Worgen Pet?Follow

Looks like this went top priority on their list today or something. He has been hot fixed and is not tameable anymore. I just tried today with no such luck.

So far so good, IMO.

I only hoped to get to keep him.

Making him non-feedable was meh... isn't there a way to reset its happiness to 125%? Like entering a BG? I know there is a passive skill somewhere that lets pets gain +5% happiness on crits, but I don't remember if that was a hunter BM skill or a skill in the pet talent tree... which brings me to the only thing that kinda upsets me a little...

If the +5 Happiness gain on crit is a pet skill... you can no longer get into the talent tree or skill book for him... and I think his talents were all reset (or will be the next time Blizz resets points)... also... I am not 100% sure if you can even use any of his innate skills (bite... growl... etc...)...

I heard pre-hotfix macros for his abilities still work, but I can't test that out.

If anyone can clarify on any points I bring up, then by all means.


edit: Oh... and since the hotfix the worg that shows on the character select screen is no longer a regular size worg... he is now a HUGE (and I do mean HUGE) worg...



Edited, Jul 7th 2009 6:12pm by PentUpAnger

Stop stealing my answers >:(





Meanie.

good responses from the blue.

I don't know if it's the Worgen thing--the blog is still up, after all.

Lady Isyris, thanks for mentioning that Mania's blog is still up. I always go there too, through her main website though, which was down today. Glad to still see she's up and running (even if at only 50%, with her main site down due to traffic).

And this is my tinfoil hat thinking as to why Blizzard won't let your hunter have a Worgen:

At times like this the paranoid side of me thinks that the REAL reason Blizz nerfed the Worgen was because so many people were leveling their hunter alts ferociously to tame it, that they were afraid we’d break the servers. I can just imagine a team of WoW developers, grouchy and probably still hung over, sitting around their desk the morning after the holiday weekend going over some game related problems: “Hmm, people still waiting to get into instances. Some classes’ abilities still not working properly. Hunter population on servers increased by 50%. New Worgen skinned pet tamed, with normal hunter pet abilities. OMG THE HUNTERS ARE ALL LEVELING TO GET THE WORGEN PET. TOO MANY HUNTERS! Servers are hiccuping from the strain! We’d better get on this right quick, hotfix it NOW!”

You know, rather than nerfing the pet into oblivion, perhaps Blizzard should have took a harder look at the good it was doing for the hunter community. People were leveling up their hunters together, helping each other tame, and for many of them getting their dusty alts out of the closet and getting reinterested in the class again, only to get their hopes squished into the ground. All over one pet. Yes, granted this is only one pet, but…Blizzard should take this as a big hint…hunters want more pets, more variety of pets. And for many hunters, we can probably agree, 50% of our class is the pet we have. Sometimes I wonder if Blizzard just does things to the hunter class just to discourage everyone from playing it.

Okay, tinfoil hat off now.

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 3:00am by Spacepest

It was a hidden buff that made him a worgen when tamed, thats why when entering arena he turns back into a normal wolf entering an arena removes all buffs from players and their pets.