This is my first time making a forum post, and I only just started playing again for the first time since near the end of Legion. Hopefully this isn’t a forum topic that has been posted a bunch of times?
Anyway - to start off, I’m loving the expanded stable slots. Right before SL dropped I spent a solid week+ just catching up on tames I had never gotten around to or had missed out on. Now, my stable is sitting around 100ish (to be fair a lot are doubles, because why rock BM unless you can show off matching pets?), and it got me thinking - the UI for hunter stables is kind of outdated and a pain to manage with that many pets. I would love to see it updated to something similar to the Mounts/Pet Journal tabs, with options for filtering, different sorting options (family, spec, etc.), stuff like that. Scrolling through pages of 10 pets at a time and having to click on each one to see what it is because they use generic thumbnails makes sorting or finding the one you want a pain. It would also be cool to be able to save different “teams” to bring with you? Just spit balling here. As an aside to all of this - besides “realism” or “lore reasons” or whatever, I’m not really sure why functionally we can’t just have access to our entire pet roster on the fly, much like the mounts and battle pets, and am not sure why stable masters are even needed these days. But I’d deal with still needing to visit a stable master if we could at least get a better UI and sorting options.
One other idea I had - separate but related suggestion that didn’t really feel big enough to make its own forum post - with such an expanded roster in my stable now, and the ability to rock two pets at once as BM, it would be awesome if Hunters could get an ability that let them summon two random pets (or one for other specs). This would probably have to tie in to the previous point about us potentially having access to all of our pets on the fly and removing the need for stable masters in order for it to function correctly, but I think it would be a lot of fun. And really, I don’t think it gives any sort of competitive advantage, so I don’t see any reason this couldn’t be a thing? Like at this point, we can only summon one pet with abilities (the second just uses Kill Command and auto attacks so it doesn’t matter what type it is), and we have enough slots as it is to carry one of each type anyway (ferocity, cunning, tenacity).
Anyway, that’s it! Just some QOL updates I’d love to see for my favorite class. Anyone else agree? Have other suggestions? Think it’s a terrible idea?