What really ticks me off is not only are the rare spawns “rare”, which is a bit of a headache in and of itself, but they (i) drop blue quality randomized loot and lots of gold and(ii) part of an achievement; but they also SHARE spawn timers with several other rares.
That means every 6hrs or so, you have a 33% chance (or worse) for that specific rare spawn to be up.
Spawn timers are bad enough, but to make them share with others? That’s the worst idea Blizzard has had since they came up with Might tier set design.

It’s a terrible “quick fix” to supposedly give Hunters what they want- more rare spawns and pets who are trophies. However, Brokentooth was an extremely wonderful prize to have back in the day, and she only had a spawn timer and four (was it five?) spawn points, near each other. She was hard to get, a great trophy pet, but not the nightmare rare spawns are now.

That being said, I am one of the extremely lucky hunters to have both Loque’nahak and Gondria both gracing my stables- and only a few days of camping between both. I have several hunter friends that I cruise the zones with to help them find those precious pets, day after day. I think it’s awful to force us to scour the zones for a spawn that doesn’t even have a 50% chance to even spawn!!

FYI: Mania Your missing a Dragonhawk skin I know its not tamable but good to KNOW:when fight the DRAGONHAWK avatar in Zul’aman when he turns into a DRAGONHAWK the skin will be UNIQUE to him

When people were crying about the new bottom tier pet talents and bloating, the Blizz response was that they didn’t want you to have everything. I believe this would carry over to pets as well. Let’s face it, as cool as it would be to have more pet slots, we would never be content with any set limit. We would always reach it somehow and want more…

Having all families able to choose their trees would also be a nightmare to rebalance too. I recon some family skills would before far too powerful or obsolete when you change the fundamental tree they were based around. Say, a ferocity worm vs a ferocity wasp…okay bad example, but perhaps, the turtle’s family skill was never really meant to work round the improved cower damage reduction… I’d think that would be a significant issue to alter/correct right there.

I will say, it’s allot easier once you’re at 80. On my roster, I will never get rid of Aotona, because she’s just too cool. Sadly, I’ve yet to see another hunter on my server run with one, but I’m sure some have her. The other my Bonespider, because well, I can never get her again, and she’s another pretty one that also sadly I’ve never seen anyone else use.

I don’t feel bad about abandoning my others because I know I’m just gonna retame when I feel like it down the road. I don’t mind grinding them 5 levels, I just take them on dalies. It’s all in how you go about farming and grinding: when I tried the aoe-grinding gorilladin stuff, it got boring pretty quick. When I was kiting, or running’n'gunning, the approach to farming became more like a puzzle game than actual farming. How do you connect this mob to the next, tagging, geting the kites to die right at your feet or on your path, trying to kit 3 or 4 things at once, how many can you get before resting/bandaging, etc. etc.

It’s funny, I know many folks round here swear by Beast Mastery, and that’s perfectly fine. But whenever I run by another hunter when doing the daily circuits, they just stand there. Usually it’s BM hunters, sometimes marks or even SV too. With BM, it just seemed to me that you had to do that, like patently waiting for your pet to finish up killing the creature. If the extent of leveling a pet or farming was so rigidly stop and go like that, than I could see why people really hate leveling up their pets.

What I despair about? I really dislike Sniper Training too, or the thought behind it. I always thought of Marksmen as the Sniper, and he Survivalist as the chronic trapper and sprinter. Yet it’s very-much required talent in the tree.) The concept of making a game of granting a bonus to the hunter standing still is far from interesting to me because it removes much of the flow of how I play. Even on raids and heroics, the hurry up and wait nature of it bugs me, even though it’s a couple seconds. It might as well be a cast bar that automatically pops up whenever I stop running, it’s essentially a cast. It’s cramming that “your a castor lol cast!” crap down my throat when ideally, between the dps, heals and especially tanks, I enjoy being a humvee.

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(I need to stop posting before I go to bed. I go off on tangents too much)