Poll: Should Blizz lock a pet tame behind raiding or pvp?
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Poll: Should Blizz lock a pet tame behind raiding or pvp?
So would you guys be for a pet being locked behind raiding or PVP? What I mean by that is a pet that is only accessible by those who actively and consistently raid/pvp current content (this isn't counting old xpac bosses becoming tameable later). Perhaps you have to kill a certain boss X times to access the pet. Regardless of the "how" they do it, do you like the idea?
For raiding, do you think it should be accessible to LFR and higher, normal, heroic, mythic? PvP could be casual BG, RBG, arena?
My personal opinion is absolutely not. I can see the appeal of having a special tameable pet adorned with blades and skulls available to dedicated PVPers, but I think its a slippery slope. Lalathin is acceptable to me since it is looking like we can just use someones lockout, but I'm not a fan of hunter pets being locked this way. Mounts, battle pets, transmog, recipes, they can have all that. I say keep hunter pets out of it.
What say you? Love to hear the community's thoughts on it since our little group loves our pets (so much so we sometimes squabble like cats and dogs )
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I love it when Blizzard implements special pets / challenge tames, like Gara or a fel-bound wolf from Draenor or tracking challenges. Fenryr is already a bit of a stretch since he is more of a gear check than an actual challenge. Locking special tames behind instanced content turns a personal hunter challenge into a team effort. While not necessarily a bad thing in a massively multiplayer game, judging by the WoW forums people hate forced socialisation (the complaints about Class Order Hall campaign/professions requiring dungeons are still appearing now and then). I know I do. Yes, one can say "It is not forced, you can deal without that one pet, it's not like it locks you out of the end game", but that's not how people feel.
Locking something behind PvP is its own special can of worms. I, personally, love PvP. Or, at least, I loved it before Legion. Would I like to see Kor'kron wolves or Sentinel sabers as pets? Hell, yes. But I also know that vast majority of players does not like PvP, and passionately hates to deal with it (example: Dalaran's underbelly). Were Blizzard to bring arena or RBGs or, especially, rating into this, it would result in a mess.
TL;DR: Locking tames behind something is fine, as long as that "something" can be approached by people individually and on their terms (solo challenge, item, reputation, tracking, trick tame, etc.)
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I agree with this statement and pretty much for this reason alone, I am also casting my vote for "No".Shelassa wrote:TL;DR: Locking tames behind something is fine, as long as that "something" can be approached by people individually and on their terms (solo challenge, item, reputation, tracking, trick tame, etc.)
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Seconded. Same reason, same vote.Niabi wrote:I agree with this statement and pretty much for this reason alone, I am also casting my vote for "No".Shelassa wrote:TL;DR: Locking tames behind something is fine, as long as that "something" can be approached by people individually and on their terms (solo challenge, item, reputation, tracking, trick tame, etc.)
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As long as it becomes available to anyone solo with time, I have no issues with pets set up like this.
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Re: Poll: Should Blizz lock a pet tame behind raiding or pv
I'm not really happy with tames being in current raids. But that's just me.
And no, never behind pvp imo
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I'm fine with a pet coincidentally being in a raid, as long as it's LFR+ (you can hang out after raid ends to do it) and doesn't require more than yourself to get to it. For example, a tracking challenge that at most would require invisibility pots, or depending on the species, want you to spec surv for camouflage.
Same with pvp. Don't gate pets behind prestige or titles. You could make it a challenge inside a battleground. A tracking tame or boso you'd have to kite to 50% (to make sure whoever gets aggro keeps aggro) before they can tame.... course in that case there is always the chance of griefing but Blizz had shown they don't care much about that.
TLDR: keep it individualized. Add them in if you must. But don't gate them behind titles, prestige or difficulty. And don't make it so you need another person's, or raids, assistance.
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Chromaggus, Chimaeron, and Fenryr (not raid, but close enough considering difficulty) are good examples of PvE content tames. One you tame right away, one you have to not kill it by accident, and the other requires you to use your knowledge of playing Beast Mastery to reach. Fenryr is the perfect example of a challenge tame in that regard, while Chromaggus is a pretty weak one. Chimaeron is an okay example in that the challenge comes from us being too strong, and having to hold back. The mechanical scorpions are also good examples, because you need to collect items to literally craft it. That was pretty genius, as well as fun. It was a good reason to go back to that god awful raid, especially since I got my scorpion mount while farming for scorpion parts. More stuff like Fenryr and the Mechanical Scorpions would be great, especially if we got a glitch in every dungeon/raid instance where we could tame it without needing the challenge like Fenryr had for a short time (My hunter has terrible luck in raids, let alone getting into a pug run). The best thing about raid and dungeon tames is that you can do it at any time without spawn timer worries (Excluding Lalathin) and idiotic party members.
I hate PvP with a passion, and would be absolutely cross if I had to do it to find a pet that I would want. Gon broke my interest in collecting every Spirit Beast, since it required me (Alliance) to go to a Horde capital in HOPES that I could snag it. All it takes is one jerk to ruin the fun, and I hate that possibility. I do not want to rely on pure luck to tame things, since that isn't fun at all and reminds me of the absolute worst Hunter I ever came across who tried to steal and subsequently killed Terrorpene when I was already taming it during Cataclysm (I still remember their name, the absolute trash heap). That was almost pvp since it was a Horde player, and that was already bad enough since I didn't have the patience to get on an alt and send them a thesis on how their life is pathetic for having to steal in a video game. I do NOT want a repeat of this trash behavior, and I especially do not want to be forced to rely on random people who have no reason to even care to be friendly.
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If there was a pet in a battleground or arena, it would mean that the hunter would not be assisting their teammates while going after it—there's already enough of that in existing pvp, I think. Raiding is potentially a little different as you can enter the instance without actually technically being in raid time. I guess they could add an item to spawn a pet that you needed rating for, in much the same way that the elite pvp mog is available, but that doesn't sit very well with me either (the exclusive pvp stuff never has; mythic gear is farmable after the fact but the elite stuff isn't).
Either way, my vote is no; making old content tameable is totally fine and I like that a lot to be honest, but it should never be in current group content or require significant assistance from other players (and by the nature of the beast, PvP is always current)
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This is a big selling point for me, also. I'd love to see a "legendary" tame / special "bonding" quest along the lines of Warlock Green Fire quest chain from MoP - lore bits and then bone-grinding test of skill set... well, whatever remains of it, that is. Tracking, Tranquilizing Shot, Trapping, Scare Beast, Concussive Shot, playing aggro with Distracting Shot Play Dead / Feigh Death, interrupts, Eyes of the Beast, all that, rolled into one glorious, torturous scenario that offers only a shiny pet / some visual effect on existing pet and way to transmog into Thori'dalQuiv wrote:The whole "solo" aspect of it is what tips me over too. Hunter tames feel like it should be something the hunter does.
Ah, and kiting. Let us not forget the kiting (currently am working on Thwarting the Twins on my MM, and whoever at Blizzard decided to have MM kite is really a sadist).
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Nadda.
I don't really have any friends that play WoW. I mostly play by myself, so to gate pets behind group content would be really painful for me. I like challenge tames as much as the next hunter, but relying on group content doesn't have the same sense of personal accomplishment, and it isn't something I would ever find myself doing.
Trying to psyche myself up in order to ask someone to borrow a raid lockout for Lalathin is going to be a million times harder than soloing the mob for the fel wolf ever was.
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I'm not averse to pets with unique looks appearing in PvP areas, however. This was (perhaps still is?) the case with Ashran. It's not that hard to deal with a battle ground to tame a look. I would be against pets requiring serious devotion to/grinding of a particular niche aspect of the game to obtain.
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To be wholly honest, I DESPISE camping. I can't stand sitting in one spot for hours on end waiting for something to spawn. And you're still susceptible to the random jerks that kill your tame just for the fun of it, so I don't think PvP would change things that much. I would so much rather do BGs or a raid or whatever to obtain a pet. I've done my share of camping in my younger years, and it's just not something I can stomach anymore. Thus, I end up not getting the pets that require it. But, that's my choice. There are tons of other pets out there for me to choose from. I'm not going to die if I don't get Loque'nahak. Besides, I think I like Gon better anyway, and I got admittedly lucky on that one.
I dunno, I think I'm rambling but my point is that I don't have an issue with it as long as it's infrequent. I don't have Fenryr yet, but I know it's MY CHOICE to not main my hunter. I can eventually get it, and I'm okay with that. I don't hold it against them that it's gated behind soloing a Mythic. If I want it bad enough, I'll work for it, or wait.
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I like the towers because it allows me to get PVP marks by doing PVE content But I never thought of them using it as a way of getting more raiding/pvp participation. Thats a big scary. Can Blizzard get banned for exploiting us or is that a clever use of game design?Wain wrote:Im afraid that's a "no" from me. I'm frankly not a fan of the concept of exploiting player enthusiasm over one thing as leverage to make them populate something else that they don't really want to do. How often do they have to find new ways to try to goad players into PvP? The invention of Warden Towers makes me suspect they're quite desperate, since they can use them to claim players are supporting PvP when they're really not. They finally found a way of claiming that PvE players are doing PvP.
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I'm surprised there are no hunter pets locked behind the reputation yet. Closest being Skarr and Karkin, requiring Molten Front quests done to a certain point to be able to access their areas.
Or Jandvik Ripfangs who were locked out of tame once you did enough quests in Suramar * still salty *
Honestly, despite voting "No", I agree. If we approach Hunter pets from a position that loosely equals them to mounts or battle pets, as in, cool visual, no real advantage over something available easier, it only makes sense that there would be tames related to different types of end-game content. The details of requirements can vary from achievements to reputation to item. There is only one thing I'm very adamant about: these type of tames should not go away alike to Elite PvP sets or require high rating, PvP wise / Heroic+ Raiding while it is current (Curve / Edge achievement). Everything else is a fair game.Rhyela wrote:I voted "Yes", since I'm honestly more or less okay with it. I've played other games that have special requirements to obtain a thing (usually centered around PvP). Though I'm not a huge fan, I am one of those people that will "knuckle under" if it's something I want bad enough. There was a wolf in Guild Wars 2 that could only be obtained in a PvP instance, and I got it. There was a weapon in Destiny (my beloved Red Death) that required [x] amount of PvP kills to obtain, etc. I mean, I don't want it to be something that they do all the time for every pet, but I'm okay with the occasional gated pet so that people who do spend time in those things, or who are willing to go through something they don't particularly enjoy, can have something neat to show for it. Granted, I don't think it should necessarily be rated BGs or Mythic raids - LFR and LFBG are acceptable.