But it’s non-sequitur.
They don’t balance around being able to skip Explosive Shot, as previously mentioned.
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You really want to compare an entire pet with its own abilities that acts as a dot regardless of LOS and can be fully directed by the player, with explosive shot? 
Yeah, I kind of figured this would come from you rather quickly. You’ve provided essentially no substance to this discussion since jump.
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Explosive shot hasn’t been a core part of hunter for 20 years though.
They’ve been slowly removing pet aspects from mm over 20 years though. However it’s still remained baseline, unlike explosive shot.
I like how you completely failed to qualify your position. Well done.
LOL, If you think that the problem is that Blizzard is “tolerating” mediocrity then you are a couple of years too late.
If you think they suck, then vote with your wallet. Unsub.
I think they are doing an ok job. But with this update, I might upgrade it to actually good. But that entirely depends on excecution.
Yes, Blizz have to ALSO stop calling it a pet. We ALL need to readjust. It’s not a pet. It’s more like the Ghost Wolves a Shammy has. That’s about as “pet like” as it gets.
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See my post above. Stop thinking of it as a pet. It’s more like a Totem or the Ghost Wolves from a Shammy. Blizz are referring it as a pet at the moment as a weak fig leaf which has backfired.
You can read the discussion between me and another adult, like a good kid.
Granted, though I don’t see how this changes the reality of the variables in question. Only the perception, and to your point they are inconsistent about a lot of things.
Do you think Call Pet being an early talent choice on the class tree would change the situation at hand?
I don’t think of it as a pet. Also this pet isn’t much like ghost wolves nor totems, spirits are a buff that does an inconsistent dot, totems are now just utility buttons with an awkward functionality.
The pet seems to be much more like Dire Beast but with a lot of extra gunk under the hood.
Sure you do, right?
Yeah, cause they dont invest money on it, /s
But my guy, we keep telling you:
- they can make the changes people so desire, and let the pet be a sub optimal option
There is not even a need to do that, you can redo things and dont even touch the pet and everyone will be fine, lol.
My guy, its blizzard who called that, they are pushing as a real pet that we need to like and enjoy as a substitute for killing ours
Its crap, i dont want a dumb bird visual, i want the option to have NOTHING or my own pets, like i do already
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No, you replied to me comparing explosive shot with the entire pet.
They’re all significantly bigger variables than the pet. I guess we should do away with all of them as well. Get rid of all those pesky abilities next as well. Just one button that does damage. Sounds like a plan, let’s get that right out the door.
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I think it would help. Currently pets are baseline and you have to opt into lonewolf.
Flipping the script would help with balancing arguments. Even if it’s just at face value.
More than you clearly if you think microsoft is paying blizzard devs.
Or we can just ditch the pet and get an actual archer spec. Like they are doing.
It’s a more measured approach than what the current situation is, I think. I don’t know if I agree that it would help. I’ll need to think on it.
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LOL, calling Blizz super inconsistent is like calling the Pacific Ocean wet.
I love the game but I’m not going to ride with blinkers on.
The pet accounts for approximately 0% of their tuning adjustments over the past decade. They don’t need to get rid of it to simplify anything about tuning. That’s just some head canon nonsense you’ve cooked up to justify this change.
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Yeah sure buddy. That’s why they are citing things like the fact people have to summon and dismiss for lust and access to other pet abilities as part of their motivation to make the change. They are trying to balance around these issues and it’s more efficient to just remove them entirely.
Quote me when i say exactly what you claimed i did.
Thank You. And this alone is just more credence to the fact that WORDS MATTER. If Blizzard had just said the pet is gone and made no reference to the idiot eagle this might have been a lot easier. Instead a chunk of the Convo is getting bogged down with semantics about the pet and how people don’t like how it looks …
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