Comments on: PTR 3.3 Notes Posted

By: Palladiamors

Palladiamors — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:08:37 +0000

Doesn’t make you silly at all, Rudda. Most of the changes are good, and all of them are good for PvE. It’s just PvP that’s getting screwed. Again.

By: Rudda

Rudda — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:59:36 +0000

Being one of those “silly” hunters who think Tenacity pets are a viable alternative to tank some heroic and raid boss encounters, I see most of these changes as a good thing. Especially, giving me 4 seconds to let any of my attacks be Misdirected to my pet. Right now the initial explosion of Explosive trap eats 1 MD, the remaining explosions cause threat to the hunter. So dropping a trap and doing Volley for 4 seconds. . this will be invaluable on multi mob trash pulls. Giving the pet free AoE avoidance = good especially if it is replaced with a better dmg increasing talent. This would give the pet more threat generation. Which is really their biggest short fall atm.

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:12:13 +0000

The itemisation on those craftable mail items is almost certainly placeholder info, as it’s identical to the itemisation on the new leather gear.

By: Kitairra

Kitairra — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 06:27:12 +0000

@ Rowdypotter–

Any priest who doesn’t heal a pet is a fail priest. I have 9 of them on my /ignore list,and I’m sure there will be more in the future. lol

Intimadation(sp?) is a funny ability…I’ve missed sooo many of them,I hardly use it now. This will help bring it back to use against those nasty casters. At least for me.

@ Aftathott–

Moar info,please! I heard about the new LW recipes with Nature Resistance,but this would be awesome! Thank you! (As long as they don’t drop in a raid,I’ll be happy!)

Kitairra

By: Mitsuhide

Mitsuhide — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:49:28 +0000

“Pets – Avoidance: Now reduces the damage your pet takes from area-of-effect damage by 30/60/90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.”

Way to gimp us even more, Blizzard. Why not just make the pets invincible to PvE content but die with one hit from PvP content?

By: Gimlion

Gimlion — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:20:19 +0000

NO! no focus for meh! EVER! plz and thx blizz >:/

By: Ethgrì

Ethgrì — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:06:59 +0000

@ Aftathott;
This would be and awesome hidden throw in. I might actually play my hunter on the PTR if that happens.

By: Aftathott

Aftathott — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:15:36 +0000

Just out of curiousity, did anyone look at the new leatherworking recipes they added in with 3.3 on the test center, notice that INT is missing from all of the mail gear……either shamans are getting some loving, or the change to focus from mana is coming for hunters sooner then we relize…

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:42:40 +0000

See my post earlier – balance druids have treants.

By: Rowdypotter

Rowdypotter — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:26:27 +0000

off-topic……. since when do druids have pets???

Druids

* Pets
o Avoidance (passive): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.

As for the hunter changes… the “nerf” to pet pvp survivability blows. Didn’t blizzard say that they’d allow for pets to survive longer in pvp overall? and then they do this? grrr Pet survivability in PVE, especially in raids are almost up to the hunter keeping an eye out to heal their pet from time to time because some healers sure as heck don’t heal pets and think they’re a waste of mana. Avoidance would help and work wonders on 5-man dungeons…. a full straight raid fight like those found in Naxx and Ulduar won’t cut it, they’ll still be dead early on due to their smaller health pool (even when buffed and not specced as BM).