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Mania's Arcania
Flotsam from too many sites
What i would like to see happen!!
1. A new feign death one that keeps a hunter off target longer and your pet gets dismissed ( I think better odds? )but pet comes back when ya get up a different Feign death
2. Disengage fix the bugs give us longer distance and a remove an impairing affect and no damage when we land if we are not going over a cliff or bridge!!
3. Deterance if we cant attack just bubble us up A straight ahead brief block dont work
4. bring back the real wing clip like its meant to be
5. Traps need major overhauls or more trap shots? and strenghten up the snakes.
6. AoE stun shot would be nice??
7. Exotic pets beef them up to where they was. Dont make a BM work hard to get that exotic just to nerf it hey you guys didnt give them alot of powerful shots we need our pets with extra punch ( remember when chimeras were wicked i do I had Numoroc they nerf and I released )
8 . BM powershot
9. No Deadzones for range or more close range shots besides scatter and make wyvern harder to dispell and silence shot last more then 2 sec
10. Pet skins more variety would be sweet but rather have the attacks back like the original stampede etc.. ( if a shaman can use thunderstorm and a druid use typhoon with same affect why take stampede?
( as for the comment about shadowmeld well it isnt that great of a spell they have taken away so much from it over time its sad I like using it to eat or drink without getting targeted now you cant even do that and last i used it a 2 min cool down? WTH? might have changed on cooldown but not what it was meant for!!)
Snowtiger, I see you weren’t around years ago. It suppose it doesn’t matter anymore, since Aimed Shot is instant, but used to shadowmeld wouldn’t break until after aimed shot fired. Course that was to much, so they nerfed it in the face. Now shadowmeld is interesting, at least. I just don’t find as much use for it as I used to. Before I’d use it to set up some really nice traps. I was still doing that every now and then, but things had gotten so much more fast paced that it almost seemed a waste. Course on the other hand, night elves now have a variation on feign death from level 1, at least.
Ah yes the old 6 sec aim shot the good old days when things where more on a level playing field!!
Oh yes one mre i forgot from my list lets boost up tose sting shots and more power to the concussion shot
boost up those sting shots grr typos
Eh, now granted most of my gear before Ulduar was bis and i’ve managed since to snag some Ulduar gear, but I find there isn’t that huge of difference b/t BM, MM, and Survival. I am duel specc’d MM/BM because I simply despise the new black arrow trap/shot mechanic. At most there is a 400 dps difference for me, but my guild appreciates the 10% to ap or the 3% to damage buffs. That, and the raid simply does not need more than one survival hunter.
As to fixes for the class? Variety in pets, and survivability in pvp. ‘Nuff said. ;p
Well folks I dont know how many of you have heard of the new mount news for patch 3.2 but the thread is chaotic
Black arrow should have just plain out been baseline, and I am still pissed about that.
Speaking of Typhoon, had a friend and knew of another drood who managed to stop a TB raid for a bit by blowing half the ally raid off TB with the knockback.
The Knockback could have been nerfed on pets as in an MGT run Aria’s friend used typhoon and blew the mob ring offa Erebus. But then who takes Rhinos to a instance? And why did they get a +Bleed, I rarely ever group up, and MM have a bleed effect but it’s more than 20 points into the tree.
Were Blizzard smoking something when they changed Rhino’s stampede? Why not give it a Bleed DoT, possibly stacks 2/3 times? ._.
b/c that would make sense Ryai… and if there’s anything i’ve learned about blizzard making pet changes is: they hardly ever make sense….
Blizzard KNOW’S knockback effects don’t work. They tried this stuff before, way back in the alpha and I think a bit into the beta for when the games first release. Though to be perfectly honest, if they removed it from rhino’s, they should have just removed it from everyone.
And don’t effin’ talk to me about the NEW stampede. A bleed damage increase. For a hunter pet. Hunter’s have exactly ONE bleed effect for themselves, and that is in the marksman tree, and that is so far down that you can’t HAVE
((Continued, somehow I managed to send early)) exotics and piercing shots in the same build! And GOD ALMIGHTY, why would I want to increase the effectiveness of other peoples bleeds in a raid with a tenacity pet? Even in a five man instance, Mangle does it better. Now if Hunters DID have some kind of bleed, and if stampede actually did damage again ((It was bugged last time I checked it, but that was 3.1)) then it might be worth something, but for the moment, poor rhino’s are just steaming piles of exotic crud.
So if anyone can remember back in the Wrath beta, Hunters had an ability called bear trap. Bear trap was a bleed DoT root. Now if for those of you who followed beta, Blizzard then made freezing trap not immediately break on damage. That was awesome, but Blizzard stated that it made bear trap obsolete, so they got rid of it. Then not to long into Wrath, Blizzard removed the new freezing trap, reverting it to it’s old and current form, stating that a problem had occured where pet’s kept on attacking the frozen target. SO instead of FIXING IT, they just give us the old one back. More proof of both Blizzards laziness and their inability to at least think up a good lie.
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Blizzard it’s called ‘hunter has pet on passive and calls pet to side’
Or even just calls pet to side. Or re-directs the target. Their excuse made no sense what so ever, even then.
Well don’t you remember Scare beast? They were gonna make it instant? And people COMPLAINED? And some idiot druid was all oh we’d get chain feared! And it’s like holy hell what, Scare Beast has what a 30sec cd on it? Howl of Terror is just as strong, can be made instant cast and has about the same cd :/
[then ofc there's banish, I can chain banish, fear targets. No one complains about that]
Lately I’ve barely bothered to play Ryai at all, not just cause of this.
I’m getting tired of being owned by everything constantly.
Well ya I roll a hunter and I am lvl 72 to me my pet is a cat forget which one and I try to pvp in Northrend and I get raped to no extent maybe because I just got used to playing my hunter again after leaving wow for 3 months but seriously we need better pet HP and armor my pet gets raped way before I do
I hear ya Ryai but my hunter is a good gold farmer but as wanting to pvp only occasionally and only for certain pieces of gear.. Scare beast should be instant cast. Lately seems that hunters are the new squishy’s !! have seen clothies or casters with more hp and defenses then alot of hunters!!!! Hell with the enchants trinkets defense bubbles blinks teleports and potions and they said hunters had most of the advantages.. And dont forget fears and polymorphs psychic screams!! yet we cant have a decent melee buff or decent trap a good functioning disengage. But all hunters opponents have one plan of attack run straight to hunter rape and repeat.
And our little friends the rogue stealth stun lock kill laugh at you and vanish. Yes our Pets need to be to be strengthen up and our defensives need much improvements which could happen then we will get another 18 nerfs Blizzard needs to work on the balance of the game and figure out our class..
I HAVE SOLUTION TO ALL PVP PROBLEMS.
No matter WHAT class you roll.
When you enter a BG, you can not use special talents. You are naked. You can not eat/drink, but can bandage. You are given all given a stick, a rock and a shield. Melee, range and defensive abilities respectively.
Booyah. Everything fixed.
Has Blizzard ever considered letting Blacksmiths make armor or weapons for pets??? An armored riding bear has armor, at least it “looks” like it has armor! How about adding steel pet claws, or some sort of bracers that buffs spell ability for spirit beasts, or maybe some sort of chest armor. Maybe you would have to go through a quest or add it to the BM tree! The Battle Wolf from Hellfire has an armor look, maybe only make those beast that “look” like they have armor or are considered an “elite” pet be able to use armor, idk but I think it would be very cool!
I also like the ability for your pet to be out while riding on your “riding” mount!
Better buff food for pets, how come they can’t get the same buffs as you do when eating?
My 2 cents!
I still like the idea of each different type of hunter pet getting their own glyphs, with some glyph slots of their own. and the glyphs could boost their special abilities, or one of the abilities that they get from their talent tree.
I think it would be cool if hunters could get a pet that has an aoe fear, or some other interesting form of cc.
Just one question:
when will they fix the broken pet UI?!
Skills keep aktivating at random instances, don’t keep their stat – broken from the first day.
I just read the new PTR 3.2 patch notes. What is potentially exciting is that BG’s will award experience now. This may mean we can level up some of our pets while doing Battle Grounds. I sure hope so.
Hunter melee is inexcusably awful. Hunters by their very design should be competent at melee. Nearly every issue they’ve ever had is a direct result of their inability to function in melee. I’d like to know if there are any plans to address this, as GC pointed out once a while back.
i was just reading up on the growl fact and how high threat a pet can produce
is it possible that a pet could tank in an instance of its own lvl or even 1 more higher than its lvl? or would the hunter always have more threat than the pet?