Comments on: Hunter Class Preview: Candy & Questions

By: Karin

Karin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:42:06 +0000

I am so glad that hunters will no longer have a need for ammunition for their guns/bows/crossbows. Not only will this save some gold, but it will also give us hunters a nice way to not ever be scared to death when our ammo runs out. Even if that loses a bit of business with engineers, engineers can still make guns for us, and I think that has always made bigger business than selling bullets/arrows in the AH anyway. Ever wonder when or if those arrows and bullets wasting space in the guild bank will ever be used?

I’m also happy we get a chance to have a pet right from the very beginning rather than brave through the first nine levels while we beg for mercy in wanting a pet so badly. I’ll even be happy if our “race pets” will be a pet or a pet with a unique skin color that’s found nowhere else, and better yet if we can keep it even after level 10. I am kind of disappointed that our melee abilities will disappear, but since weapon skill will be gone also, I guess that will work out after all. I am always concerned in making sure my skills are always to their maximum before gaining another level and that is time consuming.

By: Boudica

Boudica — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:05:27 +0000

I’m hoping to get into the beta……lets face it they need ppl to test out the game on both good specced and bad specced PC’s (mine is the second :D) so if I do get inot the beta I’ll post whatever info I find.

As for the preview, I’m not getting too excited just yet. Have a feeling they’re gonna do the same thing they always do with us – promise us the things we want then take them away again without giving a specific reason why (ghost wolf anyone? ammo removal a few patches ago?)

Time to kick back, relax and wait till we get a few more specifics……..oh and squeal at the forums for more info on when beta starts!

By: Kristy

Kristy — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:44:57 +0000

That’s cool that we wont be using ammo any more. Sadly I’m guessing they’re just gonna change pets current abilities not ADD more abilities to them. But I do like that. I doubt they’re gonna “do anything” to pets’ Talent Trees. And I doubt they’re gonna “do anything” to Exotics. That’s kinda the “bread and butter” for Beast Mastery Hunters. Duh. Exotics are gonna do more damage than normal pets!

By: Widgerber

Widgerber — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:04:28 +0000

Umm, is it just me or does the new pet/stable system sound a lot like pokemon? Here’s hoping there will be enough stable slots to catch ‘em all ;)

By: Charlatan

Charlatan — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 10:33:04 +0000

It’s kinda funny to me as a die hard Wolf fan, who slogged all thru TBC raiding with my Wolf/Raptor or Bird at my side because i flat out refused to have a cat and all the grief i got then, to now hear ppl moaning because Wolves are everywhere and want to make FH a baseline ability.

I dunno as Rikaku said – unless all pets do the same damage there will ALWAYS be “the one pet for raiding” – I think Blizz know this and are trying to work on it and i hope they’ll get it sorted.

By: Chanteloup

Chanteloup — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:52:35 +0000

@Seryth I don’t think there are wolves in Durotar but orc’s have a strong wolf connection with the clan and the mounts and blah.

Secretly I hope that they let us chose from three pets, one from each group:

Tenacity: Turtle
Ferocity: Raptor
Cunning: Bulbasaur

#Pokemon4life

By: Seryth

Seryth — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:22:16 +0000

well i can´t remember any wolves in durotar?

would say orc and scorpion or boar, because my guess is that you get one of those pets which are avaible in your starting area

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:56:33 +0000

Uh, “point of view”, not “point of few”.

By: Nimizar

Nimizar — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:55:02 +0000

/point to classic WoW opening cinematic. If dwarves don’t start with a bear, Blizzard are doing it wrong. You could make the case for boars or wolves due to their presence in the starting area though, but I hope the cinematic will win out.

That cinematic is pretty much the reason my two level 80 toons are a male dwarven hunter and a female nightelf druid (more accurately, the cinematic is the reason those toons were created in the first place – its the gameplay of the two classes that got me to level them both to 80).

Chanteloup’s list looks pretty good to me. If we assume no two races start with the same pets, then it narrows things down a bit too.

For classes with a racial mount that is also a pet family, I think it makes sense to pair them up that way, so:

Night Elf and Cat
Troll and Raptor
Orc and Wolf

Similarly for races and their associated flying mounts for flight paths:
Undead and Bat
Blood Elf and Dragonhawk

For the remaining races, it is a matter of looking at what is around in their starting areas (both the 1-5 starting area and the rest of the zone that contains the starting area) and considering what is most likely (e.g. I doubt Blizzard would ever use spiders as a default pet, because they wouldn’t want to scare off arachnophobes)

To me, that suggests:
Human and Boar (bear and wolf already taken by other races)
Draenei and Ravager (Moths in the newbie area, Ravagers, Crabs, Cats and Spiders on Azuremyst, of which, ravagers are the most alien and hence most appropriate for the space goats)
Tauren and Carrion Bird (yes, Tallstrider is an option as well, they just strike me as an unlikely choice for a default pet, since they’re likely to be a love-it-or-hate-it prospect, while carrion birds should be more neutral from the point of few of a new player).

Goblins and worgen are anybody’s guess at this stage, but given the goblins’ island origins, a crab strikes me as a fairly likely option. For worgen, I’m going to riff off a Ladyhawke vibe and predict Birds of Prey.

My complete list:

Dwarf and Bear
Draenei and Ravager
Human and Boar
Night Elf and Cat
Worgen and Bird of Prey

Blood Elf and Dragonhawk
Goblin and Crab
Orc and Wolf
Tauren and Carrion Bird
Troll and Raptor

By: Chanteloup

Chanteloup — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:50:21 +0000

I LOVE the starter Pet idea! (it’s like Pokemon! What? Shut up nerd!)
and I immediately began assigning pet partners:

Dwarves with Boars. Boars are in their starting area, I think they look handsome together. *OR* Dwarves with Bears seems plausible too. (see Dun Morogh cub) Actually a lot of Races have pre-assigned pets:

Tauren and Tallstridgers (duh)
Orcs and either Wolves or Scorpions
Trolls and Raptors.
Blood Elves and Dragon Hawks.
Undead and Diseased anything. or Bats. or diseased bats.
Draeneai and Ravagers.
Night Elves and…Owls? Nightsabers?
Goblins and Parrots!
Worgen and…what?? Boars?
Humans and Pikachu. (It could happen*)

*it will never happen.

OH! it is fun to guess. I just hope, hope, hope they let us keep them. It would be awful if they gave us like a cub or a young what have you and then when it’s time to venture out into the world it had to stay behind, but never fear adventurer you just tamed this new beast that will never, ever replace your first pet.