Comments on: WotLK Rumor: Bite = Claw

By: Epacsten

Epacsten — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:49:16 +0000

I’m going to have to quote Arcazua here:

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Increasing distinction will not change anything other than which pets are superior to others. It will just perpetuate certain families being a tier above others, and make normalization (which I think is inevitable) even more painful and full of QQ drama.
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We need for all pets to be more or less the same, with family-specific abilities that give them a bit of uniqueness. Blizzard is moving in the right direction.

By: Krymzin

Krymzin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:11:12 +0000

I’m all for increasing the usefullness of the lesser used pet breeds, but I really don’t think turning bite into another claw is the way to do it.

Yes, tuning bite so it’s like claw will help the lesser used pets, but it’s also going to screw with the pets that already get both. I can’t help but feel like it’s Blizz taking a lazy way out, and saying to hell with the consequences for pets that already get both.

Instead of changing bite, they should give those pet families without a viable DPS focus dump a new skill.

By: Akyo

Akyo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:52:52 +0000

not sure if i want bite to be instant and do lower dmg.
just reducing the CD with 3-5 sec would have been more than enough.

By: Moomaul

Moomaul — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:36:04 +0000

MOONMAUL?! YOU BADTARD! I am a tauren, not some lame purple tree hugger with giant ears and a cat fetish.

By: Bradagore

Bradagore — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:40:02 +0000

Regarding Moonmaul’s post and the “smack” business – this sounds extremely encouraging. It suggests that there’s a concerted effort to deal with the “bad choice” pets and give them something worth having. If the bite changes are a part of this balancing act then I’m all for it. I don’t want to see every pet identical (which would certainly be the easy way out, and which Blizzard could have done already and haven’t) but I think having pets that are never tamed because of pure natural selection would be worse. However this news suggests Blizzard may be going the way that most hunters would prefer.

By: bbr

bbr — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:12:45 +0000

More focus dumps is better, long as the pet AI is functional.

Bite isn’t a bad skill as it is now, but a good DPS pet “needs” gore or claw to be any use in raids.
This change to bite would make wolves, scorpids etc useful again.

By: Nyx

Nyx — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:30:01 +0000

@ Kithylin: Please, stop. Just… stop.

Focus dump skills are used in instance runs, raiding, and PvP – where the hunter’s pet shouldn’t be Growling and thus needs to dump focus – hence the name.

While soloing, one can *turn off* focus dump skills, making a pet trained with Claw just as viable for solo play. [I leave it on, but then, my crit chance is above 30%.]

What else would you be training your cat with [if that's what you have], aside from Bite/Claw/Dash/Growl? The only active skill left is Prowl, something that sees more utility for PvP pets than PvE.

By: Mania

Mania — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:06:43 +0000

Adam: Being a level 70 hunter who is having trouble with aggro is not unusual these days. You might want to take a look at the State of Pet Aggro post that I wrote up. I suspect your problems have more to do with the pet skill priority problem than with Bite and Claw. But it's a place to start, anyway.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:23:02 +0000

Hi guys. Fantastic thread. So chuffed to have found this.. I’m just wondering, with a slightly tenuous link to the bite vs claw thread – I’m totally ill-informed at the whole WOW thing, despite being a lvl 70 hunter. I’m tearing my hair out trying to understand how bite, claw, focus, growl etc actually works. What it actually does? I have a lynx as a pet (incidentally names cuckinfat, you work it out) And I’m struggling to stop him losing aggro and pinning it all on me. Even if i go with aspect of the Viper, and do nothing but autoshoot I’m still attracting more aggro over time. My pet is lvl 5, so he has one more to go. He’s got growl, claw and bite on auto, cobra reflexes, and the usual – armour, health etc…

I for that matter have had to downscale all my armour to focus on sta and int rather than out and out agi, to try and cater for the fact that I’m winning on th e aggro stakes. What is it that i’m doing so wrong?

I’ve heard mixed reports about bite vs claw, not having both on, only using growl… I’m stuck to be honest, and this looks like a great forum with REAL views, not the “You such noob. give me 1g or die” that i’m used to on the Blizzard forums.

Any help would be HUGELY appreciated.

Thanks.

Ad.

By: Stephf

Stephf — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:40:09 +0000

They should just keep Bite the way it is if Blizzard is going to change it. I have enough trouble with my Carrion Bird with its Claw already, and I dont need Bite to become worst like it too..