Pet Respec Costs on PTR
The WotLK FAQ on Petopia says that pet respec costs on the beta realms are currently 1 copper, and so we don’t actually know how much it will eventually cost to respec your pet. And that’s true as far as it goes.
But yesterday I happened to notice that pet respec costs on the Public Test Realms are not 1 copper. In fact, on the PTR respecing your pet has the following increasing cost:
| Respec # | Cost | Respec # | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 silver | 7 | 5 gold |
| 2 | 50 silver | 8 | 6 gold |
| 3 | 1 gold | 9 | 7 gold |
| 4 | 2 gold | 10 | 8 gold |
| 5 | 3 gold | 11 | 9 gold |
| 6 | 4 gold | 12+ | 10 gold |
Now there are a couple things to note here.
First off, I believe that these are the same amounts that it currently costs to untrain your pet on the live realms. So it is possible that Blizzard just hasn’t gotten around to changing these costs yet.
On the other hand, it we are now awfully close to the new pet system going live so there isn’t much time left if they are going to change it. And really, there doesn’t seem to be much reason that Blizzard would change these costs — they seem just as reasonable for respecing a pet as they do for retraining it.
So we can probably assume that these will (continue to) be the costs to change your pets abilities around.
(Incidentally, it’s important to understand that each pet runs up their own respec tab. So respecing all five of your pets in quick succession will only cost you 50 silver (10 silver X 5), not 6 gold 60 silver.)
Secondly, and rather more importantly, pet respec costs don’t seem to work quite like character respec costs. The cost to respec your character goes up as you respec; and according to WoW Wiki it also decays over time: “This cost will be reduced by a rate of 5 gold per month to a minimum of 10 gold.”
In my (admittedly) very simple tests with pet respecs, the cost appeared to reset all the way back down to 10 silver (instead of decaying 1 gold at a time). And this reset wasn’t dependent on time so far as I could see — or at least not simple real-world time. Fight with a pet for a bit and log back in the next day and his respec cost had reset, but stick another one in the stable overnight and his hadn’t. So … there is a bit more research to do there!
But in the meantime, it looks like we have a general range for the cost of respcing a pet come Patch 3.0.
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Awesome so what your saying is over a so and so month time period the cost of respecing goes down, eh? Nice, Nice i love now i can respec without paying so much sweet, plus pets can respec thats cool too.
Nice, Nice, i love how* mind my grammer (haha)
10g isnt that bad either. Though I’m trying to figure out why my pet still doesn’t have charge (not even Swoop) on the PTR and it’s a wolf. It’s not making sense. Funnily enough, I noticed that if you are BM and your talents are redistributed (like mine was again on the PTR) they took my 4 extra points out of my first tier talents on the pet. So It was kind of funny how I had all the upper tier (heart of the phoenix and such) but nothing in the first tier.
XD Ah bugs.
As far as I can see, those are the normal costs that are on live right now, and the behavior you’re talking about is exactly the same too. Pet’s respect costs reset to 10 silver every day. I don’t remember ever seeing another system than this one for the almost 4 years I’ve been playing my hunter. O_o;
Speaking of pet specs, how cool are the rumors/news of duel specs for hunters. I am so having a “tank pet” spec and a DPS spec (MM or BM cant decide yet) to swap between when and where i need them. I wonder if the duel specs will carry over to pets? Also general vauge question how are pet stables being handled? I remember hearing about pets appearing similarly to the new mount and vanity pet pages, is this true? Or is are they still in the towns? Also little off topic, but does anyone remember news about character last names being added in WOTLK? I swear I saw it officaly mentioned but cant find a thing on it now.
*edit* the duel specs are not just for hunters but I thought they were good particularly in the new tank or dps pet choices. As far as i know all classes are open to this
Does this imply that one could simply train a new pet of the same variety and it’s specs and respec costs would reset to 10s immediately upon training? As a result, would I then be able to train a pet, try a spec, retrain the same pet model, try a spec, etc etc. all for 10 silver/respec?
I’m sure no-one knows for sure on this question until the codebase goes live but if one were to consider this, it does seem less useful to have any cost at all.
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Almost positive last names aren’t being added, there would have been more news about it. Stables are being handled the exact same way as they were before, with two more slots than before. I don’t know anything about pet dual specs.
Hai guise, i got a new picture and a new name thingy because i’m now superobsessed with wasps. I’d like to know how easily gold is acquired in WotLK, because 10g won’t be too bad if gold is easier to come by than in BC… thankees.
Well I earn about 10g per daily now, I’m guessing maybe 20g a daily in WotLK min highest guess at about 30g. But even now for a 70 hunter 10g is nothing much.
ok I decided “king of stings” is just too gaudy so i’m king of wasps now. I agree that 10g isn’t too much but it’s good to know that it will be even less in the expansion =^D
and for whatever reason my icon refuses to change…
Dual specs is something Blizzard are still working on, it won’t be in at Wrath launch. There are a lot of tricky issues they will have to work through before that functionally can be added (e.g. when you respec, you will likely want different action bar and keybind setups, hunters will need special handling to cope with the 51-point BM talent, what happens if a Titan’s Grip warrior respecs but doesn’t have room in their bags to remove the second 2-hander?, will each spec have a specific set of associated glyphs? etc, etc). They have said they still want to do it though - so hopefully we will see it in a content patch next year some time.
Regarding last names, Neth mentioned the other day that surnames are still something they might add in the future, but it isn’t high on the to-do list at this point in time (and definitely won’t be in for Wrath release).
Does respecing effect how mich you have to feed your pet? At curent pets lose happyness faster after respecing.
kie where did you hear that? iv respeced my ghost wolf several times and never had any feeding issues come up.
if your talking about the thing the trainer says,i think thats just some poorly worded text,used as an excuse for why its supposed to cost more each time…
kai*
damn weird lag…
i always thought it was only 10 silver to respec a pet… lol. i dont respec my pets more than 1 time in a day, so i wouldnt know.
“In my (admittedly) very simple tests with pet respecs, the cost appeared to reset all the way back down to 10 silver (instead of decaying 1 gold at a time). And this reset wasn’t dependent on time so far as I could see — or at least not simple real-world time. Fight with a pet for a bit and log back in the next day and his respec cost had reset, but stick another one in the stable overnight and his hadn’t. So … there is a bit more research to do there!”
Mania, when you used to go out & fight for a bit with the new pet did it ever level or gain loyalty when you did? In my own testing I found that when my pet gained a level the cost to reset his talent points was reset. I believe the reason for this was b/c of the costs to choose the next rank of a skill. Like avoidance rank 1 costs we’ll say 15sp, rank 2 costs 30sp. When your pet levels up enough to use rank 2 you pay the 30sp + rank 1 15sp = 45 total sp spent. If you were to reset the points you could just buy the rank 2 for 30sp, & save that 15sp for another skill. Once the patch is released we could do tests to see if the cost reset is time based or based on your pet leveling up. Hopefully this helps.
Hellshot, when you train a new rank of pet skill, you only pay the difference between ranks, not the total of both of them. So in your example you will only spend 15 training points for rank 2, since you already paid 15 for rank 1.
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