I mean losing dps in PvP for a purge global is fine
I have no issues with it being purgeable and dispellable, also personally I miss just spamming that global anyways. Purgeable punishes me for not paying attention if there isn’t a CD, then we ate both trading globals which is percectly ok
Pet management is already difficult enough without adding a requirement to spam Mend Pet.
Maybe if Mend Pet actually healed for enough to make it matter whether you have it up or not.
This is PvP only, I don’t think this is actually unfair because dispels have a resource cost too
It would actually be bad for people to mindlessly spam because they’d get punished and tbh I don’t think managing pets is actually hard it’s only just that the requirement is for your pet to be on a kill target for mortal wounds/kill commands
If pets could be used for pure utility I think keeping them alive would be much easier
When I say managing pets is hard I mean we don’t have the tools to actually keep the pet alive in the face of an enemy who wants it dead. It isn’t possible. We can’t spend all our Focus to keep our pet alive through the burst, Aspect of the Turtle doesn’t affect the pet, etc.
Assuming you aren’t BM with a Spirit Beast, you can Mend Pet, you can manually move your pet away from a melee, you can tell your pet to follow, you can use Master’s Call to have them charge to you (or an ally), you can have them Play Dead, you can use Survival of the Fittest, and that’s about it.
Mend Pet heals for a pittance, Survival of the Fittest is only a 20% DR, and none of the movement stuff does much against casters or melee with gap closers.
If somebody wants your pet dead, your pet is dead. Period. Now you get to also spend 6 seconds reviving your pet, assuming you don’t get kicked or stunned or CCd or killed during the cast.
I’m absolutely aware of that. I’m not saying this should be the only change, I just don’t see why mend has a CD to begin with and I’m fine if it’s dispelable
I would like if Blizz at least told us their reasoning for this nerf… It came out of nowhere and so far we haven’t gotten a single update after the build that brought us this…
I have been playing beta using my main, a BM hunter, for a few days now and this 6 second cast time is amazingly punishing. I was in a couple fights where the only way I could get my pet rez’d is if I turtled and resed the pet while in turtle while the mobs that I aggroed tried to kick the crap out of me.
Why in the world would a 6 second cast on this even be considered?!?!?!
That is the question with a capital “Q” indeed.
To quote Brann Bronzebeard:
“Inquiring minds just got to know.”
[Revive Pet] Revives your pet, returning it to life with 100% of its base health. 35 Focus. 6 sec cast. 4 sec cast.
So they took 2s away but increased the focus needed to cast by 25?
Is the 4 second thing a today change? it was still 6 last night.
Yes its todays change
I just logged into beta to check and it is still 6 for me.
A link or reference would be cool… Just sayin.
Its on Wowhead and MMO-Champion, i cant post links otherwise i would.
I got you fam, thanks for bringing this to our attention link below:
Under Hunter General
Revive Pet Revives your pet, returning it to life with 100% of its base health.
Cast Time changed from 6 sec cast to 4 sec cast
NOT A WIN, THIS IS STILL A NERF It is however, a change in the right direction
No beer or champagne deserved for this change to be honest.
It feels like celebrating for not being given dinner because we at least did not get yelled at by our abusive parents.
But I won’t lie, I’m just very salty over how Blizz has treated us so far.
hunter is a dead class in sl thats all the changes amount too
Im a bit positive, but bitter over the Pets being so nerfed and how overly simple we are.
4 seconds is still too long. We did this song and dance in MoP. It was at first 6 seconds, then brought down to 4, then 2. And that was in a time when our pets had an easier time surviving. I don’t want Blizzard to pull another “camera zoom” nerf here where they it by a lot, then bring that nerf half way, then pretend they threw us a bone. It shouldn’t be nerfed at all, period.