I don’t get some of the pet class assignments. Who in the world thinks a duck is a tenacity pet? It’s just strange. Then again, I just tell myself what I have for the last 16 years… “remember, it’s a game where cows shoot lightning bolts from their fingers” 
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I started a Mechagnome hunter, and looked at Petopia. Some of the pets we can tame are hilarious. Chickens, ducks, squirrels, and sheep?
I also have noticed that they have dumbed down the hunter’s pets to an unbelievable extent since I last played one in Cataclysm.
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Why are mechanicals cunning pets? They are made of metal and have a tech shield ability. Clearly they should be tenacity pets.
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Every patch leaves me with greater pain about pets. They keep adding more but there aren’t many options if you care about optimization. I cannot take any pet that I wish because they took away specialization swapping. Pet families mean some pets are more useful than others. Blood of the Rhino makes Clefthooves the best tank pets, and BM is the easiest for world content, so I spend 95% of my time out time in World content with a Clefthoof. Have for 3 expansions now.
I very rarely PVP, thus I rarely use Cunning pets. I love Mechanicals but it is a Cunning pet with tank shield. Why use a Ferocity pet with a self-dispel in group content when I can use one with a MS debuff? Why use the brand new Dragonkin with their magic shield? Hecc, why use ANY pet on MM with Lone Wolf markedly better than anything pets offer? Yes, I could leave game play benefits on the table to use my favourite pets but I shouldn’t have to.
Take away pet family abilities. You already standardized their damage. Allow us to pick a specialization for each pet with 3 options-per-row talents. Pet respec at a stable master. If people not being able to identify what a pet can do in instanced PVP is an issue then lock pets to a specific PVP dedicated spec.
The other thing Blizzard could do is just take away all abilities from pets and be done with it. Make them all exactly the same. That way Hunters can just use any pet they feel like. They continue to add hundreds of pets an expansion yet completely ignore the fundamental issues with the pet system.
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I just laughed so hard at this title omg 
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How? I don’t know. I just find it amusing to see mobs get destroyed by a pair of murderous mallards with angry duck noises.