Blizzard has recently stated in the PTR notes for Warlock
" With the arrival of the new warlock pet customization system coming in Fractures in Time, we will deprecate the Glyph of the Observer customization.* Our reason for this is to ensure that each demon retains a similar silhouette across all available customizations, so that each demon and the functionality or power they provide to the warlock is easily understood by other players as well as the warlock."
While I completely disagree with Blizzards logic here, if they’re going to apply it, then it should be applied consistently.
If pet silhouette is so important that player identity and expression must be gutted in the spirit of easily understanding a pet’s given utility on the battle field, clearly 77 hunter pet families are an even more egregious example of violating this principle.
By reducing pet families to 6, enemy players (as well as the hunter!) will be more aware of the pets functionality based solely on silhouette, just like felpups.
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So because locks are getting a pet removed, that means hunters must suffer as well? I dont understand how that makes any sense.
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As long as panthera cats don’t get removed I’m cool if Blizz removes all the others.
Game design should be applied consistently.
They stated the reasoning in their decision regarding felhound, and it’s not the first time they’ve said so (they brought it up in DF beta when warlocks were finally free to use the pet they wanted for utility instead of being locked to felhound, and then reverted, for this same really unfortunate logic).
But if that’s their logic, it’s clear that with dozens upon dozens of different-shaped hunter pets with the same abilities, or worse, same-shaped pets with DIFFERENT abilities, that they are missing more opportunities apply their design principal.
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First up, the Observer comes from a glyph and is not a default summon, so the loss of glyphed cosmetics and abilities is nothing new to all classes (or most, some are fortunate to cling onto what remains).
Second, spoiler alert - they kinda did already.
Hunters lost the ability to freely bounce their pet into different specs; the pets are locked to one of the three families and so for all the appearances only a couple will ever be used. The reason? Blizzard said:
“People need to know what kind of pet ability they’re facing in PvP”
So … actually kinda the same situation …
Can’t demand something that’s already happened! But that’s not to say it sucks either way!
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Hunter pets have been “Is it animal? Yes, it probably does damage to you.”
I would have figured they were only removing the Observer because it was a giant flying butthole with eyes and tentacles more than any other reason and they just made one up to make it sound more official.
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OP clearly being sarcastic and doesn’t want observer to be removed.
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observer glyph should replace Darkglare for affliction, since those two actually look very similar.
i agree with the heart of your message, but i feel like it would’ve been more effective to just ask that they not remove the observer.
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I understand what you’re shooting for. Why not just be direct?
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Hunters are the most popular class in the game. I think highlighting the hypocrisy given the immense scale may be effective.
And to be fair, some other people already took the high road.
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that’s true. chances are, they won’t remove the hunter pet families (more likely they’d just remove pet-families all together), but carry on.
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So, you promote more bad decisions because a bad decision was made?
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Hey Orc. Enemy of Enemy is Friend.
That only works for short while.
This is as tall as I get.
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So…do hunters run anything other than Mortal Strike pets in PvP anyway?
We’ll know for sure with fewer silhouettes.
they normalized pets a long time ago though.