Pretty much this. I've been stalking this thread and running around taming some of these beauties. And I really am truly grateful to Acherontia for all of her work. And to some, I maybe morally suspect, but I don't find anything wrong with this style of taming. We all have done clever things to tame certain animals. I personally have been using a macro that uses Ancient Hysteria to speed up my tame time for things like Arcturis and Chromaggus. Though this seems to be broken now. I tried it with a burning boar, and my cast time was longer. With King Krush I used the BW and Abandon Script to tame him even though my successful tame was sans buff (this was pre-4.0). I have macros that tell my Pally how close she is to block capping. I have macros that whisper me and the party member when I give them a Hand spell. And when I pet hunt I have to delete my cache folder to find a beast that I have seen as a pet. All of these are considered clever uses of game mechanics.Ollof wrote:If doing anything that cannot be done “under normal circumstances” is an exploit then I would like to get the following “exploits” removed from the game.
Kara Chains macro: Under normal circumstances most people can’t target the chains fast enough.
Vash Toss macro: Under normal circumstances you cannot open your bag and toss the core fast enough.
Bite Macro: Without perfect timing you cannot maximize your DPS and then bite someone.
Stopcast Macros: No amount of timing can help you stop cast.
Macros that activate abilities that are not on your UI: You need to open your spell book like everyone that does not use a macro.
NPC scanners: Roll a class that can track or visually track the pets just like other people that don’t use addons.
“Only Sith deal in absolutes.”
Or we can just point out the pets that need to be made untameable or given a timed buff so that what NEEDS to be fixed can be.
Let's also consider how long we've been able to tame the Oil-stained Wolf. And one could consider THAT an exploit. We had to time the Tame Beast channel to end exactly at the same time the beast would despawn otherwise we'd get a normal wolf or nothing. One could say that these wolves were never intended to be tamed like this, but some clever hunter figured it out. Bringing us to the present, Acherontia is the new clever hunter. She used things in the game to tame these pets. Originally she had glitched her first Ghost Wolf. It was a mere accident.
I personally don't see the harm in these buffs with the exception of the damage-dealing ones. And I hope that only those get "fixed." These buffs are cosmetic, and we are already neutered with the fact that they cannot die. They are realistically just for show much like what happened to other unintended pets when Blizz decided to let people keep them but not be able to feed them. And anyone can do this. It's not something a privileged few can obtain. You run a macro and profit.
I guess I've not understood the negative feedback concerning this method. It just doesn't make much sense to me. But here's to Acherontia and that our Lurker reads the about all of us thankful and responsible hunters. We'd like to keep our cosmetic pets. Get rid of the Damage-Dealing ones, but let us keep these beauties as a reward and homage to Acherontia.
And a final note, I think I'd call this an exploit, but under a different definition.
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Awesome crab, Griff!
