It’s possible that he slipped into yellow just when you took the shot and you missed it. It does happen :D So no worries. Take care.

From what you said, I’ll have to assume that they were on the same hunter. Were both of them ‘well fed’? If that little button next to the pet’s bars is green and they are ‘well fed’, then they get a 25% damage buff. Basically- Red = 75% normal damage, yellow = 100% normal damage, green = 125% normal damage.

I know it’s a simple, stupid thing to ask, but my aunt use to be in tech service and she once fielded a call from someone who’s computer wouldn’t turn on. Her first question was- is it plugged in? It turns out, the computer wasn’t plugged in.

I don’t know if the Raptor that I’d been using all the way from lv25 through 66 actually had ‘caster stats’ or if BC raptors truly are buffed by about 25%, but if possible, I’d like to know if anyone has done research to find out if that will have the same attributes at level 70. Do you have any idea?

Each of those I mentioned are rares that can learn those skills. My idea is that a Rare would have all the active trainable skills that they can learn for their level and family. This way, if you want to get all those skills, you don’t have to grab three pets and learn them anew, but just grab one rare pet and learn them from that one pet (or keep it if you want).

By the way, ignore the comment I had last time — I missread Seidouyumi’s post and thought he meant they would be more POWERFULL, not have more skills when tamed.

True, but I have dug a little deeper into this.
Normal pets are Warriors, they share their buffs with them as we have learned to hate. But the interesting thing is that Warriors (and Rogues) don’t gain ANY spellcrit whatsoever from Int. Hence our pets don’t either.
However, caster pets are Paladins, and as such they scale on Int like they do. 80 Int = 1% spellcrit (at base it is quite complicated and I suggest you look up wowwiki for it) like most casters.

Hence you can buff a caster pet’s Int to gain even more spellcrit, while you can’t with a normal pet.

The loss of Agi might also impact caster pets since like Paladins they gain more crit over normal pets. 25 agi = 1% crit for Pallies and 33 for Warriors. And in the end we can’t discount the effects from BoK overall.

I’ve wonder it too, that’s why I came up with this. And thank you for the compliment. :) I did have an idea about rare pets that may seem a bit odd. It isn’t that the rare pets would necessarily look better (though some do) or have better stats, but, rather, a rare/elite pet would have all the active skills available to that family on it.

So, say, Ressan the Needler would have Bite Rank 2, but Vultros, the rare Carrion Bird, would have Bite 4, Claw 4, and Screech 1. And so on. This means that a rare pet would be wanted for something more than look, but not make them more powerful than the others.

Batgirl-

I long ago learned that the simplest thing to do is not froth at the mouth and scream at Blizzard about a problem. Those in power, no matter where you are, will find a way to hit you over the head.

So, I figured this was accidental. It looks like it’s the XP values from back before 2.3, and it’s a minor inconvience over all to have to wait for the loyalty to ding upward.