the same time they increase the WH damage - I now don't feel gimped in orvr as I did before and with a trait from the one line with a 50% chance of gaining 2 accusations after using them - I find my pistol shoots a lot more and my damage has really increased. After attacking sorcs and magus I now know why a WE 5 lvls lower than me can gut my BW without reproach.
Basically I'm just saying that I am happy now with the WH - a character I once played just because she looked good - now seems functional.