The solution, I think, is to figure out exactly what they want Cunning pets to be. Given the various pet family skills, as well as their use in PvP, it would seem that the most obvious role for them would be crowd control. Instead of giving them these odd talents that restore mana or absorb damage for a friendly target, give them abilities that help them control and enemy target.

First off, give them Charge like the other two trees. It’s a very reliable ability that’s useful in most situations, and there’s really no reason why they shouldn’t have it. Next, either reduce the cooldown on their family skills to more reasonable levels (there are very few abilities that deserve a cooldown of more than 40 seconds) and/or give Cunning pets a talent that does the same thing. The cooldowns should not be reduced too much, however, or Beast Mastery hunters will be running around with stuns on 20 second cooldowns. Put a talent deep in the tree that gives the pet an ability that cuts the target’s movement speed.

Just my 2 copper.

/facedesk

I have a lv 76 Warlock and never noticed this. I fail.

@ Palla

That’s exactly what I meant,Palla..lol…too many times when I’ve PvP’ed (which isn’t often,thank Elune! ),I’ve seen Mimzi get two-shotted by (insert bad language+
class here) when she’s just GETTING to her target,never mind about actually attacking it…bah! The less I think about PvP right now,the better my head feels..lol

Maybe I’m doing it wrong,though…Mimzi is such a huge target (Jorumonger Worm,or however you spell it..lol ),it’s not that hard seeing this thing undulating towards you..and like I said,I don’t PvP that much,and I really dont want to get a PvP-centric pet just for those “once in a blue moon” moments. “shrug”

Kitairra

Sorry about that…lol..my father was an old Air Force man and used that expression all the time.I’ve heard Glass Cannon as well..same thing,isn’t it?
Poor little things are going to wind up the same…/cast Revive Pet.

Off topic…now that patch 3.2 is live,and every hunter going after Skoll,the new Spirit Beast,maybe now I xan finally get the laser kitty! Woot!

And guess who I’ll have to abandon to make room in my stable? Yup…Paper/Glass Cannon…/sigh…Ah well,’tis the life we chose when we became hunters.

Kitairra

Thats what Blink does.

I think that change means that the pet will take reduced damage based on magic resistance, but I honestly have no idea for sure. Maybe it was being dealt as physical damage before and being reduced by a large margin? Maybe it was just a coding issue?

As my warlock, beast masters are the only hunters that usually give me trouble, and even then it isn’t to hard to run away while my felguard happily om noms their face. Otherwise you ignore the pet and eat the hunter as fast as you can, while trying to get into melee range. Or if you are feeling particularly nasty, Dot, DoT, DoT, demonic circle out of range. Hunter begins dying from DoT damage and a demon eating their face, and you can just run back in to reapply your DoTs. In fact wait thirty seconds and you can just teleport away again, while Fel armor restores what health you DO lose. Nasty, cheesy, and unfortunately effective. Especially if you put your circle some place high up and not easy to reach.

That reminds me! Why is it that hunters talent for spirit bonds to have it restore a measly 2% health every TEN seconds, while warlocks get an armor spell later that restores 2% to 3% talented health every FIVE seconds, that also increases spellpower by varying ranks plus 30% spirit BASELINE?

[warriors/mages/rogues are classes I never really leveled]

Tbh the only casters I have fun with are well warlocks, cause half the time they try to fear me, and it’s like LOL BIG RED PET. They try to dot me, and I just fd and pewpew them. But sometimes some just come along and I just get .. wtfpwned.

I am also now confused. CP from MMO as seems ptr crap is going live soon.

‘Roar of Sacrifice: Damage transferred to pet is now considered Nature damage.’

Um what?

Yeah I remember in a BG when I was trying to earn some marks on my pally for a BWraptor, a twink DK gloated about how he got a 5k crit and oneshot a poor nelf hunter with a melee swing .-.

And ah well that makes sense. I mean I’ve seen my pets wtfpwned sometimes by retrilols :/

Tbh I’m starting to realize, our problems isn’t just pets, it’s the fact that well pvp is blatantly unbalanced, unfair, and well geared to those who have instants and melee abilities- or better abilites to escape. I mean mages can frost nova and blamo, we have to be SV for frost/explosive trap to work like that [as our only AoE's], rogues can vanish. Death Knights can heal themselves and oh my god it’s horrible, just oh god, get it nearly dead then it kills the rogue with you and all a sudden it’s healed and coming right for your oom face COMPLETELY IGNORING PET.

[still greatfull the rogue actually did come to my hunter's aid tho]

They either need to balance caster, and hunter classes, with melee classes more, or just strip us of everything and give us a choice, you can wear a loin cloth and a stick and be a damage dealer, or you just wear a loin cloth, spamming heals. I mean when you go into a pvp situation.