My main issue with pets tanking is that a lot of the time healers don’t automatically heal the pet. my guilds not so bad for it, but pugging is a pain.

As for pvp, keeping ranged is an issue, especially while waiting for cooldowns on things like disengage and deterance. pets go down far to fast against other players. Pets are a part of the hunter, and when the pet falls, there goes a good portion of or damage (though, I am looking at it from a BM pov)

Visible pet armor would be fun, as long as you could choose to/not to have it. If only blizzard could make a “for giggles” realm, in which it implements things people want. Pet armor, mount names, pet and mount “paint” or “dyes”. All the silly things we’d like to mess with… Pet murlocs, all types of disguises to make your char appear like various mobs.. Mages with free-form/flowing fire and ice elementals that look chinese dragon-esque… Could babble forever all the stuff that would be fun, but I’ll refrain from continuing.

Also I’m definitely cheering the idea of shooting at melee range though and think we do need better pet related glyphs and possibly pet armor. On a side note is it just me or is that glyph for eyes of the beast the most useless thing ever? I don’t know about you but I only use eyes of the beast for scouting with a stealthed cat or for goofing around.

anyway cheers to all the hunters out there. Once again thanks for all the pet info on the site :)

It still pisses me off that Warlocks get a glyph for each minion, death knights get an AMAZING glyph for their ghouls, and beast masters get a cooldown reduction on beastial wrath. It’s good and all, but the other’s are effects that are on ALL the time, and not just potentially once a minute, at a button press.

This is not something I ever thought I’d say, but it’s probably time to just retire pet happiness now. Back in the day it meshed well with pet loayality, but now it just seems like an un-needed hindrance. It only really effects one spec out of the three, and can end up to be a huge hit if your pet dies at the wrong time, or at ANY time in PvP. Especially in PvP, since its entirely possible that they are going to die again very soon at that point.

For the record, I don’t like the dumbing down of WoW. But there is a difference in dumbing down the game, and making it fair for all classes. For years hunters had to keep a large store of arrows and several stacks of food, something no other class had to do. Even warlocks simply needed to soul drain something, and not spend money. With pet talents, it isn’t like happiness is a huge deal anymore, but it is still a deal. It used to fit the feel, but that time has passed.

Blizzard also stated that they wanted to give tanacity pets the ability to off-tank in intances (there was some discussion on this in one of manias arcania, long time ago…when pet talant spec was first hinted at) However, since pets can’t be Deff cap’d, there was a major flaw were pets just couldn’t handle off-tank…let alone trying to convince a healer in short time to heal the pet when the tank died to avoide wipes…
I guess having a hunter has made me more aware of pets in that scense, when I play me resto druid. I find myself keeping close tabs on pets health.

I have alwas thought that being able to equip pets with thier own armor was about the easiest way that blizz could fix the issue with things like resil,def, etc. They did do an alright job on the resistance aspect though. I also like that idea of pets having thier own glyph sets…both the above ideas are good not only for hunters but also for proffessions, as well as for those unused emblems and shards.