I woke up this morning just a few minutes ago (and yes, it is morning for me!) to 18 new e-mails in my inbox, most of them about this post from Ghostcrawler on the WotLK Beta Hunter forum:
There are 2 additional slots in the stable.
Integrating hunter / warlock pet management into the new mount and companion UI has certainly come up already. Let’s give the new UI a whirl and see if it works and then we can consider if it makes sense to integrate the stable or anything else into it.
When the new beta build went up Monday night, I was able to check out the pet talent changes pretty quickly. But I slacked on re-checking all the family skills. (There’s so many of them now!)
Luckily, you guys don’t slack as much as I do. :> In particular, Ilyara of the guild Ostarim Tel Niasa from Earthen Ring EU and Zepnic the Hunter both sent me a treasure trove of changes with the beta pet skills. And Stranger let us know about changes in a comment here as well.
Here’s a quick run down of what has changed with beta pet skills. (Oh, and I also updated Petopia with this information this morning.)
Final Name: Kisa (And see the end of the post for a new picture of Evandelle and Kisa.)
Today we have a real rarity to name: the beautiful and elusive lioness Araga! Evandelle, a young Draenei hunter from the Blackwater Raiders realm, writes:
I have just tamed this beautiful lioness, and I plan on never getting rid of her, EVER, so thus, I need the perfect name!
Ghostcrawler is the Blizzard poster who shows up most often on the WotLK Beta Hunter forum, especially in regards to hunter pets. It sounds like she has a lot of responsibility for designing the pet system. (I wonder if she’d be willing to trade jobs with me … although honestly she seems to be doing a pretty good job herself.)
Anyway, she posted several times this morning with some good information-rich comments, so she gets a post all her own to round them up.
I’ve updated Petopia with the pet talent changes we saw in last night’s 8681 beta build. I’ve also tried to clean up the pet talent section and make it a bit easier to read. The graphical charts will be coming back as soon as I get them updated. But let me know what you think of the organization for the moment.
I also cleaned up the family skill section a few days ago, and this morning I added the devilsaur family skill. (For now, I am just treating devilsaurs as a new family.) Devilsaurs are also on the new pet page as well. I still have more pets to add and/or modify based on info sitting in my mailbox right now. That should keep me busy until lunch. *grin*