I spent the afternoon moving boxes, one carload at a time. And I get home, shower, and sit down to finish updating the pet skills and … new beta build! Damnit, Blizzard! How can I catch up if you keep updating?!
I haven’t finish downloading this build yet, but what I am hearing so far sounds like more hunter talent changes and relatively few hunter pet changes. Tigole posted quick and dirty patch notes on the beta forum:
–Heroics have all been re-tuned. We’d really like feedback on the Heroics this push.
–25 person raids have been re-tuned
–Some tuning changes to 10 person raids
–Many class changes. You won’t like the ones made to your own class but you’ll think the changes made to the 9 other classes are all overpowered.
–More Icecrown quests and polish. We’d LOVE more Icecrown quest feedback. Please use the in-game feedback UI or post in the quest forums.
–More Dalaran polish
–Performance updates and new performance logging to help get the servers in good condition.
–We’re working on getting a beta Glyph vendor in the build so you guys will have quick and easy access to all of the glyphs for feedback. That system *might* make this push.
And I’ll be posting any pet changes I run across as soon as I finish this download. In the meantime, let me know if you see or hear anything neat!
[edit] Core Hounds have indeed gotten smaller. I’ve added a pic of Kaet with her new “Core Puppy” above.
Ey-oop! More from Koraa:
“We still are working on bumping the base health of the pets up.”
Good, good ^^
Curumor: Oh I know. I was happy just with it’s original size, and like I said, I’m A-OK with them shrinking it from it’s original size. I just think it’s too small now. Just above a dwarf? I mean really? That’s just dumb in my opinion. but that’s what it is, just my opinion. Everyone seems to think that I want them back to their original size, and that’s not the case. Or people seem to think that I am against their shrinking. That’s not true, so please stop saying “they were too big before”. Yes, I agree, they should’ve shrunk. I don’t want them back to the original size; I just don’t want them *this* tiny. Blizzard could’ve made them smaller without making them this small. That’s all I’m saying.
@Cur That’s what I was thinking, what if one of the new raids are like… extremely thin or in hall ways and the damn thing takes up the whole hall, you’ll never be invited to raids ever. ._. I too like big pets but yeah personally they were TOO big. From what I see blizzard was almost trying to make them look like a dog size, but I also do agree with Rikaku, they did make them a little too tiny… They should give them a tiny boost.
I think they should make Core Hounds about half the size they were before the shrink. Part of the beauty of exotics is that they stand apart from normal pets. I know the fact that they are new families entirely is part of that, but size also plays a role (and others would probably agree, but I can only speak for myself). Devilsaurs seem a bit too tiny too in my opinion. Though I still may be sticking with a silithid…a poison net to stop runners…sounds like a very good ability to me. I’m gonna try them all eventually though, and all three (that’s right THREE) of my hunters will have an exotic. Though my tauren and troll will have to level up in a hurry to get theirs.
By the way, on the netting thing…silithid much less creepy than a spider. And the little dance they do is funny too. My first double post I think. :P
I understand the concept of panningback untill your char is a little colorful glob in the middle and you can see for miles is a way to go. But I personally like to see my character and what’s around him or her with out a telescope. I’m not panning back to max camera range just because my pet is the size of a Panzer.
If you want um big, you’re a BM hunter, you have to be to tame um. Hit um with Bestial wrath. they get plenty big then. :)
Pepsi: LMAO I don’t mean pan back *that* far XD I probably do just a few “feet” behind the default max. I’m OCD and can’t stand it when my Drakes wings weren’t full in the picture on max default. I have it set so I get just that extra 1-2 in-game feet for my drake’s wingspan.
Yeah I cant play ‘telescope far” either, makes me dizzy. XD
Pepsi: …Duh, they did over downsize the Devilsaur’s size alot (like they did core hounds)… :-P.
Ok I took my premade out and tamed a few of them.
And… they are a smidge small. Not saying they’re tiny but when you’re a troll (( the premade choice that hunters get)) and you’re taller than it is, it looks a little small. I can see how some could complain. I still like it but yeah it’s __ALOT__ smaller than it was.
Question to all though, Screen bounce.
My green glowy core hound makes thudding steps but doesn’t bounce the screen, which is good. I HATE screen bounce and I won’t have a rhino because of it…. but the white furry core hound HAS screen bounce.
Is this consistant with your experience in taming them or are they going to make my pretty green CH bounce?
And a second question, do all Rhino’s cause screen bounce? The ones I’ve seen do… but with one core hound causing bounce and the other one not.. it’s open that one rhino might and another not.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y245/Drakkena550/SmallPuppy.jpg
Just for a reference with my Tauren Hunters Core Hound (Kratos) the size just seems WAY too small. And yes, The Kurken has Screen bounce but he’s the only one it might be nerfed but who knows *shrugs*
Blizzard needs to make them a bit bigger. The size they are now is pathetic. I don’t see how a level 70 Core Hound is smaller than a level 30 Turtle in Hillsbrad! Heck, while I was in Stormwind, quite a few people came to me to see my Core Hound, and how ridiculously puny it became. While people where watching, I also saw that the Night Elf’s saber mounts and the Human’s horse mounts where bigger than my poor Core Hound!
Come on! That’s just not right! They really need to fix this!
As for the screen bounce you’re asking about Pepsi, it’s even worst than before! Why? Because they made the Core Hounds too small! For one step the huge version made, the new wittle version makes like 4 or 5 steppes! This is making the screen shake at least 4 times more often! Ugh!
OMG 4 times the screen bounce?! That would give me such a headache! It was bad enough doing the kodo roundup quest in desolace and the kodo bouncing the screen. XD
excuse my language but I think its total SHIT that they keep decreasing the size of the exotic pets!I mean come on you got hat far and accomplished that much its a BIG DEAL so why not have a BIG PET to go with it…ok let’m shrink just uh bit but a Devilsaur should look like a Devilsaur not a damn raptor and a Corehound should be bigger than a Bear!
On another note anyone see the improvements to the Death Knight flying mounts F@#%iN MAJOR upgrade from the boney rubber ducky look they had before.
Go to mmo-champion.com to see them!
All pets shrink when you tame them. It is the way of taming. or if you look at the bright side of it “you get what you pay for”
… wesley… dude… my Core Hound used to be a bit taller than my draenei hunter, and now it’s bellow boob height. We know pets shrink when we tame them, it’s just that this has to do with Blizzard making them smaller than they where once tamed. Not that they didn’t need it, but not by THAT much. =/
My thoughts….
I like the new core hound size =)
I thought that they blocked too much of my view when they were really big.
I wouldn’t mind around Slight size increase however (around 8% the way to where they were), as I think that would make them just about right.
I think the size of the dino is about right for it, though its animations are very strange when it runs.
Biggest issue for me though is the screen shaking some of the pets have now, it makes it hard to select people, and is hard on the eyes after a while.