Comments on: PTR 3.1 Initial Patch Notes

By: Mania’s Arcania » PTR 3.1 Patch Notes Updated

Mania’s Arcania » PTR 3.1 Patch Notes Updated — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:56:47 +0000

[...] at the hunter stuff. Note that these are the complete notes, so they will include things from the previous version of the patch notes [...]

By: Jaeger

Jaeger — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:10:57 +0000

*Prays to the heavens the AOE for ALL Tenacity is true…*

…

*Prays a little more*

Welcome back Turkle and EarthwormJim!

By: Ryai

Ryai — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:36:29 +0000

But am I the only one finding it funny a tenacity pet got a PvP talent in its place?

By: Rikaku

Rikaku — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:19:38 +0000

YES FINALLY!

By: GraceAlone

GraceAlone — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:49:23 +0000

Double post sorry,

Thunderstomp is now a pet talent available to any Tenacity pet. Now your bears, crocs or ESPECIALLY CRABS can join in the AE tanking fun.

w00t!

By: GraceAlone

GraceAlone — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:47:03 +0000

NOOOOO!!!!! My poor gorilla is losing Thunderstomp! It’s one of the many undocumented changes over on mmo-champion atm. The ‘rilla was simply l33t for farming and grinding. The new skill is showing as:

Pummel – Pummel the target, interrupting spellcasting and preventing any spell in that school from being cast for 4 sec. (20 Focus, 5 yd range, Instant, 10 sec cooldown)

Truly a sad, sad day :(

By: Rikaku

Rikaku — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:09:14 +0000

Dweezil:
I would explain, but I covered it pretty thoroughly above (or so I felt XD), plus I’m short on time here (aaah classes! Midterms = death) so I shant lol In any case, I feel you. I don’t see these talents as any sort of fix either. I wanted to test the numbers from current to PTR, but with the PTR client crashing every 30 secs, it’s impossible (stable server yes plz!)

And I feel you. I haven’t been anything but BM for well, since alpha of WoW and even I’m feeling like I’m boxed into a corner. Looks like I’ll be hitting that Hunter trainer soon too =/

By: Dweezill

Dweezill — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:51:44 +0000

Rikaku,
Still don;t see what you are giving up. I personally have everything I need fr dps. I don;t take any of the other stuff. I very seldom have to revive pet and I don;t take the other stuff. Guess it just depends on who you are grouping with. Anyway, I personally don’t see the new talents being any kind of a fix, but I giess I am gonn ahve to wait to see what else Bliz has in mind. If t is anything like the last couple patches,i am sure I will be disappointed.

PS
I did it. I specced to SV. Not something I wanted to do, but it was somethig I felt that i had to do.

By: Rikaku

Rikaku — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:47:47 +0000

Dweezil:
Getting 2/2 in each of the new talents ferocity spec isn’t the trouble, it’s what you must sacrifice to achieve 2/2 in those 2 talents that’s sparked the debate.

Ryai:
We’re all snippy, trust me, I’m a raging ball of angry right now. Now, personally, if I take heart of the phoenix, I don’t take Imp. Revive pet as well (now I do take Spirit Bond and Imp Mend pet all the time). My pet never dies 2x in a 10 min period unless we wipe on Heigan or something drastic like that. What I’m merely pointing out is, is that my case is the same case for alot of BM hunters. Many hunters don’t see the point in taking both Imp Rev Pet when we have insta-rez. Of course, this isnt the situation for everyone, but keep in mind I was speaking on general terms.

As far as tenacity talents go, I find them all pretty lackluster. I don’t take any of the last tier tenacity talents (they just seem so pointless to me if they’re for a group buff and I never use a tenacity pet in a group). Taunt I have taken, and it’s pretty lame that it’s manual cast. Taunt would be great if it worked alot like Voidwalker’s AoE taunt (in that whenever a new mob aggro’d suddenly, Taunt would automatically go off as an AoE threat ability).

By: Dweezill

Dweezill — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:30:42 +0000

As for the nw pet talents…. if thy are at the bottom of the tree, there will be no problem getting 2 of them maxed. I didn;t have the 4 extra points frm Beast mastery, and I had every dps booster the tree had to offer. I have Rabid and Call oF The Wild already specced. So, if I got 4 points from BM, I would be able to spend the 4 points in any combination on the new skills. you just gotta sk yourself, “If ia m looking to bosst DPS, do i really need this?”. If you can’t get 4 points worth of the new stuff from the BM spec, you are speccing your dps pet wrong.