Hey guys! do you guys feel like the pets have been extremely squishy since the expansion launch? I feel like my pets aren’t staying alive at all. I’m trying to heal them constantly, but they just die so fast.
I only just hit 70 yesterday, but I’ve got an iLvl of 333, and feel they should be a bit more robust than they appear to be currently.
I believe because of the reduction in stats, till you get gear any non-tank pet can’t take as many hits. I leveled with a Clefthoof and no issues at all, even rare and elite mobs were a breeze.
Yea i noticed it at 67 due to scaling. Turned pet taunt off because it was annoying
My wolf tanked 7 mobs in the Plains. He has leech and took some heals on cooldown but didn’t die. Tanking 2 may or may not need a heal. Usually can spam 1 at a time with a heal every few mobs.
I was really struggling without taking Wilderness Medicine (2pts, 25%/50% more mend pet healing+dispel). Even at 70 with ok gear. I think you just have to bight the bullet and put the two points in for the extra healing, and even then use it earlier than you’re used to.
Maybe more gear will help later, but yeah, personally, I’d like the base healing of mend pet to do 50% more healing baseline. Having to take Wilderness Medicine in PVP when there’s so many shadow priests around also means you just end up fearing yourself when it dispels VT which is tedious…
Pet Families have honestly been trash in variety and utility since at least Legion where Pets generally were strongly nerfed. Now you have most families being stuck between 8-ish abilities that are cookie cutter as can be while the only truly useful pets are ones that are a specific combo of things or are outright Exotic.
It’s the same as always with new expansions. Pets are weaker at first, relative to creatures you face while leveling up/questing in the new areas.
(Compared to your character in the late stages of the previous expansion, in this case SL)
Feels pretty normal to me.
I think Hunter pets need more HP to counter this issue.
After getting gear, 373 currently, it doesn’t feel bad at all.
I am so late to the game, I got a clefthoof this xpac to try it out over my spirit beast…GAME CHANGING! I couldn’t believe how ridiculous the healing on them is, it’s better than mend pet PLUS the spirit beast heal combined (at least it feels that way) .
I will 100% agree with you on this. My main pet now is Rupert the Rhino. He is so strong and heals insanely well. I use him to take 2-3 elites at Obsidian Citadel in Waking Shores.
As per the previous comments the other pets aren’t as bad when you have gear but the Clefthoof family for tanking is still way better.
get a ferocity pet with 50% damage reduction buff and keep spamming mend. If you want to, try to take at least 1 point in the mend talent.
Replace Blood of the Rhino and allow us to change pet specs again. I miss being able to use any pet that I wanted. Thousands of pet options out there but only slim pickings for Ferocity pets with Defensive cool downs. 90% of my pet up-time over the past two expansions was with a Clefthoof/Scalehide.
Ion has been touting how important customization is in this new era of WoW yet Hunter pets languish. I’d heard one issue is recognizing pet abilities in PVP at a glance but you could just make Cunning the PVP pet spec and lock all pets to Cunning in instanced PVP.
Use clefthoof, i have absolutely zero issues.
Honestly, I just wish they’d bring back the option to choose what type of pet you want yours to be. I don’t have any interest in Clefthoof, etc. because it doesn’t fit the “feel” and “theme” of my character.
Typically, I use Alpaca, because I’m a Vulpera and it suits my theme. I really wish they’d bring back the customization options of pets again, it’s a pretty crappy thing for them to have removed.
Agreed 10char
so much this, it was perhaps the worst decision they ever made to force us all to use Clefthoof and very specific families over what we want to use.
I wish we could get enough traction on this to get Blizz to rethink their decision. Why offer so many pets for us to tame, and make them pretty much useless with the exception of a small few? I don’t get it. It really puts a major damper on playing a hunter.
I miss when Quilen had combat res, Worms/Chimaeras’ AoE’s were useful for other than Trash and Viscidus, and Families actually had poison-related DoT’s that fit them other than just a Slow.