Patch 3.2 has finally made it to the live realms! Of course, the live realms aren’t up yet as I type this, but they will be soon enough I imagine.
In the meantime, read on for the hunter patch notes (or head to the official site for the entirety of the patch notes) and feel free to comment your brains out while I work on getting Petopia updated.
Classes: General
- All pets now receive 40% of their master’s resilience and 100% of their master’s spell penetration. In addition, if a player is at their appropriate spell hit chance or hit chance maximum, their pet will be at the maximum for spell hit chance, hit chance, and expertise. If they are below the maximum, their pet will be proportionately below those maximums.
Classes: Hunters
- Aspect of the Cheetah: Can now be learned at level 16.
- Deterrence: This ability now allows the hunter to parry spells and attacks from behind as well as in front. Now has a new visual spell effect.
- The time that traps will exist in the world after being put down has been reduced to 30 seconds, down from 1 minute.
- Frost Trap: Will no longer “fizzle” on targets immune to snare effects, however Lock and Load will not succeed when using Frost Trap if the target is immune to snare effects.
- Snake Trap: The Mind-numbing Poison effect has been reduced to a 30% increase in casting time, down from 50% to match similar effects.
- Traps now have separate 30-second cooldown categories: Fire (Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Black Arrow), Frost (Freezing Trap, Frost Trap) and Nature (Snake Trap). A hunter can have one trap of each category placed at one time.
- Beast Mastery
- Catlike Reflexes now also reduces the cooldown of your Kill Command ability by 10/20/30 seconds.
- Survival
- Entrapment: This talent no longer works with Immolation Trap or Explosive Trap.
- Lock and Load: Now has a 22-second cooldown. The Lock and Load effect cannot be obtained on targets immune to snare effects when Frost Trap is used.
- Pets
- Roar of Sacrifice: Redesigned. This ability can now be used on any friendly target to make that target immune to critical strikes, but the hunter pet takes 20% of all damage taken by that friendly target. Cooldown is now 1 minute, up from 30 seconds.
Bug Fixes: Hunters
- All ranks of Sonic Blast now properly have an 80 Focus cost.
- Black Arrow Ranks 5 and 6 training costs have been lowered significantly.
- Furious Howl: Ranks 1-5 will no longer give slightly more attack power than is listed in their tooltips.
- Lock and Load: The tooltip for this talent has been updated to indicate that it also works with Explosive Trap.
- Roar of Sacrifice: Damage transferred to pet is now considered Nature damage.
- The tooltip for Improved Tracking has been slightly re-written to indicate that it only works on the hunter, and works on melee damage as well.
- T.N.T. (Rank 3): Now indicates that the talent works with Black Arrow.
And there’s plenty of other fascinating changes in this patch also! So check out the full patch notesfor the whole story. Oh, and let me know what important pet-oriented details I missed!
Yea, cower bug is still in existence. It randomly turns itself on and lother skills randomly change itself off.
:/ damn
I still remember when I was lucky enough to be in a group that knew about the cower bug/believed me about it. Cause Growl was on when it should have been off and my pet pulled trash aurg.
Why is blizzard not fixing this?
Edit: Oh cause no one else has reported it, Mania, atm the er ‘Necrotic Webspinner’ I think, didn’t really glance at the mob’s name when I beast lored/tamed it, ARE now tameable, they stayed tameable in the patching, well mean they became tameable. Because I snagged one [thought Skoll would have spawned after restart and dumped my owl/bird Dx]
Anyways yeah as was reported before, they ARE tameable.
I still think they’re creepy as hell tho.
A friend of mine pointed out to me today that the Silvermane Stalkers in the Hinterlands seemed to be using a new skin, and no longer stealth. I went to check it out, and indeed — the Silvermane Stalkers now no longer stalk, and are using the black worg skin, seemingly since 3.2!
O_o woah, are there any other changes to pet’s we haven’t noticed cause of er well we all being lv 80 in nothrend [or unable to get on]
Cause mean now that I think about it I still don’t remember seeing Skoll mentioned in the ptr notes, so if he was left unmentioned, and the silvermane stalkers [like the frostsabers that became striped]…
ptr or patch notes* I can not focus when my cat is chewing my ankle