BM 2B Buffed

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.

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Lunar Festival Starts!

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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 is Live

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:

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PTR 3.0.8: Flutterers can be Tamed! (Slime Cannot)

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:

PTR 3.0.8 Update

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.

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RFC: Chimaeras and Froststorm Breath

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.

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Happy New Year!

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.)

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