If you could add or change a pet family...

[RakuRaku]

What would you, and why?

Here's my idea.

Family: Snail
Tree: Tenacity
Dump: Shell Bonk
Special: Virulent Mucus

Virulent Mucus
45 Sec CD
15 Sec Durration
The snail begins to excrete and leave a trail of toxic mucus. Enemies who pass over it take nature damage ever 2 seconds until they step off. The target of the snail's attacks also recieves damage. (Debuff is applied to those who step on the trail or are being attacked). The trail and effect both fade after 15 seconds.

The attack would provide an intersting use for pve and pvp, imo. XD It wouldn't be too strong, and would scale with hunter's AP. The trail would have a maximum length of 20 yards. (To prevent possibly exploits)


I hope this is the right area to post this. >.<

[Undra]

The problem right now is that the tenacity pets have most of the debuff abilities, Rhinos got mangle, for instance. Now if you're in a raid that is somehow without both a feral druid or a warrior, who brings a tanking pet to a raid?

Tanking pets that let dps do more damage is counter productive, they lose aggro faster. Tanking pets need the hard hitting skills, and ferocity pets need to be the buffers.

As far as new pets go I'm of the opinion that tame beast should do jsut that, tame any beast. Blizz puts a Beast tag on it, Bam 20 seconds later a hunter should be feeding it.

[Tulune]

I would change serpents from cunning to ferocity. Poison Spit is a very hard hitting ability, it belongs with a ferocity pet. If they decide to let us choose our pets trees come Cataclysm, my serpent is becoming ferocious in a heartbeat.

[Saturo]

I would change windserpents to Ferocity. They were DPS pets before, having them as cunning doesn't make sense.

[Azunara]

The following will be an Epic Hunter quest. It starts with a drop that comes from any of the old world outdoor raid dragons, Ony, Maly, any raid dragon. Only hunters can see it.

[Unhatched Clutch Egg]
"It's an egg. You better keep it safe, now that you've killed its parent."


The item provides a quest where you essentially raise the egg. You gather various reagents for food, nesting materials, etc. When it hatches, you gain a whelpling pet.

Family: Whelpling
Tree: Ferocity
Ability: Flames
(Think dragonhawk ability, except stronger.)

It doesn't end, however. Because as it gets older, you do more quests issued by it, (Think Ravasaur daily.) and you'll end up with a dragon mount. It'll be a version of the adult dragons, not drake. It'll be red, blue, bronze, or black (Your choice.)

And there's hunter's class mount/pet. Obviously, you can choose not to do the quests, and it will be a permanent whelp pet.

[Saturo]

After my... Odd. Mistake in the other thread, I'll repost it here. xD

ANOTHER dragonmount? Not too keen on it, TBH. A warrior can be kind and caring too, that's not a quality limited to hunters. Neat idea, I'm just not too keen on having a dragonmount for our class mount. Maybe a chimera? With a new model, of course!

[Azunara]

To repeat roughly what I said,

You do have a point. Dragons are overdone. I just liked the concept of raising our mount/pet, because that's what hunters do. We have pets we care about for a reason. So...what if we were to do owl mounts?

Or even a phoenix/gryphon/wyvern. They're less common with the huge dragon surge that was WotLK, (Or, Wrath of the Dragon Mount. >:D). Eagles, owls, vultures, or a MOTH mount. Yes please.

[Silvershade]

Uhm.... Hmmm.... Uhhh..... Getting an idea.....
..... .......... Got it!

Family: Darkhound
Tree: Ferocity (Exotic)
Focus dump: Bite
Special: Dark howl

1 min cooldown
15 sec duration
Dark howl: Causes [rank] damage Increces damage and attack speed done by the Darkhound and it's master by 5%.

.... A bit over powered but.... Meh I think they are demons so it doesn't really matter... Should be tamable though *mumbles*....

[kamoodle5]

I'd say to separate the eagles, falcons, and parrots off of Bird of Prey, let the owls have their pet family with the owl name again, and have the other three types of birds go with their own families. It is confusing to watch a pet emote for bird of prey say something like "<name> hoots." on something other than an owl.

When I editted the pet emotes for bird of prey just recently on the editor, I made sure it never mentioned the word 'hoot' and the emotes relate to all of them simultaneously.

[Mindsprocket]

I would change windserpents to Ferocity. They were DPS pets before, having them as cunning doesn't make sense.

I agree, especially because Lightning Breath is a pure damage ability without any nifty trick. At least with other cunning pets you exchange damage for utility, but with windserpents you just lose damage and gain nothing for it. Same with dragonhawks.

In addition, I would make silithids tenacity pets. I've always seen them as really tough creatures and the corresponding mounts are called battle tanks afterall, so it never made sense to me that they were grouped with the super-squishies. -.-

I guess what we learn from this thread is that no-one likes the cunning tree