The core hound needs a hotfix please. Their main ability is supposed to be a ST melee fire blast with identical damage to a wind serpent and a 25% increase to the enemy casting speed for 10 seconds. The 25% casting speed debuff does not last 10 sec but maybe 1 sec making it pretty useless. The pet also cannot learn dash or charge making it quite slow compared to others. Thanks
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It lasts the full duration but any damage cancels the effect.
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Just a note that not all pets can learn a speed ability such as bears, turtles, crabs, scorps, etc. (besides getting the talent in beast mastery tree).
I haven’t looked into the core hound pet yet but if the intention was to make them a strong pet for raids, I guess it’s fine to ask blizz to add, but if there wasn’t any clear intention, then it’s just another pet option added.
Honestly I’d love if blizz did more with pets in SoD (or a future classic + if this isn’t considered that) where hunters aren’t expected to pick 1-3 pets out of all options because they are the only picks for raid meta. Would be nice to see more diversity (other then just taming a different color of the same pet) in raids.
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They had a tremendous opportunity to add some interesting changes to hunter pets and options with little to a lot of effort. New abilities could’ve been made, besides the single core hound one. Could’ve leaned into pet tanking with a high skill ceiling on pet management plus your own dps.
They doubled down in cat pets with focus fire rune. If your pet doesnt have claw, its useless.
Not my words, theirs.
Was even debating going wind serpent this phase, but claw 5 stack frenzy is too good. With rank 3 dash and rank 3 stealth, my god man. And to top it all off, bite as well.