if ppl can remeber when back it the days rare pets got hidden stats it would be really nice to have them back so every not using just same lame cats
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Umm not a good idea, this is not Blizzard North , this is Activision im sure they will create some pet that can kill wailling caverns alone 
Best pet = OWL , can one shot Nefarian with star surge from Orgrimmar.
Yeah, I remember that. Some rare pets were immune to fear, some had great fire resistance, etc. It was nice. There is a lot of room for pets to improve. It always feels like they never finished pets in vanilla. A cat, for example, has everything, and a spider just bite. WTF. It would be great to look at them again.
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Pets need a lot of love, tweaking and fixing so that more families can be used. Right not most of them have no niche because they’re missing abilities or their scaling is bad. Scorpids after the change were meant to deal good damage with 5 stacks of the poison yet they barely scale.
Unless something’s done, the same families will be used again for DPS: cats, wind serpents, raptors and maybe owls.
In regards to the topic, special beasts like Lupos were changed because they sadly warp the game around themselves. Back in the day, it wasn’t that known or relevant but allowing Lupos to keep his shadow damage attacks would mean every hunter would run with it and cause trouble. Same goes for Snarler’s huge resistances or the frostwolves extremely high speed.
Still, it would be cool if pet families had some unique features to them so that they were more varied and competitive.
I’ve provided feedback before about hunter pets, in case it interests you: Not Another Hunter Pet Post - #7 by Mattilda-firemaw
if you want rare pets to have special capabilities then you should go back to WOTLK. Classic never had this and will never have this.
But WOTLK is still classic, and rare pets have the same abilities as common pets there, and these special capabilities were originally in vanilla but were removed during the game. And there are hundreds of changes and new things in SOD anyway. What are you talking about? You make no sense.
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Every pet species should have a unique passive and a unique active ability that makes them desirable to use. However, that doesn’t mean all of them should be desirable to use in all content. Some would be better for the solo experience, some for the group content, some for pvp.
But yeah I don’t think any of them should be useless.
And rares should have a little something extra, maybe just a second passive ability that gives them a little flavour.
Beast Mastery rune:
[Your pet’s damage and health are increased by 20%, and its Focus regeneration by 50%. In addition, your pet’s Growl now also Taunts the target to attack it for 3 sec.]
I want following change:
[Your pet’s special abilities and health are increased by 20%, and its Focus regeneration by 50%. In addition, your pet’s Growl now also Taunts the target to attack it for 3 sec.]
Which means; not only attack abilities, but also support abilities get improved.
Perhaps Wolf, Bird, Turtle etc will be used more in various scenarios - instead of everyone just going with Wind Serpent or Cat…
Also, more pet racials could be added. For example, The Harvester would be an insane rare pet to tame.
Agree It can be something minor like a rare cat + 1% dodge or something; some kind of snow beast can have +25 frost res, etc. Nothing mandatory, but it would add that little spice for hunting rare pets. But every family of pets should have some unique ability. Make no sense that one has dash,stealth,bite, claw, and the other has only bite and nothing else, and even less base dmg stats.
Yea i totally agree i think would be nice to see some wierd pets can have something really cool abilities to change pet uniqueness like striders who wants use them they are just useless. But i would like more ppl habe their own choise maybe some cool ability to use some rare cases maybe so you actually can be known as good strider pet user or something i feel pets are too generic atm but they do way more dmg than the hunter which is bit wierd to me