One idea that I’ve had kicking around in the back of my head is the idea of buying levels. It would, say, cost a lot of money to get a pet from level one to level 70, but it would really cut down on the agony of leveling up a given pet skin.

Or, Blizzard could have pets in the stable level, just at a very slow rate. So you could level one pet, and still have a few more gaining exp.

This would help with pets being distributed how they are… hehe. That or have buyable pets, costing a fortune, for the lazy hunters… though choosing which ones would be available to buy would be hard, hmm… plus that’s a lot of coding in one spot, hehe… ah well. Just ideas.

The reasons I though for having Nether Ray’s use Lightning Breath is because they’re relatives, the Tripod and the Sporebat, both have a lightning based attack, but also, as Casters, they get an actual chance to crit when hitting a mob with this skill.

The Tallstrider was suppose to have a healing aura originally, but it was pulled before the Hunter class was even implimented. Unfortunately, while it would be a great idea, it can never be.

Crocolisks could have a skill called deathroll, where the crocolisk and the victim are rooted, unable to act for 5 seconds. The cooldown could be 5 minutes, but it’d be an awesome stun. No damage done also, plus the pet can’t attack during that time. 5 minute cooldown would make it hard to take any drastic advantage of this in pvp (often, hehe =P ).

Spiders need a web, plain and simple. There’re already pets with poison skills, and a web sounds more fun. It would be a melee range attack, rooting the enemy for a few seconds, with a 2 minute cooldown.

Nether Rays don’t need a lightning breath, sheesh, wind serpents have that silly… they need a mana drain ability! Little cooldown, but they could drain a chunk of the enemy’s mana, which would be a channeled ability.

Hyenas need a heckling or giggle ability of sorts, perhaps one that would reduce enemy attack power or something. I was thinking of it as a fear, maybe 2 seconds of it, all in melee range, but that could be overpowered if not handled well…

Well, there’s my opinion. The other skills sound good, hehe.

Crabs- Thorns, a Passive damage spell that consumes one charge each hit. This is a combination of the Fake Pet Skill and the Shaman spell Lightning Shield.

Crocolisks- Rend, a Damage over Time ability similar to the Warrior skill.

Hyena- same as Crocolisk, both animals tend to do similar behaviors in the wild.

Nether Rays- Lightning Breath. Nether Rays, Sporebats and Tripods all have a lightning teather type ability. I figured that this would be a good solution.

Spiders- Poison Spit similar to Serpent’s. Certain spider mobs do this.

Sporebats- Sporecloud, (instant, 30 sec CD, Deals X to Y damage and then Z damamge every 2 seconds over 10 seconds to all mobs in melee range, This ability causes a moderate amount of additional threat.), Lightning Breath. Sporebats do something similar ‘in the wild’.

Tallstrider- Screech, giving them the only land based application to that. This idea actually goes all the way back to where they got these mobs from. It is said that some actual flightless birds of old actually would use a scream/screech to intimidate enemies.

Turtles- Varsar recomended that this have a damage reflection component to it similar to the Improved PW Shield ability of a Discipline Priest.

Gorillas- Charge. Retool of Thunderstomp- Instant, CD 30 seconds, does X to Y damage to all mobs in melee range. Varsar recomended keeping it to a 30 second cool down. I recomended it be in melee range.

Wolf- Furious Howl’s focus cost reduced. This would allow for FH to be cast more often, boosting a Wolf’s overall DPS.

The sporecloud was completely Varsar’s idea. I just added it in to make this one post, and because I liked it.

Such as net for spiders. You see tamable and non-tamable pets in the wild that have some interesting skills that are not available at all.

Additionally, you could add a page for frequent requested pet skills. For example, I would want to see resilience as trainable for pets.

Like the new look, takes a bit of getting used to is all.

I noticed that some of those pet skills were retooled and made into official skills. Some of them did seem rather over powered though.