Comments on: Faster Leveling and Pets

By: Mania’s Arcania » Drysc on Faster Leveling and Pets

Mania’s Arcania » Drysc on Faster Leveling and Pets — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:30:09 +0000

[...] Manager, took some time to answer some questions about the upcoming faster leveling. I’ve ranted before about what effect this might have on hunter pets, but Drysc had this to say: [Quoted post [...]

By: Boudica

Boudica — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:14:31 +0000

It always puzzled my why pets never gained xp from quest handin’s, surely my raptor should get the xp too, he took most of the ass kicking. The rested xp idea is an excellent one as it would make leveling pets so much easier when you have almost 3 bars of rested to grind/quest out.

As for the insta-level thing warlock style, I’m sorry but if I want my pet to level at the same time as me, I’ll re-roll, I prefer the challenge of getting my pet to keep up with me :))

By: Mania

Mania — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:25:48 +0000

shibumi: I always thought it would be fun if hunters could sell pets to other people: either to another hunter as a hunter pet, or to any class as a non-combat pet.

By: shibumi

shibumi — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:27:02 +0000

Heh, Ransen’s comment about paying to level made me think of a scenario where it would be a blend of SWG and WoW – be paid to level pets for lazy hunters. pay a LOT.

So, you want that ghost saber … gimme 5000g (so I can get epic flight form) and I just might do that for you :)

By: Rasen

Rasen — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:29:07 +0000

I’m against having a pet that insta-levels like a Warlock pet as this will make some of the rarer pets more common.

I would like to see pets get some quest exp though. I mean, if my kitty helps me complete the quest, surely she should get something out of it too?

I’d also like something implemented where you can pay the pet trainer to level your pet for you. Say for example 20g per level. This would stop a lot of people doing this with a Ghost Saber for instance as it’s a hell of a lot to spend 20-70, and I’d argue that anyone willing to drop that much gold on their ghost deserves it as much as someone who’s levelled it, but it would primarily serve for if your pet drops a level too far behind you.

By: wowHuntress

wowHuntress — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:11:49 +0000

The new mechanic of reducing the xp required to level should be applied to pets as well. It would be a huge oversight if Blizz leaves pets out of that equation. Giving stabled pets rested xp would be a huge help and makes perfect sense. I don’t understand why that has never been implemented as the mechanics exist and there isn’t any reason not to.

Thanks for bringing up this topic!

By: Mania

Mania — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:56:13 +0000

What broken bold tag? *grin* (I had to guess at where you wanted it, though, so I may have guessed wrong.)

By: Jayhawk

Jayhawk — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:20:17 +0000

Apologies for the broken Bold-tag *sad*

By: Jayhawk

Jayhawk — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:19:34 +0000

I disagree with Shellshock, in that I don’t think all pet skills should be learnable from a Trainer. It takes a only bit of a hike and a few minutes to get most of the skills you want: Tame, Train, Set Free (I much prefer that over Abandon *wink*). My hunters tend to stable their current pet at the nearest Stable. If it’s a dangerous area, they’ll pick up a trash-pet, but that’s seldom necessary. Then they look for the pet they need (with a little help from our good friend Gazmik). Concuss, Freeze, Tame. Train them the highest Growl, set them on their nearest relative (or other mob) and Bob’s your uncle.

It’s fun.
It’s even more fun getting all the available skills.

And, no, it really doesn’t take that much time out of leveling your proper pet.

By: Mania

Mania — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:10:32 +0000

There’s a lot of good comments in here. I can tell it’s a subject near to our hearts. :> I’m really hoping that they have the changes ready to go on the PTR soon after 2.2 launches so we can really dig in and see how it goes.