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Cpatrol wrote:Is anyone else worried that warlock pets might outdps our pets in cataclysm? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I hear that felguards are getting even more special attacks added to their arsenal, including a few buffs for their already existing moves, whereas hunter pets seem to be switching places with lock pets as the team buff pets. Atm it looks to me like if a felguard and a beastmasters pet dueled, the felguard would win, (unless our gear manages to make our pets better than lock pets) which makes me somewhat sad seeing as having the best minions has been one of the best things about being a hunter to me.

Does anyone else have any concerns or info on the matter?

Saturo wrote:Warlock pets are easily beating hunter pets in Cata beta, currently.

Saturo wrote:I think they're about equal, but I'm not in the beta, and even if I was, I wouldn't know. But from what I've heard, a Felguard can easily beat any hunter pet, BM or not.

Palladiamorsdeus wrote:It's kind of odd at the moment. Hunter pets just became EXTREMELY reliant on focus and on focus staying as high as possible, which requires a lot of management. Done well, BM pet's are beating Demonologies minions. BUT demonology requires a lot less effort to work with. Felguards did just pick up two abilities that have to be clicked, but evenwithout axe toss or felstorm, the felguard is still really beefy. With them...yeah. It's a weird state of flux right now, but Felguards probably have the edge just because they rely on mana and don't require Wild Hunt or a similar ability to boost their damage.

Worba wrote:

Saturo wrote:I think they're about equal, but I'm not in the beta, and even if I was, I wouldn't know. But from what I've heard, a Felguard can easily beat any hunter pet, BM or not.

If we're just talking pet vs pet that doesn't bother me; just wanted to be sure the overall result was balanced.

Saturo wrote:

Worba wrote:

Saturo wrote:I think they're about equal, but I'm not in the beta, and even if I was, I wouldn't know. But from what I've heard, a Felguard can easily beat any hunter pet, BM or not.

If we're just talking pet vs pet that doesn't bother me; just wanted to be sure the overall result was balanced.

Well, as Palladia said, if neither hunter nor lock gets to cast any spells, the felguard wins.

Sarayana wrote:Well I think that last point is important. If lock pets are more powerful, I don't really care... as long as we even out, seeing as we're both pure dps classes.

Rikaku wrote:From my experience on beta, yeah as classes we're equal. However, the lock's pet have our pets beat one-on-one. It's fair enough to me, though.

After all, Locks are still clothies~

Feath3r wrote:

Rikaku wrote:From my experience on beta, yeah as classes we're equal. However, the lock's pet have our pets beat one-on-one. It's fair enough to me, though.

After all, Locks are still clothies~

With the ability to fear us until their DoTs kill us if they don't get bored of toying with us and just use their stronger attacks while we run screaming in fear.

Clothies aren't the pushovers some people think they are, especially if they play smart. I can win 2v1 against Death Knights as my Shadow Priest and I've seen Warlocks drop Paladins like they were 5 levels lower just by positioning out of sight on high ground (or hiding in water as an SPriest since the shadows of the water hide SPriests perfectly, minus nameplates of course) and using DoTs only since they don't have tracers when used.