I have my plush toy. Like you, no talents, can’t level, but mine has over 10,000 health. I cannot feed Lucian (so now I have the Angry Red Face blaring at me while I play). I still use him in kills while doing dailies, but mend pet doesn’t make Lucian happy enough to lose the angry red face. I know they changed the happiness factor so supposedly your pet will not run away, but I just don’t trust Blizz any longer. I can stable him and take him out with no changes, but have decided to keep him out with me and use him as I can

It was really nice to see Horde and Alliance working together for a change — all joined together for a common cause. How can Blizzard dismiss this. Even though we are waring factions, every now and again it is nice to not get spit on by a Horde or have angry gestures waved at me, and I’m sure Horde feel the same about the Alliance.

This “”glitch” or “exploit” as many have called it, is Blizzard’s fault. This was discovered in the PTR and Blizz didn’t do anything to correct it then, so why should we be punished for something that clearly was a mistake THEY never corrected before going live. I just don’t get it! I’m very disappointed. Yes it’s just a pet, yes it’s just a game, but Blizz always back tracks and fracks it up more than it was before. I’m really contemplating quitting altogether. My money is being spent on a company that really does not care about the community and in my opinion is turning WoW into an expensive version of Runescape….dumbed down so much that as I read somewhere “pretty soon we’ll only have to log in to level and all of our epics will be sent to us in the mail”. Sad. A really good idea going down the toilet by the company that created it.

At the moment, no. The pet is a plushtoy. No talents, can’t level, 5000 health…

I only hope Blizz changes it to a ‘normal’ pet like all the gwolves, oozes, hydrolysks etc.

I had to learn how to do new quests, how to travel through a zone as the ‘other’ faction, and how to play a character I’d not played in a long time. Did I say this was awful? No, it was wonderful. I would have loved to have gotten this pet, but the desire for it reintroduced me to my long-forgotten level 70 hunter from the faction I don’t normally play.

Still, to have gotten a werewolf as your partner in fighting? Ooh…too cool.

At times like this the paranoid side of me thinks that the REAL reason Blizz nerfed the Worgen was because so many people were leveling their hunter alts ferociously to tame it, that they were afraid we’d break the servers. I can just imagine a team of WoW developers sitting around their desk the morning after the holiday weekend going over some game related problems: “Hmm, people still waiting to get into instances. Some classes’ abilities still not working properly. Hunter population on servers increased by 50%. New Worgen skinned pet tamed, with normal hunter pet abilities. OMG THE HUNTERS ARE ALL LEVELING TO GET THE WORGEN PET. TOO MANY HUNTERS! Servers are hiccuping from the strain! We’d better get on this right quick, hotfix it NOW!”

You know, rather than nerfing the pet perhaps Blizzard should have took a harder look at the good it was doing for the hunter community. People were leveling up their hunters together, helping each other tame, and for many of them getting their dusty alts out of the closet and getting reinterested in the class again, only to get their hopes squished into the ground. All over one pet. Yes, granted this is only one pet, but…Blizzard should take this as a big hint…hunters want more pets, more variety of pets. And for most of here that come to Mania’s site, we can probably agree, 50% of our class is the pet we have. Sometimes I wonder if Blizzard just does things to the hunter class just to discourage everyone from playing it.

Nothing compares to the excitement of the hunter fionally baggin his rare elite such as Gondria and Loque.

I spend a long time getting the casts just right to tame my worgen, not mentionning the cost of changing my talent sto get th wyvern sting and back to my original talent tree.

I was so happy that I shared it with all of you. I wanted hunters to get that pleasureable experience for themselves. Many have and a few hunter friends I ehelped were so excited about the pet. They spent time levelling them, gave them the coolest names they could find.

36 hours later we all were amputated from that pleasure. Intentional or not Blizzard did release that code with the possibility of taming the worgen. Did I not tame King Krush using a low level spell removing potion I got from a forgotten ashenvale quest?

We are just using their features and we should not be “involved” in the decision process regarding improvements on existing code such as rendering a worgen untamable.

What Blizzard is really saying is that they do not intend to fully own the responsibility of their development team and blame the players for whatever “Flaw” we are taking advantage of.

The fact is, the vast majority of players affected by this decision have been hurt by it.

No matter what the circumstances are, is it healthy to bite the hand that feeds you?

If you did bite it, would you appolgize or tell its owner that they deserved it?

Are they going to delete my account if I have such an opinion?