Don’t get migraines.

Blizzard posted a list of known issues in Patch 2.1.0 this morning. Presumably this isn’t all the issues, but merely the ones they’ve been able to verify so far. I’ve reproduced only the hunter-related issues below.

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I just noticed that my lovely bullet-pointed patch notes are displaying without bullets. Reading the support pages here are WordPress, this looks like an expected (although not by me!) side effect of my theme. I’m trying to figure out how to fix it. In the meantime, you have my apologies for the hard-to-read lists.

[Edit 6/28: This is no longer an issue, so if you're reading this in the future and you can't figure out what I am talking about, don't be too concerned.]

This is just a random list of patch notes I found vaguely interesting, with commentary. Most of them are not hunter- or pet-related in any way, so you needn’t feel obligated to read them. :>

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After I go off on one of my rants about the flaws in the current pet system in WoW, people sometimes ask me “Well, how would you handle it?” They rarely ask twice — I have charts, and I am willing to use them. But I thought it might be fun to share some of that armchair design here. First up: the problem of pursuit speed enhancers. (Pursuit speed is the speed at which pets run to their target. You can read more about it on the Petopia Pursuit Speed page.)

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