However, my view is that the exotic pets talent should be lowered to tier 3/4 in BM and a replacement spirit beast talent for the 51 pointer. By doing this both MM and SV could choose to have the exotic pets or just normal pets with the extra talent points and BM’s could still have the cool looking shiney pets.

If this were to be implemented though blizzard in my view would need to place the spirit beasts in their resembling pet families so they have all the pet family talents aswell as keeping the existing spirit strike attack (but hopefully buffed up a little, maybe even making it an AoE :P).

Or heres another idea i had:- the spirit beast talent allows the hunter to tame a permanent 2nd pet (the spirit beast). However (don’t flame yet!!), the spirit beast is passive/inactive in that it doesn’t fight alongside the hunters regular beast in melee. It follows the hunter attacking his/her regular pets target using the spirit strike from distance. The spirit beast does have more utility however and also a 3min CD 30sec duration attack/DPS ability. The utility abilities being a sentinel/guard use for the hunter so that when the hunter is attacked by a mob or enemy player the spirit beast automatically attacks them with a 2sec duration stun followed by a 2sec duration 50% movement reduction, cannot happen more than once ever 30secs. The 2nd utility ability being a cleanse/heal on the hunter useable every 2mins restoring 30% health. The DPS ability i mentioned earlier on the 3min CD would be triggered by the hunter, lets name it spirit empowerment – the spirit beast merges with (i cnt decide whether it should be the hunter or regular pet) causing them to inflict 10% extra damage for the duration.

what if in cat to open up the BM tree hunters could use 2 pets simultaniously (with minor nerfs to damage so it’s not totaly OP) cuz 4 extra TP just doesn’t cut it for the end-rank talent

more specifically to the SB, spirit strike NEEDS a buff. i see bites from my wolf in my mm spec that do more damage than Spirit Strike does over its enttire duration with bestial wraith on.

now to the points mania raises, spirit beasts are their own family, a god shouldn’t be described as something as meager as ‘another kitty cat”.

if pos spirit beasts prowl should be replaced with something more befitting their status. Spirit beasts don’t sneak around, they walk the twisting nether and strike their foe with something that makes me think of shoop da whoop every time i see it. for all purposes it would look like prowl but not really be prowl. speaking of prowl it could use a buff too. i see hordies targetting my stealthed pet while they’re still on their mount charging at me and it makes the talent useless.

aanyhoo, i’m gonna end todays rant at here before my head explodes.

A 51 point talent should be for something more significant than a unique skin. Currently wolves beat Devilsaurs in dps (my testing) and regular cats beat SB’s(again, from my tests). My point is that a 51 talent to tame exotics shouldn’t just get you a new skin and middle of the road damage; there needs to be some sort of bonus, increased dps, new tank ability or something… anything.

Oh, Hunters need more stable slots!!

@Naturae Silithuds are cute in their own way. You don’t think that little slight dance isn’t at least cute? Or it wagging it’s little behind like a doggie?
But seriously..Devilsaurs..in my experience Devilsaurs are one of the best pets you can use from a whole list of pets that can deal ALOT of pet damage to a single target. But that’s just because they don’t have a DoT or rend ability that can damage one target while then going after another. In my personal opinion Spirit Beasts would be more fitting for PvP, mainly for the Moonfire-like-ness.

But to be honest, when people asked Blizzard to give more pet family models to the Spirit Beast tree..I was not expecting them not changing the abilities at all. You know how Bite, Claw, and Smack are still the same ability, just with a different name to make it more realistic to the Beast? Same thing with Cats and Spirit Beasts. The only difference I can tell between Rake and SS is that SS is a distant attack. Atleast give it maybe another extra bonus not just because you worked your butt off to find it and it should be worth it, but because every pet family has a differentn ability to benefit it in battle.

Understand this. You may say “Well, Raptor’s Rend ability is like a Cat’s rake” Not only that, but it also has a chance to buff up the Raptor as well, while with Silithuds and Spiders, Venom Wep Spray actually deals damage to the target while also keeping it in place Spiders just shoot a web that keeps it in place. Not like I’m saying Pin from a Crab doesn’t do the same. But the Spider and the Crab are in different Pet Trees, so I’m fine with at least something HELPFUL being different if I spot two family abilities having the same effect.

With SSs and Cats being the same Tree, and having the same ability that basicly is the same when you look at what it does, I mean sure SS can be used from a distance..but I really only like ranged pet Abilities because they look cool to me. The only real useful ranged Pet Ability I can think of would be the Webs from Silithuds and Spiders again, because they hold the target in place. But when every single pet is a Melee for a Hunter, how is distant abilities other than those two really usefull besides getting the first strike when you’d probably shoot at it first? Besides, another non-big difference is that it deals Arcane Damage. In PvP, who stacks resistance? The only time I’d switch a SB is when I’m facing something that resists Arcane. Even that is sort of a pain.

*Am I the only one? My boyfriend thinks I’m insane. I hate all bugs in real life, but silthids are socute. :3