So I went and got a bear, and Thok (OMG is he glorious!). I speced the bear to tenacity and after a bit changed over to the raven that I had tamed awhile ago-and found he was already in tenacity spec. Odd.
I switch him to ferocity and run around a bit-but them my friend and I get into trouble so I switch back to my bear-to find his pet action bar is messed up and he is now in ferocity spec.
It looks like now all pets are whatever spec you pick and you cannot have a pet on standby in a different spec? Meaning you cannot have one tenacity on hand for solo'ing and the others all ferocity like before?
Is this intentional? I've been watching the forums and beta notes for a good while now and saw nothing about this. I really, really hope it is a bug because if not it really breaks the soloing ability of hunters to me. I like being able to dismiss a ferocity pet when I am in a fight that is more than I can handle and yank out my tanking pet to keep things off of me.
Not sure if anyone caught this in the patch notes-but I just saw it a second ago and had to log in to check.Patch 7.0.3 Hotfixes - August 8
Hunter pets now retain their selected specialization when dismissed and summoned.
Now you can assign different specs to your pets one more!
I just tried it and my old tank pets can now be tanks again without messing up my DPS pets.
Glory, glory, this is the best thing-I was seriously in mourning for how badly hunter pets had been broken in this expansion.
CELEBRATE!