Okay, I spoke too soon when I said there were no obvious changes in the new beta build, build 8714. Check out this sexy screenshot:
That’s Kaet’s stable … with three pets in the stable, plus one empty stable slot, and one empty slot out with her.
For a total of five pet slots.
You must purchase the new slots from the Stable Master just as you did the first two stable slots you bought. I don’t know if the price on the first two has changed, but the new ones are a fairly reasonable 50 gold and 150 gold.
ZOMG!!!!1111 Now I don’t have to worry about which pet I’m going to abandon first CAUSE I WONT BE ABANDONING!!111! :O:O:O:O My ghost wolf is safe now as well… and free to continue to wreak havoc in the battlegrounds.
By the way… If I understand correctly, wolves are going to be useful in the expansion again, right? Because of the new talent trees?
Well so far i have been quiet as i waited to see what may come for hunters , and i am now willing to say that so far i cannot complain about any of the changes they are trying , the only complaint is that it is making me think of trying a new hunter when the expansion comes just for what will be the ease of changing pets and of course no more trash pets so i can learn a new skill, and of course more pets to choose from.
i really hope this makes it into the live release but the price is crazy…. the slots should only go..5 10 15 etc…not jump by x100
This is really good news. I can have 3 functionally pets, and 2 ‘for fun’ pets then. Like Mazzranache. Even though tallstriders get a helluva big boost in Wotlk.
I still have to say goodbye to my dear boar Piggy though :(
First they nerfed charge, now they’re taking it away! (I know it’s a talent now, but boars are in a different talent tree.)
Yaddawoo!
Yes, Invisicat, wolves are about to become full on useful, DPS pets with a family trait that actually helps with that. I love my Lu, but I am definitely glad she is about to be able to tear things up. Now I just have to decide what other three pets to tame….. if I could be absolutely positive that caster stats were going away, I’d go ahead and get a nether ray.
I have over 2k for dailies. I saved up for epic flight training. :D
Now I can go to bed happy knowing that we can get more pets! 8D
:oD I just preordered wotlk, I will be a happy camper!
OMG, FLAIL! SQUEE! REJOICE!!
Yay more stable slots! Well, if Blizz keeps em, there will be many happy hunters out there. I find the stable slot prices to be fair. Hope they keep the pet auto-lv thing, getting low-lv rare pets is a headache to lv them up. Yeah, there will be alot of “old” unique pet models running around, but it looks like that’ll sort itself out with all the new tameables coming out with the expansion. Plus everyone has thier favourites (Me, I’ve had my SM Hyena since I was able to tame one, even with the new tamables, I think Nanaki will still be my most trustworthy companion), so after the huge rush for devilsaurs and chimeras and such, players will find the pet that works for them and we’ll se a decrease in the mass new pet histaria. I am mean, when BC came out, everyone was running around with Blades Edge Raptors and warp stalkers. Now, though still common, they’re not “everywhere”.
I do find it kinda sad though that after running around and learning every (yes every) learnable pet skill there is, that come the new expansion all that effort and hunting went to waste. Ahh well, maybe there will be family skills to learn and I can start my happy hunting all over again. :P
I am a full fleged BM hunter so, the prospect of taming Exotic pets is awsome, I forsee many hunters re-specing to BM for just that purpose…I do look forward to seeing all the tamable pets that will be available in WotLK and what does/doesn’t make in out of Beta. Hopefully there will finally be more “hunter” geared Armor sets. I do find it hard equiping my hunter since we can pretty much use every mail drop.
Also, it would be nice if hunters (as well as other classes) could look more unique…everyone running around in the same BG gear is really really boring. I think more class specific drops would be awsome. Giving WoW a more unique fell then “oh look, another player in the same BG gear as those other hundred people…sigh”.
Is there any info on hunter gear available in the new expansion? I know petopia is for hunter PET info…but doesn’t our gear effect our pets?
…I think I just rambled off topic..,or just rambled. ah well. wanted to put that out there. :P
YAY more slots!!!!!!
*Makoes, Arathor
Regarding the stable slot price: making 200 gold is somewhere around 15 daily quests or 10 normal quests for a level-capped player. Given that you aren’t going to be keeping 5 pets equal level with you while levelling (it’s a struggle to do that with even 3 pets), I expect the intention is for players to get the first two slots early on in their hunter career in order to try out different pets, and then get the other two slots when they are at or near the level cap.
And for alts and existing level 70 hunters, 200g is already fairly cheap.
Well, just saw how rediculously strong chimara is a littlw while ago. Can’t remember exact numbers, but I do know you get a wicked attack for low focus at an instant rate with a 10 second cooldown. BROKE! That’s alli really can say. I know people say that it will even out eventually, and that players will use the critter that goes with their playing style… but come on. Who wouldn;t play with something that powerful? Well,I won’t. But I am sure everybody and their brother will be playing the new, more powerful tamables. I know i cry about this all the time but, if you are gonna make the new pets so powerful, why not make the other pets comparable. I thought bears and tallstriders really got the goods when it came to the stuff, but what the chimera are getting is just BROKE. lol Oh well, enough crying. i am off to play WoW . Haven’t been to see my pets since last night. Just had to stop in and out my 2 cents woth in. Am I alone in feeling this way though? I mean, amI really the only person who feels that some pets families are getting stacked while other are being lost in the shuffle?
*Gasps* Makoes, you tamed Red XII!!! *LAUGHS* *Coughs* Sorry, over that. I’ve had a white warg since level eleven, when I tamed Timber. Upgraded later, for the then shadow damage Lupos, and was so proud I named her Luposi. This was also back when pets couldn’t be named after any pre-existing names, including beasts and such. Worked Lu into a storyline with my Illidius, and my kitten Kiera. I wouldn’t trade either out for the world at this point, to emotionally attached. Thats why its such good news that I don’t have to tame things for new abilities anymore, and that I get an entire two new stable slots cleared up. Wrath is looking better and better.
Boy, WotLK will sure be a good time to play a hunter!
Slots are 5 silver, 5 gold, 50 gold, 150 gold.
Didn’t see if anyone else had commented on that
Oh thank god! I love you for bringing me this good news!!!! I can finally have a ghost saber and keep it! Humar too!
On a side note, I was wondering if anyone would mind explaining to me how to get on the PTR. My game name is Knarcus, 70 Tauren hunter on Boulderfist realm.
I don’t think the PTR is up currently, Knarcus. Further, not sure if this is what your getting at, but Mania and crew aren’t on the PTRs currently, they are in the beta for the expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.
Ya I know..I just wanna try the PTR to test out different classes at 70 to see what my second 70 should be after my hunter. I appreciate the reply though. (Sorry for getting off-topic Mania)
sexiest screen shot ever. serously, its long over due! three pets for 70 levels was cruel!
/happy dance !!
im so thrilled now, i dont have to release any of my 3 lions! :D
(got one of each color, black white & gold, just for fun) now i know i can go tame a tank pet & still keep my Rhu, Ashke, & Rhaj :D
very exited about the exotic pets too, as i am already BM spec, cant wait!