Comments on: Petopia: WotLK Pet FAQ + New Beta Pets

By: Jester

Jester — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:02:39 +0000

I still hope and pray for a “Play Dead” type skill to go along with Feign Death. Would be really nice.

By: Palladiamors

Palladiamors — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:27:03 +0000

I can agree with that, Noba, it would just require for there to be an additional stable slot just for exotics, and that we only be able to tame one exotic pet. Thats not nessecarily a bad thing, and honestly its a good precaution for those automatic respecs we get when a mass talent review or an expansion comes out. Not that it’d be a massive blow unless I’d tamed an exotic from an instance or something.

By: Noba

Noba — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:38:04 +0000

Pal- What I meant by the exotic pet stable slot, is that when you spec out of the 51 point BM your pet is forced away to that slot. It can’t be taken out of that stable while you don’t have the talent. So if you’re now MM or SV, your pet just sits and collects dust. The reason I dont think it should go away completely is.. what if you want to stay BM, but just switch the location of a few points? And in three minutes, you will once again have the 51-point BM talent again. Nobody wants to go re-tame and level up 5 levels just cause of that.
Maybe the pet would only stay in reserve in the stable for X length of time, that way if you took a whole new tree, your pet wouldnt wait forever for you.

By: Ivanator

Ivanator — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:39:38 +0000

OK COMON where the heck is the freackin new warpstalker, sporebats,crab,crok,and tallstrider skins

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:12:21 +0000

The big thing about getting the pet to 5 levels below us is that it means the pet can now easily take on mobs that will actually give it XP. So you tame your new pet and go farm eternals (the Wrath version of primals) or go grind out more of one of the new reputations, or go do some of the slightly lower level instances, and the pet will be able to handle it.

Regarding the exotic pets, I really think they need to be kept, but not usable when a BM hunter goes SV or MM for a while. Forcibly abandoning all of your exotic pets just because you respecced would be a terrible additional respec cost to add for BM hunters.

As an alternative pet talent, I did see an interesting idea which was similar to a DK’s Dancing Runeblade – it called a shadow version of your pet which performed all of the same actions as your actual pet for a short period.

By: Keilden

Keilden — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:00:06 +0000

Hmmm I wonder what name I should pick for my Moth. I am going to pick one of those red ones. Any suggestions?

By: Palladiamors

Palladiamors — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:25:35 +0000

First off, Ghostclaw has confirmed that the tooltips are incorrect and the talents in beta are working as intended. Next up, apologies for disagreeing with you Noba, but I don’t think you should have to spec down 51 points just to get a new stable slot. And as for exotic pets going away if you respec, well, I’m all for it. What good is having an exotic pet if all you have to do is respec to beast master once, go get your ‘unique’ pet, then go back to being MM or survival? From all due appearances the talent is meant to give beast masters a unique line of pets, not all three trees. Just my two cents.

Finally, as for stable slots, it may not have been the way we asked for it, but we WERE just given an additional stable slot. As in I have gone through all of TBC with two keeper pets, and one ‘skill slot’ pet, that’s never been permanent because I just knew I’d have to release them once a new expansion came out. Pretty sure I am not the only one who goes by this philosophy. Now when I release my third pet, it won’t because I have to, just to keep up. It’ll be because I saw something else that I really wanted to tame. Not saying I wouldn’t like a third or even fourth stable slot, just saying that we now have one active pet, and two actual OPEN stable slots, and pets that auto level up to five levels below us. And five levels is nothing to worry about for leveling.

By: Noba

Noba — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:48:25 +0000

the beast mastery thing sounds like a lot of issues to work out. i’d think one way to handle it is, the talent also provides one additional stable slot- a slot that can only house ‘exotic’ pets. that way, if a hunter respecs, the exotic pet is sent to the stable,and simply can not be pulled out to play until the hunter has that talent again. it wouldn’t be fun to have to re-tame every time you want to move some points around… Or if they were going to just scrap the idea, i’d like to see something new, like maybe a long cooldown ability that brings out a second pet of yours to fight alongside your active pet for a short time.

By: Wolfington

Wolfington — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:32:28 +0000

I always liked the hunched position of the jewel cats, looks kind of like a charging bull. I also hope they stay tamable, although I’m sure lots of people will have them. (I like pets that few people have!)

By: Gurluas

Gurluas — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:01:02 +0000

Id also like to see the “hunched” posture…Seems like a nice pet, it doestn go “untameable” like other cool pets.