The WotLK beta finished downloading and installing earlier tonight, so of course I logged right in and … started taming existing pets. I know, I know … but I had to know which families get which talent trees!
As far as I can tell, the system looks like so:
| Talent Tree | Pet Families |
|---|---|
| Cunning |
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| Ferocity |
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| Tenacity |
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But it really seems like there should be 8 families in each tree so perhaps I’ve got one wrong. I’ll have to recheck them tomorrow. But for now I’m going to bed.
Oh, and this is posted up on Petopia as well, under WotLK Pet Talents.
@bobo: I’m afraid someone in the hunter forums must be posting false information. The tooltip on Gore in-game is as Mania has it listed (no charge element) – the only Charge-like effect is the triple damage when Gore is used while under the effects of Dash.
I just really got something. Each tree has 3 final abilities, generally considered to be really powerful/useful. Non-beast masters will only be able to aquire one of these final abilities, while beast masters will be able to aquire two. ……that final talent in beast master suddenly just got a whole lot sexier.
Correction for bad math. If a non-BM doesn’t go nuts on the lower tiers they can aquire two final tier, but beast masters will be afford a good deal more leeway with those five points. Fun times, that.
I’m pretty sure that with 21 points a BM hunter can manage to pick up all 3 tier 5 talents on their pet.
Oh yes, I fiddled with the numbers earlier, but by going with just two you can get all the earlier mitigation, damage, speed increases, and flavor categories for each family tree. It, in essence, should allow your pet to be a jack of all trades, master of one. This, however, is just theory on my part. Right now you and Mania know more then me, Nimizar, I am just dreaming a bit and talking out loud. 21 points should allow you to take everything first tier, most of second, and then pick and choose for your final abilities. On the flip side, if your not beast master or just want a specific role, you can spec your pet for just a single role to fill, and have it be a bit more effective at said role overall. \
Ahhh, theorycrafting. So much fun.
My flamingo of doom is dps! Woot!
wait wait wait wait wait… moths are now tameable?! nice. always wanted to tame one of those guys
ravagers are a utility pet instead of dps?!
NO!
Yay Wolfs are dps. Now that ghost wolf will be very useful and cool. Awesome!
First thing I noticed was that each teit had 35 points to spend in, yet we only get 16 talent points, gonna have to pick and choose, which will be fun figuring out how to put those points in. (at least for me)
Yay finally my beautiful sporebat Blurp will get his own special attack. I’m as happy as a pig in sh……., well really really happy anyway.
P.S. sooo jealous you got a beta key but also glad you did. Keep hte pet info coming, can’t wait to find out more :D
All three of my hunters now have the same problem: for each of them, both pets are in the same category. Two of them ended up with a carrion bird & a cat (both now classified as dps pets), and my third hunter has a boar and a turtle (both now classified as tanking pets). So I guess there are going to be some hard decisions which pet to keep, and which to abandon, as keeping two pets in the same category probably doesn’t make sense… :(
Btw – am I seeing correctly that ‘Screech’ no longer exists? Or any other pet AoE spell, for that matter?
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I have the same problem Yoco, only slightly worse. As in my pets at current are a wolf, a cat, and a carrion bird. And no, screech is not going away, is has been renamed demoralizing screech, and is now available only to the carrion bird family, the AoE debuff still applies.
@Yoco: you aren’t seeing correctly. There are plenty of pet AoE skills left and some new ones – Screech stays (as Demoralizing Screech), Bears get Swipe, Gorillas keep Thunderstomp, Dragonhawks keep Firebreath, Crocolisks get damage reflection, Spore Bats get Spore Cloud, Tallstriders get Dust Cloud.
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Glee! I get to keep all my pets when the expansion comes! Oh wait… I have a wolf, cat and owl… 1 cunning and 2 feros. I will need a tank pet. I’ve had the wolf forever and a day. And when I tamed my lynxie, it felt like I got my “purr-fect” pet… til growl was altered some time ago. I’m very attached the wolf and cat, and I don’t want to drop the owl. I just finished leveling her! ;_;
“Am I the only one who thinks its hilarious that tallstriders and moths are DPS pets? It also seems a bit odd that spiders got a talent named after them in the ferocity tree…. and are in the cunning tree.”
I agree that is strange why not kick Moth and put Ravager in there!?
Any clarification on croc’s skill being a counterattack when the pet is damaged, or the hunter? The tooltip says “you.” /shrug
Rey: Good question! So far as I know the you refers to the croc here, like it does for Growl and Cower. I’ll double-check that next time I have a chance.