In amongst all the worgen madness today, Blizzard pushed another Patch 3.2 build to the Public Test Realms (PTR). This new build has a few changes that may be interesting to hunters.

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[edit] As of Wednesday evening, Petopia is back up. The site is currently rather slow because we’re still working out some tweaks with our server, but hopefully we’ll have that smoothed out soon.

[edit #2] And most of the slowness should now be eliminated thanks to our wonderful server admin Jon. (Thanks, Jon!)

If you see any problems, here or with Petopia, please let me know. Thank you again, everyone, for your patience!

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[Update]

Zarhym has just posted this about Blizzard’s feelings on the worgen pet:

The worgen should not technically belong to any of the pet families and was therefore removed. This means the pet no longer has access to pet talents or abilities. Whether or not similar circumstances with hunter pets in the past have occurred isn’t really relevant. Given the nature of the creature that was tamed in this case, we feel it should not belong to any of the eligible pet families from which a hunter can choose his or her combat companion.

There are several other responses from Zarhym in this thread. The most important so far:

It may yet still be removed altogether. I don’t have a final decision on that to share with you.

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Brajana at Mend Pet is celebrating her 1 year anniversary and the 250th post of Mend Pet in the best possible way — with a “Need More Stable Slots!” SPCA Charity Drive & Giveaway,

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We have an initial response from Blizzard about the fate of the worgen pet. Zarhym posted the following just a bit ago:

It is not intended that Garwal can be tamed while in worgen form and will be addressed via a hotfix in the near future. When we have determined how to handle situations where hunters have already tamed Garwal we will let you know.

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