3.1 Pet NormalizationFollow

after reading through the 3.1 PTR notes and the patch notes direct from blizzard's main site i read that all pet family stat modifiers will be reduced to 5% for damage, health and armor. IMO i think it's kinda lame for blizzard to make all pets vanilla, now basicaly all pets do the same dmg, have the same health & armor... the only way to dissern between two pets is by there aestetics, skills and the way you spec your pets tallents. all in all i just think its lame that now a turtle does as much dps as a cat if there both under lvl 20. What are your ideas on what blizz is doing to the pets?

I have to say i am pleased that all pets will be roughly the same except for talent spec , to me it will mean more variety about , not like now with gorillas being the one and only aoe tanking pet .

And in the past it was even worse with half the pets being next to useless as many will remember , now instead of just a few species being viable we have a great choice in what pet we take with us on our travels , do not knock this normalisation as many Hunters have been fighting for years to have this happen.

I for one want to try out the pets that are going to get the Thunderstomp ? now that should be amusing at the very least , and i guess gorillas from being forgotten about then to being the must haves will be only used by those that still love them , which is as it should be.

I have said this before, I would much rather see blizzard make pets "mini-toons" if they are going to do this. It used to make some sort of sense and realism for pets to have different starting stats. On the whole I agreed with where they put the pets. But to scale all pets down with the same baseline stats... I am not sure what they are thinking.

The three trees for pets, now that would be nice. Take one "essential" skill from the current 3 talent trees (like TS for Tenacity) and either make that a skill to level or attainable by any beast with "X" number of skill points in that tree. I would love to see that type of versatility for pets that what we now have. It would almost be a throwback to pet training points, but then if you really liked wolves you could have one for tanking, one for DPS, one for... utility? pvp? I don't know the third tree as it stands now is useless.

The customization of pets is cool and all but I am not a fan of it. I really liked the old system where you researched what pets had what skills (by random training) and decided what you needed. I really miss the days of camping Snarler for the resistances, or the Shadow Damage wolf....