I don’t pay a lot of attention to non-pet hunter news, but this post from Ghostcrawler, referenced on MMO Champion today, did catch my eye:
We talked about it a great deal today and agreed that we probably over-nerfed BM. Marks is in a good spot and Survival might be too high once we look at the changes we are making to all other classes.
The Lunar Festival started today!
That doesn’t have much to do with pets, really, but it did bring us final confirmation that Omen — the big furry two-headed Kurken-like raid boss of Moonglade during the Lunar Festival — cannot be tamed. As you can see, he is officially a demon.
Patch 3.0.8 hit the live servers this morning, and it’s a doozy. As always, you can find the latest patch notes on WoW’s patch notes page, but here’s some of the hunter-specific bits:
It’s true! It’s finally true! On the Public Test realms right now, Blue Flutterers and Royal Blue Flutterers — the low level blue moths of Bloodmyst Isle — can finally be tamed!
And just in case, I re-checked the following as well:
I haven’t had much chance to stay updated on the current Public Test Realm, but I noticed today that MMO Champion reported an update to the PTR patch notes yesterday — complete with handy old-vs-new notations — and a new build (9438) today. So if you’re jonesing for PTR info, swing by MMO Champion, ’cause unfortunately they know more than I do.
RFC stands for “Request For Comments” — which basically means that I need your help. I’m getting a lot of questions about the pros and cons of each pet family and in particular the pet family skills. But there’s no way that I really test all the pet families in every situation myself, so I want to hear about your experiences with them!
Today’s RFC: The Chimaera family and their family skill Froststorm Breath.
This is just a quick note to my poor abused readers to say, “Happy New Year!” and give you a quick status update. Feel free to skip this post if you’re more interested in hunter pets than in the rest of my life. (Goodness knows I am.)
