as for the loyalty issue I also thought things were wacky. Took my lvl 63 (just leveled) orc hunter to train a rip-blade ravager. easy tame, and I was at 3% at the time I tamed him. when I hit 10% I still hadn’t gained a loyalty level and was growing concerned. I think it was about 11 or 15% that I started getting levels gained. Now I’m lvl 4 loyalty and it seemed to follow the 5% rule after the first long lag. I will redo another critter before I’m lvl 64 to make sure that I’m right. I’ll pay more attention this time.

I also said somewhere that I have five (soon to be six) hunters. I love playing them even though they aren’t as useful as, say, a mage or a shaman. I love my mage and shaman too. So, no worries :)

Not that I’m bitter about issues that have been around since beta like pet slots, or neglected pet families, or taming mechanics, or lack of instruction for how to training pets, or …

I am SO with you on this – heh, but then we all are! And frankly while I can see that it would be difficult I don’t think it should be impossible to give us just one more. It’s one of the things I look forward to finding out about most with WOTLK.

Seidouyumi : “I do wish that there were fewer hunters though.”

Thing is, hunters are such a great alt character to have for those of us with main characters who are needed for guild/grouping hooha. Secretly I love my hunter more than any of my “useful” characters to group with – and I can solo to my heart’s content without bothering anyone. But I know what you mean. Of course since I solo with my hunter they can nerf the heck out of the class and I’ll still be playing with it to see how I have to adapt my solo play to the changes, so it’ll still interest me just as much. But I also luck out in that since no one will be relying on me to master my skills for grouping, there’s no pressure on me, I have it easy.

Actually because there are so many hunters and because so many people roll them to play casually or as first characters there’s possibly a better case that Blizz will give the class MORE attention, knowing what a large population plays them. That’s what a lot of non-hunterfolk seem to moan about on the forums anyhow.

Those were great forum links, Znodis. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed though – because those are older posts, and we know they’ve already made changes that weren’t originally planned back then. So, there’s hope? Maybe?

I will repeat about the XP thing, looking at it, it looks like it would be the next level up from the run to 70 from 69.

Well, as for my pets, there is a reason I have five hunters- one for every single pet family I love. I had to run out to Bloodmyst Isle as a Horde just to get my Ravager. That was fun lol.

Thats about right, Sei. The two year marker was when the balance was working fairly well. But in trying to make warriors more viable, they went a bit far. *shrugs* Que sera, sera. I am going to agree with Sei on this one. Its just going to make us all angry the more we think about it.

Keep in mind this was a year and a half ago and the next patch was BC.