Comments on: PTR 3.1 – Early Round-up

By: Jaeger

Jaeger — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:13:55 +0000

I think the level should be set to the same level Exotics are available.. otherwise BM’s could get caught with no pet when they use dual-spec switch… so 60 imo

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:10:01 +0000

Considering a hunter does most of his learning,eperimenting and leveling, 1-79, before you hit 80, is a pretty strong case to lower the level on CSP.

At 80 raiding youll have your dps pet with you anyways, and pvp you will be in a city with a stable master, or switched when getting in que. Certainly dosnt make any more sense to have the talent available at 80 only, then it would be for any other level, say level at least like one poster mentioned, that would be ok with me, as a last resort.

It should still have the level cap reduced though. Especially being on a 30 minute cool down if it goes live this way. Considering hunters should have had an ability like this since the day WOW launched. If locks can pet summon whenever, wherever, then the least blizz can do is give us CSP with its 30 min cd to all hunters.

By: Solymnar

Solymnar — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:54:36 +0000

Holy hanna…pummel?

An interrupt on a 10sec cooldown?!?! Niiiiiiice.

By: Tori

Tori — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:22:18 +0000

Noooo! There goes my rhino bowling. ;_;

I’m really going to miss that one. It was so fun running lower levels through dungeons like RFC and just aggroing the entire instance and then knocking them back. xD Ah well….

By: Ryai

Ryai — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:32:12 +0000

‘Not to go off topic or anything but could someone check and see if the Vargul Blighthound is still tamable? I’m paranoid that it will be ninja-made untamable before I can get to 74.’

Someone confirmed with talking to a GM that the blighthound IS an intended beast to be tame-able.

By: Venera

Venera — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:47:56 +0000

Not to go off topic or anything but could someone check and see if the Vargul Blighthound is still tamable? I’m paranoid that it will be ninja-made untamable before I can get to 74.

By: Korzak

Korzak — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:23:51 +0000

I don’t see the problem with having ‘Call Stabled Pet’ be at level 80. It is only really at level 80 that a lot of outposts do not have a stablemaster. Is it a pain having to go to the stablemaster? Yes…but at least we don’t need to do the whole Soul Stone thing to summon pets.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:59:27 +0000

If you think dual spec is bad for hunters, you are crazy.
Is your PvE raid spec good for PvP? Probably not, or if you took some PvP stuff with your PvE, this will allow you to drop those talents and improve your PvE ability.
If nothing else, you could have a Raid BM spec and a solo BM spec that centers more around the pet being a tank.
Also, This would make trying out new specs much easier. And, with the way Blizzard has been nerfing buffing nerfing buffing nerfing the hunters recently, it will be nice to be able to solo or 5 man with your beloved spec, but still bring out the raid DPS spec when the time comes.

My only concern with the Call Stabled Pet ability is the CD. It would be crazy to call a pet every fight, but at 30 minutes, it does kind of hurt our multi-spec capability. I personally love BM, but even with the BM buffs, some raid bosses will kill a BM’s dps by killing or incapacitating the pet. You could have a SV and BM raid spec. Switch to SV for Heigan, send your spirit beast back and call out your wolf. After the fight, switch back to BM…and wait for 25 minutes to get your pet back…/sigh.

Heck, not only could you run a couple different raid specs, but with some planning you could have several different raid pets. 1 with more health, another with a certain ability that helps in that fight. It would be cool to see the interesting uses people could find for their pets…but with a 30 minute CD we will be pretty limited.

By: Kikaku

Kikaku — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:48:21 +0000

J, can u take a pic of the maybe-new kitty skin? o.o

By: Ansawa

Ansawa — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:30:19 +0000

I can see Call Stabled Pet being moved to level 60, which is around when most hunters begin giving serious consideration to rounding out their stables–and BM hunters will be able to start taming exotics, leaving them open to being petless due to a respec in the field.

Before that, most hunters seem to be fine with one or two pets, and the trek back to the stable master to switch them.