Comments on: Ghost Wolf Removal Roundup

By: Wetmango

Wetmango — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:23:24 +0000

The said they had “no plans” to remove. Plans change people. I am a hunter and I would have liked to tame this pet too but get over it. If you spent gold on mats just resell them. Not a big deal…. IMHO

By: Menoseloso

Menoseloso — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:18:25 +0000

I think Blizzard taking away the Ghost Wolf is a good thing, but yes, I am really depressed that I wasn’t able to tame one myself. Think of it this way though, when I first saw a netherdrake thats all I wanted for the longest time. I thought they were the coolest mounts in the game. Now I have one…and so does everyone else on our server. Takes a little of the fun away. Grats to those who were able to grab a Ghose Wolf in time, and make sure to flaunt that puppy around!!!

By: Ahoshoyo

Ahoshoyo — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 06:15:02 +0000

I don’t understand the rationale behind making certain members of tameable species “untameable,” since they’re basically just palette-swaps of a base hunter pet type. And since the ability to (1) name your pet, and (2) decide (by way of choosing which pet you tame) which look you prefer are two of the advantages that Hunters have over the Warlock’s pets, the chipping-away at that advantage does absolutely nothing but rob Hunter players of whatever fun they derive from the game.

… Then again, “untameable” pets are sort of a sore subject for me. One of my first forrays as a Hunter involved levelling an Orc Hunter for the express purpose of taming a Zebra. … lol I cried for weeks after that.

By: Shameel

Shameel — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:57:21 +0000

This really bites. I play a hunter and I’m sick of the way Blizzard treats pets. The most fun about being a hunter was the pets. Working hard to get a pet with unique attributes was fun. But then they normalized all pet attack speeds, and now they take away the only pet in game that could be considered unique. It just makes playing a hunter less fun, somehow, when theres a lack of any really unique pets in the game.

By: Drakkena

Drakkena — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:01:07 +0000

I had started up saving in hopes of the possibility of taming one. However when I came over here to find that they have been nerfed and taken I was rather disappointed. In a sense with everyone else.

They LIED to us in the matter that it would stay into the game and therefore had us thinking Oh hey! We get something worth our efforts to tame! But, just like everything else Blizzard has to ‘take it’ and throw it into the trash pile because it doesn’t fit so well with their plans.

How many times have we seen a pet disappear or get nerfed? Araga was one, with her LOVELY glitched tail stripes that have now been removed. We also have Hawkbane who has been or supposedly has been removed from the game. And I don’t know how many others have been taken from us.

Araga isn’t as big as this or Hawkbane for that matter. But still, we get something COOL and blizzard goes HOMG no you can’t have it. And really, if they plan on giving it to a shammy as a summon… they better be prepared for the shit fit of a lifetime from everyone. We have ghost sabers, but they just don’t compare to a spectral wolf (I call it Spectral because it looks nothing like a ghost lol)

But still, if they want to nerf the Ghost wolf how about upping up some of the other pets we have? Like maybe giving a Spider a new more, or maybe a CRAB for petes sake. Heck add in something worthy to tame since they are basically one siding all the pets like the one statement said. If we want a tank? Bear or Boar possibly a Scorpid but when have you seen a Scorpid tanking over a boar? You want DPS, Cats are your thing mostly, then a Raptor or Ravager (Majority is a cat) and then for the other side, annoyances and things Owls are the top, alongside with Bats and possibly the Carrion Birds.

You rarely see things like the spiders, crabs, crocs, etc. because they don’t have moves. Bah, give a croc Death Roll or something! Then you’ll see more tamed D<

By: Cavernaugh Clan Chief

Cavernaugh Clan Chief — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:03:12 +0000

OK…. I am about to get jumped on. I can feel it! The novelty of the Ghost Wolf is awesome. It looks great! For those of you who have them, “congratulations!!” Let’s be honest. Society shunning, woods stomping, pet loving hunters, despised by most other Classes are not about to suddenly get all social as was required for the Ghost Wolf tame. Without upper level jewel enhances the tame was a team effort that no hunter, the ultimate soloing toon, could do on their own.

Yes, the Ghost Wolf was nerfed. Yes, Bliz was slightly two-faced in this issue. Yes, I feel for those RPers who adjusted character bios to accommodate the anticipated taming. However, this really wasn’t a Hunter pet. IMO. I can only hope that Bliz finally gives us a new upper level Ape with a few more levels of Thunderstomp, I’d happily trade that for a see-through wolf.

By: Gimme Back My Ghost Wolf!

Gimme Back My Ghost Wolf! — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:05:08 +0000

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By: Si

Si — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:01:17 +0000

The response on the EU forums is typical of the response from EU GM’s and support staff, i.e no where near as good or human as you guys in US get :(

By: Piia

Piia — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:03:20 +0000

I personally was happy to hear they fixed it since the players who got theirs can keep it. Everyone who wanted one should have jumped on the opportunity and got one immediately like I did. Thus for all those that didn’t bother made the pet more rarer for the ones that wanted it.

By: Mahumia

Mahumia — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:55:25 +0000

Sadly enough blizz seems to like to nerf all they can and taking away a lot of fun…
I do have a hunter too, but I couldn’t be bothered to grab this baby. Didn’t fix with my character imo XD.
Sadly enough a lot of ways to be ‘unique’ are taken away. Especially at the roleplay servers that’s quite a shame I think.
Same for casual gaming… that becomes quite useless too. I like to run an instance every now and then, but not like 4+ days a week. Seeing that you need to run loads and loads of instances for getting a change to gear up (<5% droprates ftw and pvp gear usually sucks in instances for most classes)… never mind… The game is becoming too much the world of people without lives who spend whole days in a virtual world so they can be very proud with their ‘omg epix, I’m soo 1337, I’ve got full tier x. What do you mean, what do you do besides WoW? There is real life, only afk’ Sorry, I pass for that.

I think it would be a good idea if blizz would give more options to play the game instead of removing them… give professions more options to make cool stuff without the need to run heroics/raids (give (rare) droprates in farming stuff instead or something), make more unique and/or rare pets/mounts/companions for people to fashion up, etc. Humans are the only race with a larger choice in different level 40 mounts for example (4 colors instead of 3) what are the other races lacking to not deserve the same choice? Or is it a lack of originality on blizz side?