Hunter Tidbits from the 2/26 Twitter BlizzChat
Hunter Tidbits from the 2/26 Twitter BlizzChat
Q. The Hunter class has many odd and situational abilities such as Mongoose Bite and Aspect of the Beast - are there any plans for changes to these types of abilities?
A. Mongoose Bite is most likely a goner. Let us weep. We think Aspect of the Beast could have some cool uses for Beastmaster hunters.
Q. Are hunters likely to see more stable slots for their pets in the future? With the current variety of pets, the amount they have right now seems too small.
A. Arm-waving here, but a model I would love to see is dramatically expanded slots (so you can store all those Spirit Beasts) but have a smaller number of "active" pets, like 3. You could summon an active pet from anywhere in the world, when outside of combat. You would swap a pet from active to the stable at the Stable Masters.
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Turning us into Pokemon Trainers. -cough-Mania wrote:Q. Are hunters likely to see more stable slots for their pets in the future? With the current variety of pets, the amount they have right now seems too small.
A. Arm-waving here, but a model I would love to see is dramatically expanded slots (so you can store all those Spirit Beasts) but have a smaller number of "active" pets, like 3. You could summon an active pet from anywhere in the world, when outside of combat. You would swap a pet from active to the stable at the Stable Masters.
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I kind of like this idea; three actives we can access from anywhere, then a whole lot more we can choose from to put into those slots. I would definitely retame a few pets. I think they should keep the active slots at five, just cause we're used to them, but I'd take that nerf in exchange for the overall buff.
Kinda bummed about mongoose bite; I hope they're giving us something shinier for melee so we're not totally stuck. Raptor Strike does NOT cut it.
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By going to a "has tamed" and "currently using" model, it means the "has tamed" set of pets can just be stored as an ID for the kind of pet it is, the pet's name and perhaps its current level. The full set of pet info (current XP within the level, talent points, anything else they store pre-calculated rather than derived on the fly) would only be held in the database for the active pets.
From a UI point of view, consider if the current stable view was changed to have 3 kinds of slot:
Current pet: As now
Active pets: 2 slots (similar to our original two and current four stable slots)
Other pets: Unlimited (or very large) number of slots similar to mounts and non-combat pets
At the stable master you could switch your current and active pets, and switch either with "other" pets.
With Call Stabled Pet, you could only switch your current and active pets - you wouldn't have access to all of your other pets without going back to town and finding a stable master.
The 3 active slots (current pet + 2 others) would allow for access to pets for 3 different roles (DPS, PvP, pet tanking), while the unlimited other pets would allow for pets to be retained for sentimental or pokemon reasons.
Decent idea, and by going from 5 active pets back to only 3, they would give themselves a fair bit of room to store inactive pets without increasing hunter character profile size at all.
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So I'd probably have my devilsaur, worm and gorilla for BM, and my wolf, gorilla and something else for SV.
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I WANTED TO BE A MONGOOSEMania wrote:Mongoose Bite is most likely a goner.
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Wow, didn't really think of that when i read the post, but that's very possible as well. I think I'd REALLY like this new idea, even if you do only get 3 active slots instead of five. Granted, it won't stop me from making hunter alts... b/c I'm an Alt-hunter/nature-ish/petaholicNimizar wrote:One other point - I'd expect them to make the "active pet" selection change with dual spec if they went through with this. So you would actually have up to 6 active pets - 3 for each spec.
So I'd probably have my devilsaur, worm and gorilla for BM, and my wolf, gorilla and something else for SV.
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Or maybe he was hoping to get some feedback from the community about this idea that he favors.Nimizar wrote:Keep in mind that GC did say he was "arm waving" about the stable slot idea. So it's something they're thinking about, but it may not be all that high on the development priority list.
Hopefully a wave of positive feedback would push the rest of the development team to agree.
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Although more stable slots means I have less excuse to have more than one hunter... but I'll get over that little detail.
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But like the "old days" (taming for pet skills) you'll have to "capture" (tame) each of the model/textures styles once before you can choose it....
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My excuse for having more than one hunter is that I want to level something through the revamped Azeroth and rolling another hunter means I also get to see what it is like levelling a hunter with the new resource system.Suzi wrote:Although more stable slots means I have less excuse to have more than one hunter... but I'll get over that little detail.