[Editor's note: This has nothing to do with hunters or pets. Feel free to skip it.]
I’ve been trying to write this post for some time, but it keeps coming out wrong. You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting as much here lately — where ‘lately’ can mean anything up to and including all the way back to the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, depending on what you mean by ‘much’.
Today Big Red Kitty announced his (temporary?) retirement from WoW as he rededicates himself to his family.
Hunter Darkwood, from my own home server of Farstriders, has posted on the WoW Suggestion forum:
And I would like to suggest that Blizzard honor him somehow. Maybe a rare tameable Red Kitty somewhere. Or a non-combat pet (red kitty of course) but if you can’t do that then just give us a Dwarf Hunter roaming around IF saying things like “fo’ shizzle” and asking for a rasberry Latte.
Thanks to a post on MMO Champion I noticed that Blizzard has updated the official patch notes for Patch 3.1 on the Public Test Realms. Unfortunately this only seems to have been done for Europe so far, but I’m sure the US PTR notes will catch up soon.
Slivers posted on our forums this morning that the most recent build of Patch 3.1 on the Public Test Realms — which I haven’t even bothered to post about yet since there seemed to be no hunter changes — includes a fascinating change to the new Call Stabled Pet skill.
As Slivers says:
Even though [Call Stabled Pet] remains on a 30minute cooldown, Blizzard has linked a reset of the timer to the Dual-Spec capability. Everytime you switch talent-specs, [Call Stabled Pet] is made available!
Public Test Realm testing for Patch 3.1 continues with a new build — build 9722 — today. I don’t see any new patch notes from Blizzard, but as usual MMO Champion has mined the client data for changes. They found a short list of hunter changes including:
Marksmanship
- Hunter’s Mark now lasts 5 min. (Up from 2 min)
Survival
- Black Arrow shares a cooldown with Trap spells.
- Entrapment now prevent target from moving 2/3/4sec. (Down from 2/4/6sec)
- Trap Mastery now increases the number of snakes summoned by Snake Trap by 3/6/9. (Down from 30/60/90, typo)
I’m not able to get online yet, and even if I could I’ve mostly been concentrating on the Argent Tournament. So please let me know if you hear about any other fascinating changes!