So pets are now locked to a certain spec.
Didn’t they make a bid deal about letting players pick the spec of their pets so we wouldn’t be locked to playing certain pets?
Why did they revert it?
#FunDetected?
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Haven’t pets been locked to a certain spec for quite some time now?
Bears locked to Tenacity, Wolves to ferocity, etc etc.
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We haven’t been able to choose our pet specs since legion if not earlier…
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It doesn’t matter how long ago they took it away, they took it away at all. I’ve noticed that any non-ferocity pet gets melted, so I won’t use anything else. It’s limiting and frustrating (yes, I’m aware I can use double cloud serpents and it’s my own choice not to), especially knowing that at one point, I could have made any pet anything.
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another thing hunters had in legion they removed was moth/quillen brez 
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I remember training points…
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Probably was for a visual thing, so you’d be able to tell what spec the pet was attacking you as.
Players don’t have that issue, you can easily tell what classes are attacking you
Ferocity pets get Leech. Makes it hard to kill them.
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That was part of the “critical skills” redistribution. Hunters couldn’t have hero/lust and Brez
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I believe BIS pet is clefthoof… is that right?
I use the frogs from tanaan jungle because they are smaller than a battle pet.
Hunter is the most pruned and gutted class in the game. Every fun thing the class has had historically is now screwed with or removed. Name a class with more fun stuff taken away. They took a whole spec away.
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It used to be that way
Choice went away with the “un bloating”
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Doesn’t every hunter use Cunning in PvP for the root break anyway?
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We were able to respec our pets in Legion. It was pretty dope.
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Ferocity spirit beasts was pretty nice.
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I don’t have a clue why it was removed, really kills a big part of my enthusiasm to play a hunter when I feel so forced to use pets because of the ability they offer, not the pet skill but the pet spec skill.
It was one of those things that wasn’t a problem that they fixed for the whole “class fantasy” thing but were so lazy about it doesn’t make any sense.
Like the spec names for the pets seem like a theme but then you see things like carrion bird being ferocity while birds of prey are cunning, the birds that are sneaky and get their food by being smart are ferocious, while the hunting bird that gets its food by hunting and killing are instead cunning, why? There are several other ones that seem to be the pet spec they are so there is a rough balance of pet skills and total amounts in each classification.
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I wish to carry a bear in pvp, there are many beautiful pets that are forgotten in the stables.
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I question some of the classifications as well.
Frogs are tanks?
Have you ever met a frog IRL?
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It was nice to have the ability to spec your pet to what you liked, so it was about what kind of pet you ran with rather than its abilities. It was an appearance or concept thing: my worgen runs with nothing but wolves for instance.
I think people hit on part of it above: they wanted to shrink the variety of abilities that hunters had at their disposal, so it wasn’t so widely varied. Basically Hunters, with the right pet, could do almost anything in the game. Which was cool for hunters, but made some feel uncomfortable, especially the designers.
I also think that they wanted to create more distinction between pets, so that people had to choose between types rather than take anything they wanted. But like Vincent points out some of the types make no sense at all.
And Cunning is pretty worthless in most of the tame, while the tank pets are… weaker than ferocity??
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I wish they would change this back. It’s just kind of sad that the best tanking pet is actually ferocity spec due to the leech. My panda hunter spent so much time getting two Ghostcrawler crabs for a set and now… well… (sad gnome face).
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