Hope they will change before release
Iām okay with a 4 sec cast with a buff to pets tankiness and maybe a mend pet buffā¦ small one but back in the day you could make it where your mend pet removed a DoT every time it ticked.
Just a reminder that 6sec pet rez is ridiculous and will not work.
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Hey yāall pet rez is still 6 secondsā¦ This is messed up.
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Iām hoping that when it goes to beta and Blizz starts to do serious balancing that this rez timer will drop to half or less.
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Best thing we can do is just to continue to raise concern. Even half 3 seconds, while better than 6 is a considerable nerf to our now 2 seconds. Comps that see the advantage of a hunter pet dead can lock you out for a decent amount of time. Iād say youāre about 66% of your full potential w/o a pet, and maybe even less given the buffs they give, utility they provide, the focus they regen, and damage output.
Even warlocks donāt receive that much pain from a demon death.
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This has gotta be fixed, considering over the past 2-3 days, itās cost people,me included, 3 Loque-Nahaks because the last thing we expect while TAMING, is our pet to come out and kill a pet that could be worth 100kās of gold to Hunters!
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Six seconds to revive a pet is just pure hell. I question the sanity of the person who thought this was a good idea. If your pet dies (or when it does, I mean), it should just respawn after a couple of seconds.
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Warlocks got a new spell that makes our next summon (6 second cast) instant, on a three minute cooldown. This feels awkward and generates button bloat. Pets should not be dying more often than every 3 minutes so the cooldown on the spell is kinda pointlessā¦ Iād just as soon have a reasonable cast time for summons to start with.
ā¦and Hunters didnāt even get a similar spell.
Well that is just depressing. 
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Doubly so since we need pets out to use our own abilities. Warlocks need their pet alive for some dps and utility, but it doesnāt shut down half of their most important abilities.
Poor BM and SV.
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Marks PvP outside of random BGs and WPvP (big setting) uses their pets often for itās vital utility. So really poor hunterās all around. Marks Arena uses pets all the time.
I wonder if MM might actually surpass SV as the āPvP specā since their dps isnāt reliant on pets?
Yes, MM will suffer utility-wise as all hunters will, but lucky for them they donāt have to rely on Kill Command or Bestial Wrath/Coordinated Assault at all, so they are much more difficult to shut down than the other two hunter specsā¦
Anyhow this is still a terrible change. Blizz has to fix this 6 second cast for all hunters everywhere.
No I personally donāt believe so, but maybe! I donāt because they are still glass cannons and need lots of support to supplement that. Surv and BM will still hold up on their own more. Thatās why Marks is great in large scale pvp because theyāre less likely to be the sole target as well as usually have the support. Marks is still the āPvP specā for non-rated pvp.
Now not to say there isnāt great Marks hunters out there now, there absolutely is. Itās just far and few between.
I donāt understand this to be honest.
First they nerfed pet damage by 25% in pvp, including kill command which is essentially a hunter ability because it requires being in range and line of sight; and Iām assuming they didnāt change this for next expansion.
Now they make it so if our pet dies, we need to spend 6 seconds raising it? A 6 second spell that can be interrupted and with how much mobility some classes have itāll be nearly impossible, especially in an arena type setting. Without your pet for BM you are basically worse than an enemy npc trash mob.
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This needs to be bumped.
Blizzard needs to either start implementing abilities that allows us to actually keep our pet alive, or they need to lower the punishment for having our pet die. You canāt just keep pets the way they are and increase the punishment for them dying. My pet dies, through mend pet AND my healer healing it, from just cleave alone. Absolutely ridiculous. Rogues can easily keep a survival hunter on perma kick while trying to do a 6 second cast.
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Thanks for the bump, I didnāt want to be the only one consistently doing it!
I agree!
And Survival. Surv canāt get focus without the pet.
Itās almost like Blizz wants everyone to play MM. lol.
But MM even uses pets for utility like freedom, sac, mortal strike, and movement speed in Arena soā¦
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Iām just here for the bump.
And this is still a ridiculous idea its it current iteration.
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