Comments on: Ghostcrawler’s Arcania: Auto-Cast Spiders

By: beastwalker

beastwalker — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:20:30 +0000

If the whole bone spider things is true then some one on beta needs to start asking about other pets. To the best of my knowledge however the only two models in the game that there are no tamable examples of are the Sunblade and Dawnblade Dragonhawk. There are a couple of others like the Ghost Wolf, but those I can understand since they are part of scripted events.

By: Dvorkin

Dvorkin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:51:29 +0000

As much as I love the new auto-leveling pets, I do wish there was some way for me to gather data on lower level pets without having to have 13 characters carefully arranged between levels 10 and 80. (Yes, it would take 13 to cover all the pet levels. I made a spreadsheet to prove it to myself.)

Spreadsheet? You’re kidding – it’s too easy to prove with simple claculation. :P

First, with new system, you cannot have tamed pet below level 5, so you have 76 pet levels to test. Second, each hunter can test 6 pet levels (his/her level and up to 5 levels below). 76 divided by 6 and rounded up gives 13.

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:01:01 +0000

Steady Shot macros are still useful – they make sure your first auto shot goes off at the beginning of your first steady shot cast, instead of at the end.

By: Foresti

Foresti — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:06:59 +0000

He isn’t talking about removing autocast. That would be ridiculous. He’s talking about redoing/improving the code that runs the auto cast system.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:53:31 +0000

I don’t get what Ghost Crawler was saying, about “auto-cast skills”. And that kinda sucks, for DpS, about Rabid.

By: Ikura

Ikura — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:41:17 +0000

Sorry if this does not fit in to the conversation, but does Readiness work with Bestial Wrath? I have never ventured out of the BM tree very far but now with Readiness 21 points away I am thinking about it over Beast Mastery.
I was thinking of a macro for leveling that used pets spells, my trinkets, BW and Readiness so I never missed a CD. Is Readiness worth giving up 4 points for my pets talents?

By: Selesti

Selesti — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:34:45 +0000

Great…another friggin spider…and a disgusting one at that. Oh well, still cool that they got the idea from a forum suggestion. Anyways, I wish I could help test the auto-pet leveling thing, but I can’t get into the PTR for some stupid reason. Anyway, I hope they get most of it sorted out and make patch 3.0 live soon. It’s only like a month till the release anyway. I still plan on getting my Silithid and Core Hound the minute my computer downloads the patch.

By: Ganieda

Ganieda — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:12:08 +0000

@sara
Assuming they fix the autocast issues, we shouldn’t need any macros. Shot macros were needed when our shots could clip auto shot to ensure proper timing(and stubborn people like myself never used them anyway). That has been removed, so its simply of what to fire in what order… and its still based off of steady shot spam.
And for those that want it one button easy, a /castsequence should be all you need to step you through the shots you want in the order you want them in.
Ganieda and Schrodinger, Argent Dawn

By: Ihlos

Ihlos — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:00 +0000

I’ll fish around on my character list across the servers, I know I have a spattering of low level hunter alts out there =)

By: redmest

redmest — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:07:23 +0000

anyone notice the annoying pet Ai with AoE skills? like the sporebats and gorillas? they’re family skill doesnt seem to go off unless they’re more than one enemy in their area.. which is pretty annoying.. that thunderstomp is extra DPS and the sporebat in particular. the DoT can help against rogues and such.. i end up having to turn EVERYTHING off and spamming it just to have it go off.. and it doenst always work..