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From GC:

At the moment, Dire Beast is on the same tier as Fervor and Thrill of the Hunt. Thrill of the Hunt has been redesigned to make Arcane or Multi-Shots free. Readiness is no longer a talent and we might try it as a core ability in some form. There is a new talent called Blink Strike with Murder of Crows and Lynx Rush. Blink Strike lets your pet teleport behind a target and cause damage on a 20 sec cooldown, somewhat like the old Warp Stalker ability. We are trying to preserve the idea of Murder of Crows in a format that is more performance friendly (as I said before, creating units is surprisingly tough on the client). Try not to make assumptions about the numbers of any of these until you get a chance to try them.

Looks like they are still trying out different things for our "pet" tier. And as for our beloved warp stalkers getting their warp back.... now it going to be,

WARPING for ALL!

Other interesting things ~

* Readiness may just become a core ability... /gasp!
* Thrill of the hunter gives free arcanes and multies (Hmmm ,sounds like it will screw with my rotation, I never did like that set bonus from firelands... /ponder)
* They are still trying to work out MOC... (I love the idea, but yet 100% sold either, a bit to glitchy for me atm)

Yay for most of it...mildly worried about adding Readiness as a core ability, I have enough buttons on my action bar damnit! It's part of the reason I took TotH, aside from making BM's rotation a bit more random and interesting.

Edit: I guess with the Mark glyph I could free up a button that way...hmm. /ponder But that might go for the 90 talent.

Spiritbinder wrote:From GC:

There is a new talent called Blink Strike with Murder of Crows and Lynx Rush. Blink Strike lets your pet teleport behind a target and cause damage on a 20 sec cooldown, somewhat like the old Warp Stalker ability.

WARPING for ALL!

OMFG! I was SO hoping that my Warp Stalker would get it's Warp skill back, but I never expected to have it back as a talent for all our pets! Just imagine using it with something big like a Core Hound or a Rhino!

This is SO awesome! /)^3^(\

Here's a link to the forum thread.

Spiritbinder wrote:or a Horn Grip

Eeeee, baseline readiness!!!!!

Baseline readiness would probably means that some of our skills won't work with it.

Some of our skills already don't work with it. That list expanded earlier during the MoP beta when Readiness became a talent rather than a marks-only ability.

Kalliope wrote:Some of our skills already don't work with it. That list expanded earlier during the MoP beta when Readiness became a talent rather than a marks-only ability.

can you list out the list of abilities that doesn't work with readiness in beta?

pop wrote:

Kalliope wrote:Some of our skills already don't work with it. That list expanded earlier during the MoP beta when Readiness became a talent rather than a marks-only ability.

can you list out the list of abilities that doesn't work with readiness in beta?

Readiness on Wowhead

Readiness
When activated, this ability immediately finishes the cooldown on all Hunter abilities with a base cooldown less than 6 minutes.

So no double stampedes.

What has me erring on the side of caution though Kali is the wording now I re-read it...

At the moment, Dire Beast is on the same tier as Fervor and Thrill of the Hunt. Thrill of the Hunt has been redesigned to make Arcane or Multi-Shots free. Readiness is no longer a talent and we might try it as a core ability in some form. There is a new talent called Blink Strike with Murder of Crows and Lynx Rush.

These "Mights'" and "Some Form" are the back door to what could be the (lack of a better description eludes me) "red headed step child" version of what we currently have.

They could quite possibly remove it resetting Bestial Wrath (which I'm preparing myself for so I don't get to disappointed)
Or it quite possibly be the same but just not reset a new lower cooldowned Stampede?
But still, there is an escape clause in that paragraph for them to do anything they like with it, we just don't know what yet.

I'm also both relieved and bit bit worried about such fairly large tier restructuring (though yes, it is beta, yada yada yada) I'm not sure of any other class that they are struggling with in regards to their talents. And not so much just adjusting, but still coming up with attempts at new talents.

I'm relieved that they know what we have/had, was not working all that well or gelled with us as a class, and they are trying to fix it...
But a little worried that they really just don't know what to give us or how to fix some of the issues, and may still be throwing things at us to see what works up until the last minute.

I just hope it's all done and dusted to eloquent sufficiency upon release and not leaving us feeling not quite complete or a bit patchy for the next expansion. Anyways, yes yes, I know, I'm a worry wart

*nods to SB* Yup, the question was regarding the current form, not the upcoming baseline version.

Worrying is natural; Readiness is an ability that requires careful balancing!

You mean my beloved warpstalker, Hiro will be able to "warp" again?! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Spiritbinder wrote:I'm also both relieved and bit bit worried about such fairly large tier restructuring (though yes, it is beta, yada yada yada) I'm not sure of any other class that they are struggling with in regards to their talents. And not so much just adjusting, but still coming up with attempts at new talents.

I don't read all of what GC is posting, but I know there's at least the Rogues that have a major problem with Preparation being so good that no one will take Shadowstep nor Burst of Speed. GC mentioned that they're trying to figure out what to do with it, and most likely they would completely remove Preparation from the game and adjust the cooldowns in accordance. It's possible they would do the same with Readiness.