How do you think they could improve pets?Follow

This is nothing but a fun thread, please try not to scream at people if you don't like their ideas. I just want to see what people think Blizzard could do to improve the pet system, purely for fun. It just seems like something amusing to do while I'm bored and I'm curious what sort of idea's people have. So toss them out and let's play with them a bit :) It could be fun...maybe?

1: Pet's could use some armor, even if it's just a single piece. Nothing godly or anything, but just something that might give your pet a slightly modified appearance and a minor stat boost. Could be fun to play with

2: I would actually kinda like to see pet's 100% normalized (all pets) with a slider to customize your pet completely. I think each pet race should have 1 or 2 unique powers, and that should be the only difference. That way you can pick a pet by their powers and appearance and not have to worry about dps, defense, balance. To balance out the fact that all pets would have the same stats, you would have to customize that setup. When you tame an animal, the slider I mentioned before would appear. You would be able to move it left and right, to a maximum of +10% and a minimum of -10% (moving it one way or the other either takes away points or adds points that you can use) so that you could choose to make your pet DPS, Tank or Balance.

You want a DPS pet but hate the ones we have now? Ok, go tame a wolf and slide the bars around. +10% DPS, +4% armor, -9% hp, or...something. I dunno how the point system would work. But you see my point I would think. Giving hunters even more flexability to deciding what kind of animal they want would be nice, at least to me. Then the only thing you have to worry about is the racial powers for a pet, instead of pouting that you can't have the pet species you want because it's basically useless. Might be nice to see something other than a Cat, Ravager or Wind Serpent for a change...

3: Rename feature. I don't care if it costs some gold, I think you should be able to rename your pets.

Yes >_< I want more stable slots! How the heck did I not think of that when I pout everytime I look at the stable master o.O

Yea, the bag slot is kind of annoying. On the other hand it does give us an attack speed boost. I'm not sure if I would be willing to trade the speed boost for a bag. I've never tried before, but is it even an option? Can you fire arrows out of a bag instead of a quiver?

Pet slot is a big one!

I'd like pet augments of some kind, like collars or hoods or something, make them like meta gems, having interesting effects.

I'd also like to see all families useful and maybe a few more special skills.

I really like the idea of the pet having unique abillities.Also in pve and in pvp.
Like some raids buffs or some anti-class buffs.
So in the future if someone is whine about ex. rogues we can reply:

"read the sticky!!!!!!!!!!!tame a wolf with smelling!( smelling a 20 yards abillity of wolfs to smell rogues and attack them first )

15%?

I think he was answering the rhetorical almost-question. :)

I wonder if we still still learn the base abilities from tamed beasts.

If not, then we will be able to use all 3 slots properly. It might not change, though.

I wish my pet could feign death whenever I needed him to. He's been getting squished by level 72 elites that sneak up on me in Shadowmoon Valley. I feign death and lay there watching my loyal sidekick, who basically threw his body in front of a bullet for me, get smashed into a new fur coat for Mr. Elite dude.