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Clayford13 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:27 am It's truly sad. I have never felt so restricted on what pet I can use.

worgpower wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:36 am

Clayford13 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:27 am It's truly sad. I have never felt so restricted on what pet I can use.

I feel the same way, I have to restrict to a scalehide for a overall better pet for tanking, and since my favorite pets are cunning, Blazeseeker and my aquilon, it disappoints me I can’t use them for anything else besides low level content, eyes of the beast scouting, and PvP, I hope Blizz will bring back pet spec switching, but SV does have a healing mastery, but I’m still disappointed about the changes made in BFA

WerebearGuy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:05 pm It's a shame how Tenacity is pretty much just as useless as Cunning. The only real value it has that keeps it from being trash like Cunning is that you have an extra defensive. If you need that extra defense, you either A) need to stop doing stupid things, B) need better healers, or C) you're doing mythic raiding and you actually DO need the defensive. Cunning has no place anywhere, and Tenacity only provides a gitgud button, yet Ferocity sits at the conference table of correct pet choices while Clefthooves sit in the CEO chair. The obvious fixes would be either pet spec swapping or removal of these traits in general. On one hand, everyone would go Ferocity for leech and heroism/bloodlust, which would just make the other two pointless, while the other option would make all three equally pointless.

Basically, Ferocity is in such a good position that literally any other choice that could be made is a design flaw. Pet specs need an overhaul, though there's currently plenty of other problems that need addressing before we get our pets fixed. Really though, just use whatever you want unless you need to be the one to bring heroism/bloodlust to your group. If your pet is dying, just pull less or take it a bit slower.

Maria wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:59 pm I loved the pet talent tree we once had.
I would love to not have to run around with a clefthoof. But I would hate to loose the healing bonus the clefthoof has. A talent tree and free choice of pet spec would be really nice

WerebearGuy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:39 pm The problem with talent trees is that there WILL be a cookie cutter choice. Blizzard hasn't done talent trees right in so long, and I have zero faith that they could do pet talents right when they can't even make class talents work. Having multiple options doesn't matter when specific ones are correct and everything else is niche/useless/wrong. The old trees were good for their time, but they mostly amounted to silly stuff like a few extra percent damage or health, with maybe a few significant gains. Gradual talent trees with many branching paths and more than six points is absolutely worth having if they all end up actually mattering, but that's the issue; the stuff you don't take will never matter. That's just how modern Blizzard talents are, unfortunately. There may be some room for flexibility, like how Hunters can go Pathfinding, Camo, and Trailblazer (Camo for life), but the talents that matter always boil down to Correct > Situational > WHAT ARE YOU DOING. I don't play every class and spec, so maybe I'm wrong on one or two of them, but for the ten classes I do play, that just ends up being the case. There's no choice in the talents except for maybe one or two that have zero effect on your performance, and that's exactly what will happen with pets. I don't want pets to suck like most classes do.

I'm sure absolutely nobody will agree with me here, but I'd be fully game for pets having no talents or abilities. Leave them as vanity, much like our transmog. There will always be bad talents, but there will never be bad vanity. Well, unless it has ugly colors like a pink elekk that I still can't figure out a way to tame, but still.