Comments on: Beta Build 9095

By: Battle of the Pets! Round 3 - cat versus moth « steady shot

Battle of the Pets! Round 3 - cat versus moth « steady shot — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:18:12 +0000

[...] these ranks going to remain? Probably not. Some changes in beta build 9095 and some recent announcements by Ghostcrawler suggest that the cat’s prowess could be upset [...]

By: Vish

Vish — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:58:09 +0000

Mania I read there about you being unsure how abilities scale with hunter RAP. Don’t forger that all pets can gain +49% damage between hunter and pet talent trees. Claw on live now supposed to deal about 60-70 dmg (cant remember exact figures) its dealing ~150 per hit

By: Teika

Teika — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:40:15 +0000

I dont know about charge since cats dont have it on live bcuse of a bug, but Dash does NOT break Prowl.

Atm my lvl 67 cats Rake ticks for about 92 I think? Im quite fond of it, to bad to see it nerfed =(

By: Deathbang

Deathbang — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:56:52 +0000

I have to say decreasing rake does seem strange. Prowl is not very effective at all considering dash and charge breaks the effect so nerfing rake appears to be an attempt to make raptors worth something to me.

By: Yvelle

Yvelle — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:39:14 +0000

Okay, this may sound like a stupid question, so please don’t bash me for being an idiot. (Pretty please?) How is a cat’s DPS so high that their Rake ability needs to be decreased? They have a focus dump like every other pet, they have the same talents in their talent tree as the other ferocity pets. The only other difference I see between them and other pets is Prowl. Does Prowl really make so much of a difference in their DPS?

Looking at the skills here, Ravage was increased to do 106-150, Gore is now 122-164, and several others were also increased. And yet the max rank of Rake does 24 to 34. I think I’m missing something in the math. Would someone please explain the theorycrafting behind that? I’m confuddled. :-/

Thanks

By: Ansawa

Ansawa — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:29:34 +0000

@Shagrat: Yes, you would. It would be a good enough reason not to take animal handler if you raid with a cunning pet. :]

By: Shagrat-Turalyon

Shagrat-Turalyon — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:28:49 +0000

The expertise is nice but for a cunning pet, wouldn’t you want your target to dodge once in a while so it can use Wolverine bite?

By: nafun

nafun — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:18:45 +0000

I guess when they said they wanted to buff exotics, rather than nerf existing pets to make the talent more appealing they were… what’s a nice way to say lying?

By: Mitsuhide

Mitsuhide — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:27:23 +0000

One thing they need to fix is how Core Hounds, Chimaeras and some other pets with ranged specials do the stop-start thing when they run toward an enemy until they get close enough to use it, then run in normally. Wind Serpents never had that problem.

By: Mania

Mania — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:17:21 +0000

One thing to keep in mind when we’re looking at these tooltip numbers is that we haven’t sorted out how pet damage is scaling with hunter RAP yet. We know it’s supposed to be happening for all pet abilities, and we know from previous experience that different types of abilities may have different scaling coefficients.