This too. If anything that’s the one that’s annoying because gotta wait for trash to die and if the boss is single target and you want to help on trash that’s more changes.
This is a more than acceptable solution and more than I’d have been happy with.
oh boy time for another 3k posts of the same cyclical argument drowning out other feedback
I will simply say that the pet should be purely cosmetic. Everything single post and argument of people for the pet to be kept in had nothing to do with the pet’s damage output or anything else aside from being cosmetic so the pet shouldn’t get damage buff and durability buff, it should be cosmetic only.
Trying to balance the spec for lone wolf and not lone wolf has been a disaster for the last 10 years and it’s the reason MM is in the mess that it is today. Just make the pet purely cosmetic. No bonus to anything. That way people that RP can keep the pet and be happy and the people that care about the tuning can stop having to deal with the consequences of designing a spec for two different playstyles.
Also a reminder that you guys still have not addressed the concerns with Trueshot, Aimed Shot, Lock and Load, or Streamline.
Will you be able to double dip pet family passives by picking one in the marks tree and then summoning a pet of the other family? Can I pick an ms pet and put mortal wounds on two different things? Also, roar of sacrifice is better with normal pet. If I can have a pet out, it would be better to have that version instead of eagle version.
Appreciate this… have not played in a bit due to the in game depression my character felt.
gonna log now and check on him… pretty sure he feels better now.
I think you’re worrying over nothing.
They said it’s a throughput dmg loss. They’re buffing pets for survivability in the overworld.
They also said they’re buffing pets to make up for some of the DPS loss.
Pets are sub-optimal in raids and instances.
Edits cuz autocorrect. Dang, autocorrect.
I love it… I personally never use a pet even solo and loved the change, but I’m glad people who legitimately had a strong bond with their companion were listened to.
Awesome Change!
Just needed to be the case at the start and we wouldn’t have had the outrage.
Well, i guess i will just continue using my pet, that will be my plan
I agree! It’s a fantastic solution, in my opinion. DPS trade off for survivability and vice versa. You can’t get better than this.
THANK YOU!! I’m so happy that my favorite fantasy will continue to exist!!
THANK YOU! This is literally all I wanted. Now I am excited for the patch.
You’re welcome to treat as such. There are actual gameplay improvements to be had by keeping the pet as the MM rework did not provide a single boost to the spec’s survivability.
… -I- care about tuning, and the consequences of eliminating one playstyle at the cost of another is unacceptable. This change is better.
I should hope you aren’t able to double-dip. They may need to rework that node, now that you mention it.
Thank you to everyone who took part in this decision.
Also, thank you for telling us now rather than delaying the news until Monday.
Additionally, I want to honor those MM hunters who don’t care about having a pet/would prefer to play petless. I am rooting just as hard for them, that this change will not adversely affect their lone wolfishness, as I did for keeping my pets. While I do not understand all the intricacies of coding, I do hope a workable balance can be achieved so that it is a win-win.
Thank you again. All of my MM hunters salute you, and all the pets in their stables want to give you affectionate headbumps.
The statement just means not playing with the pet was just going to be so far superior they add a lil damage buff for the pets to hold agro, there is no rly any issues
100% this.
I hope the pet remains entirely optional and I don’t want to see lone wolf players affected by us keeping it.
It seems like the option they’ve gone with is going to be suboptimal for DPS and have no utility tied to it anyway so this shouldn’t be a problem.
Very happy with this outcome.
So relieved right now, thank y’all!
I’m super glad that I can continue to use my faithful corpse hound that I tamed back in Shadowlands! And not just that, open world content and delves will be much less of a headache than they are on the PTR atm.
Now all Blizzard has to do is find a way to incorporate Wailing Arrow into Dark Ranger and fix up MM’s rotational issues, then I’ll be happier than a pig in proverbial excrement.
Thank you so, so much! This is genuinely huge to me.
You are 1/8H and a +8 is your highest timed key so that tells me that it is pointless to converse with you about tuning and design.