Its all as uncertain as wind direction but eh… /shrug

The net is rife with WotLk news. Most of which I am ignoring because I don’t want Wot-Licky burn out before it is even released.

However BKR, Mystic and Petopia (awesome articles at petopia) and a few others have posted the new pet classing and pet skills calculators available over on WowHead – which of course I had to go sticking my nose into.

So pets of various classes will fall into one of three categories:

• Cunning – a PVP spec (also called utility – but heck they can eat corpses!)
• Ferocity – a DPS spec
• Tenacity – a tanking spec

The concept of proper pet tanks has everyone in the hunter community rather excited.

Popular bets are placing the Crocolisk as the best tanking pet because of the rumoured special ability ‘bad attitude’ where the croc attacks everything around it. (This is why you will see a few more hunters out in Shatt-city with crocs in tow.) Second runner up for best tank is the Bear, which may be getting a druidish ‘Swipe’ attack which will hit three mobs.

…my Warp although falling into the Tenacity group sadly will not be getting any kind of area attack and will keep the warp ability (looks like she will get dash though *_* as it may be standardized across pet classes along with the standard physical attacks: bite, bash or claw.)

Wolves (unfortunately for me) stay as ferocity and keep their currently crappy howl (although I’m hoping it gets tweaked at least.) So I wanted a wolf but he came in under dps with the same yucky howl so now I am not sure, another class may dps better. I have always wanted a red hyena from SM but he is another dps type – Dang. A lot of other beasties are getting some darn nice and useful special abilities

• Webs & Pins & Stuns
• Armour reduction
• Movement impairment
• Hit reduction
• Spell interrupts
• Disarm

Although only testing will reveal how useful they are in practice – they will all have cooldowns, and hyenas for example get a movement hindering affect… which at the moment can apparently be parried.

Happily they claim that the WotLK expansion will have a feature which levels anything you tame to within five levels of your own… so it’s not like I have to go out and hunt down a new stable until well into Northrend ^_^ – I am also looking forward to what the hunters who blog will write about the pets in the new system.

~ by Lactic Acid on July 25, 2008.