Pet normalization?

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Can someone clarify something for me? My understanding is that pet normalization happened in 1.9. If blizzard intends to use 1.12’ is it safe to assume that pets for hunters wont be normalized?

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1.12 was after 1.9

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With Blizzard using 1.12, it’s safe to assume everything will be in the state that it was in at the very end of Vanilla just before the pre-TBC 2.0 patch dropped.

Content is being dropped in phases, but all the content will be in its final 1.12 state.

This means all the pet normalization that happened in Vanilla should be there from the start.

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Oh! Thanks. The numbers confused me a little, guess its not numerical.

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Software release numbering is weird. Think of 1.9 as 1.09 and you’ll be set.

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That’s why I’m not rolling hunter as main this time. Takes all the fun out of rare pets :confused:

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I know right, i was just thinking that. It was either lock or hunter. Guess i gotta go lock
:frowning:

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It’s not weird and quite easy to understand.

1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4

etc.

Basically .X is the major patch iteration. It counts numerically based on the tenths place…

Please tell my you aren’t confusing the 1.9 normalization with the BC normalization.

1.9 normalized run speed and damage type. And a few other minor things to specific pets/pat families.

Rare pets like Brokentooth were still worth getting.

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Except in decimal notation, 1.12 < 1.9, which leads to confusion. Software version numbers don’t use decimal notation, but they do use the same character (in the U.S. at least) to separate fields, so it looks like decimal notation, and to folks not familiar with software versioning it’s confusing.

1.1.2
1.3.4
etc.

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Except this isn’t decimal notation, this Major Version of WoW 1 version 1, Version 2, Version 3. Anyone who looks at the patch numbers for more than 2 seconds can figure it out, so you basically have to willfully misunderstand it.

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Movement speed was normalized, not attack speed. Which is good.

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Right. They still attacked faster, but did they do more DPS? I don’t think they did but they’re still amazing for PvP.

Also man, I can’t even quote your link. Not sure why I can’t post any links.

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Trust level. Pretty sure I have trust level 3.

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I appreciate the feedback! Thanks everyone for the clarification!

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While some pets did have faster attack speeds, they did the same dps(just did less damage per hit).

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What is this, vanilla WoW? :face_with_raised_eyebrow: Do I need more likes or something?

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So the faster pets became more important for spell pushback right? But also wasn’t broken tooth more sought after because he was faster than the other cat types?

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Correct, which is why Broken Tooth (a cat with 1.0 attack speed) and the ZG bats when they’re released (also 1.0) are really good for PvP.

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This is wrong. The dps of different types of pets varied.

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Sweet! Thanks!!!