I think people are getting a bit worked up over something i don't see as bad..you all seem to not notice that what spec your pet is DOES NOT mater for your own personal DPS now, they just have different utility. Outside of Spirit Beast not having a Bloodlust or something similar SPECIFICALLY for the exotic pets, this opens up the fact of actually making it actually MORE open to what pet you bring along to raid/pvp/quest/rp/Whatever. I'll admit, locking in pets to a certain spec may be annoying, but unless you are pushing Mythics/Keystones/etc, what does it mater you have to use a Ferocity pet versus you now-Tenacity pet, etc? "oh no, now a shaman/mage/leather workers drums are gonna need to be used if i don't use a Ferocity pet". People, the ONLY complaint you should make is how your LOCKED into a pet-specialization, but otherwise complaining about DPS is NOT an issue.
@ JaxOh1 They aren't considering taking away lust, they are planning on removing battle rez. Huge difference as there is no alternative and for those of us that do mythic plus and raid that's make or break. As much as I like aesthetics I care a lot more about what my pet can provide. I wouldn't care if it looked like a pile of dog waste as long as it can provide a significant amount of my dps and brez.
@Shanaraen No....they airn't removing BRezs. look at Crane, Quilan, etc..and if you want them that much, especially since you don't care for ascetics, you still have them for mythics/etc....all this change means is you dont have a DPS-specific pet..in fact, this HELPS your mythic group, since now you can use your utility B-rez pet w/o gimping your DPS, and while annoying, now all you have to do is Dismiss pet, Hero, resummon if you need brez, etc
They are removing brez. See blue post and further discussion here... https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20762076019#post-1https://www.wowhead.com/news=281848/blizzard-on-hunter-pet-specialization-changes-in-battle-for-azeroth#commentsExpanding access to Bloodlust, and the removal of Battle Res from petsIn Legion, all Hunters have access to Bloodlust and Battle Res, but they only exist among a handful of families, which leads to very narrow options. To that end, Bloodlust will be available on roughly a third of the tamable pet families rather than just two. In a world where we are proliferating abilities to many families, our first inclination was to add Battle Res to a separate third of those families. After seeing that landscape, it felt odd to fully embrace Resurrection as part of the Hunter kit. Further, moving into Battle for Azeroth, we are solidifying Bloodlust and Battle Res as the strong shared cooldowns that a group can bring - one offense, one defense. In that world, Hunters having access to both of the super powerful group benefits didn’t feel appropriate.
Where do we sign up to protest all of this?
I think these changes are a step in the right direction, now your pet choice actually means something again as opposed to it being purely aesthetic like it is now. I think they should have a wider range of hunter centric abilities for each pet family, as unless you run 10 mans all raid wide abilities will be covered by the other classes.
I have mained a BM hunter forever, and my pets being messed with every xpac really upsets me. basically; IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DONT FIX IT!ok I voiced my opinion lol please blizzard stop screwing around with my pets and my character lore. ima troll dat plays raptors, please either take them back to wrath days or just leave them alone now
Posting to notify that, at the moment on alpha, bears are now ferocity, no longer tenacity.They were still tenacity last night.Edit - Tallstriders, too, are Ferocity not Tenacity as posted here.Edit - Cranes are Tenacity on beta atm. 4/25/2018
More stable slots please! Or even adding pet "skins" like others are suggesting is a wonderful idea in my opinion!
I still don't get why spirit beasts are tenacity.
Ok so my only pet "rare cat" i got since vanilla "Rak'shiri" cant be a tank anymore...that is just ridiculous, i dont think im going to play my hunter anymore true fact.
a spirit beast tenacity ok, i turn out growl perfect, now hunters have to think about to travel with a variety of pets need to tame more and can use more pets not only one. so ok and the other point is they are so lazy to remodel really the hunter class that only changing this can say eh we did something more. is boring see how this go and forth patches cost 50 dolars, I am on beta testing and all work is in modeling 3d houses, put some lore and . same questing world quest cant fly like legion ... Game is nice, but i will not pay the developers at all.
The things that bumb me out is When Ferocity specs have defensive abilities. Really wanted a Ankylosaur to level with as a tank.Meanwhile, new Family: Lizards... are classed as Tenacity. Stab in the dark: Pretty sure Lizard pet family at the moment are cut+paste Devilsaurs. Yet Devilsaurs remain Ferocity.I think they should just give us the choice to choose what Spec our pet will be. And if you want to change it, just have an item similar to Pet Certificate to change it. Simples.