Weekly reminder that hunter pets are still in need of love and tweaking (see messages above for more information):
-
Make Furious Howl scale and fix the bugs associated with it
-
Improve scaling on Screech so that bats are competitive DPS-wise
-
Fix Scorpid Poison. It’s barely scaling if at all
-
Give all pets dash/dive
-
Make bite better in comparison to focus dumps: use all focus for higher damage a la Ferocius Bite or reduce its CD in some way
-
Give families with little to nothing more love: spiders, hyenas, tallstriders, crabs, crocolisks, etc.
-
Make wyverns scorpids or give them their own family with poison/claw/bite/dive/anything else you might consider. Let us tame any wyvern with the rod so that we can get recolors and higher level ones
-
Give us more tameables and make them their own discoveries: chimeras and thunder lizard for wind serpents/own family, darkhounds for wolves, gryphons and hippogryphs for owls/own family, threshers and sharks!, devilsaurs, hydras (poison, triple bite…), etc (see more examples in my previous posts above)
-
Let us befriend dragonkin as a new family: faerie dragons, whelps, drakes
-
Give us 5-10 more stable slots
-
Give us cool runes but not passives. It’s fine to have an extra passive or two but hunter and BM in particular should have a rotation. We want to enhance and interact with the pet(s), not auto shoot passively. For instance, if we get a 2nd pet or dire beast, make them engaging
-
Rework the KC rune. It should be an active ability in the rotation and not a cooldown that barely makes any sense anymore
-
Review Cobra Strikes. It seems to be a bit buggy in the way it provides stacks. Additionally, make it proc from any crit (reduce charges gained per crit to 1 if needed) so that melee hunters can benefit, or at least from melee/ranged auto as well. Can also rework it to be more interesting than just another passive
-
New runes/passives/abilities should not all come from retail/future expansions. Create new things for SoD
I’m probably forgetting things but do check my previous posts on the matter. Make it happen Blizz! Make discovering new tameables (either families or special individual pets - recolors or otherwise) a core aspect of the class.
Players, are there any other ideas you’d like implemented in regards to hunter pets?