Ghostcrawler has posted a thread in the WotLK Beta Hunter forum looking for feedback on pet talents:
We need to finalize the pet talents pretty soon, so I wanted to created a thread that focused on their discussion. There are already some good posts on the topic, but they are mixed in with threads on various aspects of hunters.
So please give the pet talents some love here.
Focus on specific talents, and on how the trees are put together. Please don’t use this particular thread to discuss more global pet issues (like feeding, leveling or PvP burstability) or pet stats in general.
So if you are in the beta and you have anything to say about pet talents, please get over there and give feedback!
[edit] Now that’s service! Ghostcrawler has responded to the feedback thread with a list of changes they will be making based directly on our feedback:
Here are some changes you’ll see next build or so. I may have forgotten some.
– Taunt no longer shares a cooldown with Growl and Cower.
– Avoidance, not Great Resistance, is the prereq for Wolverine Bite.
– We are still trying to rework Heart of the Phoenix to get around the shortcomings.
– Tenacity and Ferocity pets lost their armor multiplier but it was given to all pets at base. The net effect is that Cunning pets won’t be at a stat deficit compared to the other trees.
– Roar of Recovery provides more mana.
– Lick Your Wounds now with faster licking technology.
– Carrion Feeder cooldown dropped to 30. We can’t easily change the range because this spells uses the same tech as the undead racial.
– Focus cost removed from Bullheaded.
– Not directly talent-related, but rather than reworking Prowl, cats got a second damage ability, Rake. It felt odd for them to shift from most desired pet to one of the least desired.As far as who belongs to which tree, those decisions were made largely based on the pet special ability, not what ecologically makes more sense with the tree’s theme. Strong CC or other PvP-useful abilities were generally given the Cunning tree, just because we didn’t also want to see those same pets as the most popular when raiding or soloing. The goal is to have a lot more options about which pet you’re going to bring. With the Cunning stat change and tree rework, hopefully that will include those animals as well.
Rather than start another thread, feel free to talk about any of the pet family abilities (Rake, Web, Poison Spit etc.) as well within this one.
Very nice! And since GC has opened the thread to feedback on pet family skills, you should definitely head back with more feedback now!
(Thanks to Gaj for the link!)
I’m with Xanar, yes, I like the idea of being able to change *MY* pets size. And let’s face it, we’ve all been annoyed by that one guy with a bat in a tight hallway at one point. it doesn’t matter what your raid experience is, we’ve been there before lol. However, imagine that with the corehounds or rhinos. They are quite large. Don’t get me wrong, I love large pets, but having something optional control the size of *my* pet would be nice.
Now, I DONT want it to be a glyph though. A spell would be perfect. Sure, I like my big rhino outside, but when I want to go somewhere and have him offtank (let’s say), I’d like it manageable.
Perhaps what they can do is change pet size in instances? Say that if you zone in, all pets revert to a certain hieght level, like they receive a buff that shrinks them when you’re in an instance. Then when you step out, bam normal sized pet.
Heh. I love how people are all ‘QQ cats has no speshul dps skill they lose dps onoez they suk now’ and so Bliz goes ‘Hey, cats get another damage skill!’ and now you hear ‘QQ cats haz too much dps unfair! unfair!’ … Guess you really can’t make everyone happy.
Still, I’m VERY grateful for the speed of changes and the willingness Bliz is showing to respond to valid arguments. I think rather than a glyph though, an alchemical elixir of ‘Shrink Pet’ would be great (not that I’m an alchemist or anything *cough*) but a consumable would make rather more sense than burning a glyph slot on it. Sort of like anti-petbiscuits?
BTW, anyone that says ‘u clik u nub u no raid’ needs to back off. Because I’m a devout clicktargeter, and I raid all the time with no problem. Sometimes I use tab to cycle targets, but generally… *shrug* The four raid guilds that habitually ask me along on their raids can’t all be in error, IMO. (BTW… my raven does fine in Kara! Woot, carrion birds.)
Xanar: It’s not “funny”. I didn’t say or call you anything. Don’t be a jerk. And no, so-called “everyone” don’t wanna call me a “noob”. Nor do they wanna “tell me to stop complaining”, jerk.
Mania has already stated before to be polite on the forums. If you were wronged, doesn’t mean to wrong someone else. If you don’t agree with someone, that’s fine, but let’s not clutter up the comment page with angry comments at each other.
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Whatever Rika. It applies to HIM too. Don’t frigging take sides here. You didn’t say anything to that stupid guy and you should’ve too. That’s wrong.
I’d test if they’d only send me a key already. (And if my SO cuts out the denial about us needing a new computer.)