Comments on: Ghostcrawler on Spirit Strike

By: Zaesar

Zaesar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:07:22 +0000

I am a rare pet collector, I’ve had nearly every rare in the game, and Loque of course was a must have for me.

It’s not only spirit strike that is currently sub-par, it’s just basic stats. My Rak’Shiri does a good 40 dps more just opening up her pet tab, not even in combat/buffed. My Devilsaur coming in very closely behind that. They are all specced the same, they were all Happy. I had the same gear on.

As stated, I hope Blizz realizes people don’t want Loque to be hugely beyond any other ferocity pet.. but even remotely close would be nice.

By: Kalli

Kalli — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:16:30 +0000

That sounds about right, Arkhias. I’ve seen Loque ONCE in person (my guildmate’s spirit beast notwithstanding)a nd that was when my main was level 72 and wandering around SB very early in LK.

On a semi-related note, I’m starting to go out of my mind searching for King Krush, so I feel for the hunters hunting for Loque. Is there any truth to the pair sharing a spawn timer? Is the six hour (minimum) spawn rumor accurate? Does anyone know of a listing of King Krush’s possible locations? I’ve been checking the usual sources, but people seem to be less likely to track his spawn points/patroling paths than Loque’s. As terrible as searching for Loque must be, it seems like King Krush is even more elusive, in addition to being ridiculously more difficult to (solo) tame than kill. He seems to be getting heavily killed on my server; I’ve seen him ONCE and he was dead. :/ Have yet to see a hunter with him or another hunter than my guildie with Loque, although I did run into an orc hunter with the hydra-croc earlier today. I wondered if he was a reader here or if he’d just happened to notice that little guy was tamable. Either way, I was happy to see him. xD

By: Arkhias

Arkhias — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:54:15 +0000

I’m almost entirely certain the rumored 10 minute despawn timer is untrue. I think what BRK was trying to say by only being up for 10 minutes at a time, was that within 10 minutes he is either tamed or killed.

By: Bunky the Monkey

Bunky the Monkey — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:34:42 +0000

We can only hope this issue, along with other hunter pet issues, are being fixed today ;)

By: Thorkas

Thorkas — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:45:36 +0000

Spirit Strike burns the enemy for 85 to 115 Arcane damage and then an additional 85 to 115 after 10 sec. Cooldown is also 10 seconds, meaning it instantly casts again after this hit (effectively applying the damage twice in one go of course). Longetivity talent points actually make the cooldown 7 seconds. This “refreshes” the dot, keeping it from ever applying the second damage. This basically means Spirit Strike does half damage as intended. Ghostcrawler told us they would fix this cooldown problem and adjust its dps accordingly. This is what Garf meant

dmg – - – - – - – - dmg dmg – - – - – - – - dmg dmg – - – - – - – - dmg
working properly)
dmg – - – - – - – - – - dmg – - – - – - – - – - dmg – - – - – - – - – -
not working properly)

By: Gundersson

Gundersson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:57:02 +0000

If they don’t want one pet being ‘the best’ I hope it means that a gorilla nerf is inbound.

By: Satyr

Satyr — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:15:46 +0000

I still want to know about this 10 minute timer. How has this been confirmed??

I know BigRedKitty stated that it was. I want proof; however, not for myself since I got my Spirit Beast this morning at 5:22 AM server.

By: Icecrystal

Icecrystal — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:07:33 +0000

Hmm… I don’t really have any trouble with Frost (my Spirit Beast), maybe it’s because I haven’t noticed :>

By: Alyrria

Alyrria — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:40:05 +0000

I guess I must have misunderstood the issue with Spirit Strike + Longevity as it was explained on Wowhead, because I’ve never noticed a problem. The moment that the first Spirit Strike runs out (and my pet has the focus for it) he reapplies it. My understanding was that the issue was that Loque’nahak acted like he still had a 10 second cooldown on Spirit Strike rather than 7.

I haven’t seen the issue with the actual dps of it, but then I have a moral aversion to number crunching. :3 I’m not interested in min/maxing, so I just enjoy him and am thankful he holds aggro off me just as well as any other pet I’ve had.

By: Rottingham

Rottingham — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:51:19 +0000

SPIRIT CRAB FTW!!!
I still say that since Blizz made a one-of-a-kind pet for ferocity they should do the same for tenecity and cunning. Cunning could have a large toad with a long range tounge attack that sticks the enemy in place, and tenecity could have a carnivorous snail that spews ooze all over the enemy for nature damage and slows them. Now those would be One-of-a-king pets I would try to get!