Comments on: PTR 2.4.2: Not Over After All

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:02:21 +0000

@hyena84: pets with a loyalty level above 1 won’t run away if you don’t feed them, they’ll just lose a loyalty level. You need to leave them unhappy for a spectacularly long time before they’ll actually run off.

It’s the DPS loss which is annoying, not the chances of them running away.

@Complicated: my pet is around 30% of my DPS, going from happy to content is a 20% DPS loss for my pet, so around a 6% overall DPS loss for me. Losing more than 50 DPS from 1 player in a predominantly T4-and-below geared raid group can hurt quite a bit.

By: hyena84

hyena84 — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:50:47 +0000

we want to be able to feed pets in combat so they WONT LEAVE US.even feeding befor a big boss fight doesnt always help if stuff goes buggy.and sometimes theres someone who wants you to leave the area so they keep drag mobs with aoes to you…

By: Matt1988

Matt1988 — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:52:58 +0000

Awww well, hopefully that is why they extended the ptr, so that they can help out the hunter community lol

By: Mania

Mania — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:27:03 +0000

Matt1988: You mean this post? Yes, I saw that. Unfortunately, as of this afternoon, no such change had been made on the Public Test Realm. As I type this, Growl on the PTR is still scaling exactly as it does on the live realms.

By: Matt1988

Matt1988 — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:13:59 +0000

Mania did u see the blue post saying growl will start to scale with hunter AP starting at 1200, based on your testing will this mean that my turtle will be a viable pet now, or will it still not be able to hold agro at lvl 70? just curious cause i know you have done a lot of work on the subject.

By: Xota

Xota — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:45:30 +0000

You feed your pet when people stop for manadrinks. If you have to rez your pet mid-fight, then you might want to feed it. But the solution is to keep your pet alive, or deal with it being yellow (or red) face.

By: Ghanur

Ghanur — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:28:37 +0000

@Complicated:
The problem arises, when you are near an other fight (aggro range), you are put the aggro list of that other mob – so, you’ll have to wait ’til this fight is over too, just to feed your pet. It’s normal during raids – you won’t get out of aggro at all (since they nerfed FD into oblivion!).

This “change of mind” sounds more like someone higher up the food-chain “suggested” it – there was probably enough upstir to make it throught to book keeping/management *eg*.

By: Complicated

Complicated — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:57:32 +0000

I keep seeing this feed pet issue raised and I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would ever find it necessary to feed your pet in combat. WTF is the point? If you are seriously min/maxxing that close to the line that the minor dps loss your pet does half way through a 3 minute boss fight, there’s more than a pet issue. I’ll admit I’m not BM but what’s so hard about feeding your pet before a fight?

By: Kerub

Kerub — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:47:49 +0000

better change thier mind now then wait for it to go live then ever one would say
” If its buggy why didn’t they test it longer, You’d think a company as experienced and big as Blizzard, would test things on the test server and that they’d have a system on how to test things so that anything that could go wrong would come up before it went live”

By: Ryno

Ryno — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:02:59 +0000

You’d think a company as experienced and big as Blizzard wouldn’t need to change their mind about things, and that they’d have a system on how to test things so that anything that could go wrong would come up… hehe.