Idea for BM hunters in Cataclysm

[Saturo]

Blizzards reason for not making exotics better than normal pets is because they don't want to pressure us into just taming an exotic. They feel that the option to tame more pets trough BM would turn into "tame a devilsaur! Nau!".

As for making Spirit Beasts better, I have to say that that sounds really stupid. Every hunter would be camping for one, and I expect griefing to get really horrible with an option like this.

[Ranshiin]

In the old forums I had a few ideas for new pet talents that only a BM hunter would be able to access with our Beast Mastery talent, sadly I don't have a copy but I believe I came up with something like the following for each tree...

Ferocity
Call The Pack
1.5 sec cast
3 min CD (1 min 48 sec CD)
"Your pet calls forth two of its pack mates to aid it, attacking the same targets your pet attacks for 20 sec."

Savagery
Passive
"Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your pet's special abilities by 20%."

Cunning
Hunt Down
Instant
3 min CD (1 min 48 sec)
"Orders your pet to hunt down enemies, greatly increasing your pet's stealth detection for 25 seconds. While this ability is active your pet will automatically attack the first stealthed creature it finds, ending the effect. In addition that creature will not be able to stealth or turn invisible for 1 minute while your pet has the scent."

Tenacity
Primal Roar
Instant
20 focus
20 sec CD (12 sec CD)
"Your pet roars with primal fury, reducing the chance enemies within 10 yards will hit with melee attacks by 5% for 6 sec. This ability also causes threat."

Faithful Guardian
Passive
"While your pet is active 10% of all threat you generate is transferred to your pet, in addition when your pet dodges a melee attack it will instantly gain 15 focus."

[Saturo]

Those spells sound nice, but I think the cunnig one is a bit OP. It would severely cripple rogues. I have a rogue, so this is somewhat evil to me.

[Ranshiin]

Those spells sound nice, but I think the cunnig one is a bit OP. It would severely cripple rogues. I have a rogue, so this is somewhat evil to me.

Your cloak/vanish combo would drop the 'scent tracking' debuff, and since the stealth detection ends once the pet attacks a stealthed target you're pretty free to move right back in hehe, it seems OP but in practice it'd be little more then an annoyance against a lone hunter. Assuming also that they fix vanish in Cat.

[lurker2891]

I always thought that giving two pets would be an awesome idea.

The way i would see it working is that you would have a "main hand" pet and an "oft hand" pet
Your main hand pet would sit on your right hand side and act like a regular pet now.
The oft hand pet would sit on your left side, but this pet would not get any buffs from your gear so its just the straight pet. Likewise when you use BW or intimadate only your main hand pet would use the ability.

Basically the oft hand pet would just be a DPS increase but it would look cool

[Danielfboone]

Blizzards reason for not making exotics better than normal pets is because they don't want to pressure us into just taming an exotic. They feel that the option to tame more pets trough BM would turn into "tame a devilsaur! Nau!".

As for making Spirit Beasts better, I have to say that that sounds really stupid. Every hunter would be camping for one, and I expect griefing to get really horrible with an option like this.

I don't think either of those would be true if they made all of the exotics, including the Spirit Beasts, equal. I never said to make them the best of all. It's just one more option they could use to decrease the gap between BM and the other specs and it would be easy to implement. The other easy one, as I have said before, would be to buff Steady Shot deep in the BM talent tree in the same way they already have buffed Arcane. The best way would be to add another special shot but that would take more work on their part.

[bloodysam]

wow i would sooooo switch over to BM have The Beast from BRS and when and hopefully the 1st spirit Beast!