Starting to run out of room...

[Monica Gems]

Initially, I was thrilled at 25 stable slots, and couldn't imagine wanting more.

Initially, I was thrilled with all the pretty new rares and had no idea WHY I'd keep any non rares over the rares.

Well... how do you abandon your first pet? How do you abandon a pet you solo'd a hard dungeon/raid for? How do you abandon a pet you can't get anymore? I have 8 (EIGHT!!) Spirit Beasts, and culling anyone to make room for utility pets is never something we want to do. I am not ungrateful, or even trying to complain, but with every new batch of pets, 25 looks smaller and smaller.

I don't want infinity billion slots, but for every 2 pets they release, perhaps we can get one extra slot; this new patch with 10 pets would have given us an additional 5 slots, for example, and when we thought there were only 8 pets, we'd have gotten 4 slots.

Does this seem like a realistic suggestion we may eventually see? Maybe? Or can anyone expand on/improve this idea of getting more slots, but at a controlled rate?

[Shade]

You can try asking, but you never really know what Blizz might do.

Take a good hard look at your pets and see if you never use them? I had every spirit beast in the game, and I've whittled it down some, getting rid of Ghostcrawled-as I never used him-and Gondria, as I have her on my first hunter alt. My Articus will likely be the next to go on my main (he is also on my alt) if I need to make room for him again. I didn't need all the SB in the game, though it was fun getting them.

So if your stables are feeling too crowded, take a look at what you have mutliples of within a family and ask yourself, do you really ever use both (or all?) If so then keep, if not, then think about giving them up. You can always write down their name, level and the time and date that you abandon them, so you can ask a GM to get them restored if you ever regret the action.

Also, if you cannot part with something, think about making another hunter? I only planned on making one, but it is so addictive, I've got my main hunter plus three hunter alts now, lol.

[Worba]

I feel your pain, but... no. This kind of thing consumes server resources and those are already stretched thin enough that it became worthwhile for them to remove our keyrings.

We've been given so many improvements over the years - most of which I agreed with, but 25 slots was more than generous; we went for years and years with a mere fraction of that and still loved our class every bit as much as we do now.

I'm happy to no longer have to tame "throwaway pets" to learn new pet spell ranks, or bother with pet food, or pet EXP, but I think we've now reached a pretty good equilibrium, and I don't mind making a few hard choices.

[Monica Gems]

I dumped 2 of the SBs after making this and I'm still trying to figure out if I can live without some the buffs/debuffs I'm excluding; no core hound, no raptor... we do have 2 other hunters in our guild.

[CrystalKitten]

I agree with everything Worba said. I've been using the resources argument elsewhere, but people don't seem to really believe it.

My problem right now isn't stable slots.. but deciding what I want to put in them! Maybe I'll just leave them as is, and find something I like later if my guild wants a certain buff if/when we start our casual raiding. Currently have about 10/11 spots free... so should be good if new cool stuff is released

I do agree that 25 spots is more than enough. I remember back in original when we only had... what... 3 total? When they gave us 5 it was a HUGE deal... heh. if they did add more, I think it should ONLY be if they add several more families, with unique abilities.

[Loffter]

I'm happy to no longer have to tame "throwaway pets" to learn new pet spell ranks, or bother with pet food, or pet EXP, but I think we've now reached a pretty good equilibrium, and I don't mind making a few hard choices.

oh dear sweet zombie jesus. I remember when that was a thing. Oh that was so annoying.. 5 stable slots, and you had to keep one open for throw away pets so you could teach your regular pets their new ability ranks.

[Miyon]

I think 25 slots is more than enough. True enough, my stables were filled up until now, but I have let go off 5 pets on my main that I never used, and never will use. I can only remember a few of them. Otherwise, I have starting to spread the pets out on different hunters. I have all spirit beasts, 2 of which are on an alt, so I am considering abandoning them on my main. Except one of them is Loque, my first spirit beast, that gave me the sickest npcscan rush ever.

[Akyo]

unlimited room would always have been sexy but im very pleased with what we have, seeing as we once only had 3 slots and one had to be left free to teach new skills. I have many pets in my stable that i dont really use. And i tend to keep some of em just cause i find em to be pretty...
If its a normal or relativy easy to get rare i (NORMALY) have no big issues letting it "out to play for a longer period".
However pets that require help (raid groups)to tame, i tend to hang on to even though i dont use em..cause they was a bother to get.
If you find yourself out of room you could (like mentioned above) release some you have several off, never really used or just have lost the "feel" for. You can always hunt em down again and retame if you should regret.

[MajorThor]

I feel ya on all that brother. I'm using half of my stable-slots for Spirit Beats by themselves, let alone any other species. 25 just isn't enough.

[Splaticus]

I think what Blizzard will say to the question of more stable slots is that even though we want to collect them all, we should choose the one or a few out of a set of pets that we will love the most. There's only 3 specs and some of the animals have overlapping abilities, 25 slots should be more than enough, however I will lose my mind if they release any more pets I love because my stables are complete with rare and non-rare pets I love to pieces.

[GormanGhaste]

I've stuck with my initial plan of not having more than one of each family. It makes me really think about it before I tame a pet in the first place. And yet, I do change pets over time without much distress.

[Kurasu]

I'm happy to no longer have to tame "throwaway pets" to learn new pet spell ranks, or bother with pet food, or pet EXP, but I think we've now reached a pretty good equilibrium, and I don't mind making a few hard choices.

oh dear sweet zombie jesus. I remember when that was a thing. Oh that was so annoying.. 5 stable slots, and you had to keep one open for throw away pets so you could teach your regular pets their new ability ranks.

Try it when you only had 3 slots total. *twitch* The dark ages...

[GormanGhaste]

Try it when you only had 3 slots total. *twitch* The dark ages...

Yes, I remember leveling with just a high damage pet and a high armor pet. Then, at 70 (I was a BC baby), after learning the highest level of all pet skills, I rewarded myself with a 'vanity' hunter pet for the third slot--Sporebat! I would bring Chanterelle out for running guildie alts through low level dungeons.

[Morven]

They didn't remove the keyring for server resources. They removed it because it consumed UI space and was a game mechanic they'd stopped using on new content. Not much since BC has required keys.

[Monica Gems]

I think what Blizzard will say to the question of more stable slots is that even though we want to collect them all, we should choose the one or a few out of a set of pets that we will love the most. There's only 3 specs and some of the animals have overlapping abilities, 25 slots should be more than enough, however I will lose my mind if they release any more pets I love because my stables are complete with rare and non-rare pets I love to pieces.

This was what I ws getting at. We got 10 new pets in one patch. That's fantastic, and EXTREMELY nice of them, they even made the tames fun! But these 10 plus the rares already in Cata plus the friends we made in Northrend plus the pets that are sure to come later on... see where that's going? That's ignoring BC and Vanilla pets.

Unlimited space is NOT something I want to see, but a controlled number based on how many pets released seemed reasonable; there's more space for the new additions, but not all of them. Maybe even 1 slot per 3 pets would work, just something to ease the head-desking when trying to decide who you do and don't want.

[vanquished14]

Honestly, I wouldn't mind if we had more pet space--but I don't really think it is needed.

Though my stables are full at the moment, I have 6 spirit beasts, a corehound (Chromaggus), and a devilsaur (King Krush) I'll never use (I'm not a fan of BM). On top of that, I have the wolf w/ a sword in its head, the flaming boar, the oil hawk, and the ghostform wolf I'll likely never use (but who can get rid of a special buff pet?). In addition I have both Sambas and Skarr (why two cats?), Solix, Skitterflame, and Deth'tilac (why three spiders?), and Olm + Madexx (I know disarm is useful for PvP but I always PvP w/ spider).

I guess what I am trying to say is it is likely that people with full stables (like me) have them filled because they have surplus vanity or trophy pets. Having a system where Blizzard had to increase our pet slots whenever they released new pets would make them more hesitant to release new pets in my opinion.

[Monica Gems]

Maybe that would be for the better; we all love seeing new pets released until we realise we don't have any room. Blizz wouldn't feel obligated to throw us new pets and give us more room all the time, and others won't whine that hunters get all the attention.

[Araela]

I hear you on this. I was very excited to get getting 25 slots - not having to pick and choose.. but then.. I was having to pick and choose! Haha. I have had some hunters go off on me for getting rid of Arcturis and Gondria (though I actually just had my Arcturis restored the other day because I missed him). I have had others demand to know why I have some "non-rares" in my stables. Truth be told, only a few of my pets are not rares or unique skins (example, Spot from Theramore, or Grunter who is a rare but not a unique skin). I miss some of the other pets I recently let go in favor of keeping the spirit beasts I do have-- I have one slot open for Magria who I have been hunting but have had no luck with. I would love it if there was a way to use my BM pets in a non BM spec but I know that will never happen. plus, then you'll get the hunters who go BM to tame a pet, then go back to MM/Surv and gloat about having a pet with an exotic ability. Perhaps if you used that pet in a non-BM spec you wouldn't have access to the exotic ability? I don't know, but I'd love to be able to use Skoll as Surv.

Sigh.

[Worba]

They didn't remove the keyring for server resources. They removed it because it consumed UI space and was a game mechanic they'd stopped using on new content. Not much since BC has required keys.

It was for both reasons, actually, with server resources being the first given;

In today’s Azeroth, keys don’t really serve much of a purpose except to take up physical storage space from the game (which could be used for other awesome stuff), and visual interface space from you.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2548839953