Great Idea! So I’m Stealing It

BRK » 17 February 2007 » In Best of, Pets, Professions, Talents »

Saw a wonderful thread on the WoW hunter forums called Hunter Patch Notes You’d Like To See. Some good, some dumb, almost all misspelled, and grammar discarded like gray vendor-trash. Here’s a few of my favorites along with some of my own.

Flying pets can now fly beside you on your flying mount. Seems like a no-brainer. Gimme.

Non-flying hunter pets are dismissed with no loss of Happiness when flying mount is summoned. How the expansion got through beta without this being implemented is beyond me.

Decreased Shaman quest rewards and increased Hunter armor quest rewards. You know there’s too much shammy gear being offered for quest rewards when the hunters in your guild start a drinking game. Ever time a shammy green is received as a quest reward, all the hunters have to take a drink. If a shammy blue is received, every hunter must drain everything in their glass. Last one standing/sitting gets the next BoE hunter item that is collected.

Overall pet experience gains have been increased by 50%. Pets will now receive a rested experience bonus, increasing the experience gained to 200%. Trying to level my dragonhawk from 68 to 69 takes 196,000 XP. He gets about 500 XP per kill as I grind Consortium rep. That’s 392 mobs I have to kill to get one level for him. Sheesh.

Hunter can buy stable slots like bank slots. I would become a Pet Wh0re in an instant.

Readiness has been removed from the Survival tree and replaced with nothing, in order to prevent anyone from accidentally clicking on it and having to respec. That’s just d@mn funny.

Bears and all other neglected pet families will now have “special” abilities. Give me a reason to get these pets. Why bother offering them if they’re just junky.

Engineers can now make Explosive Tipped Arrows and Bullets in Fire, Frost, Arcane, Shadow, Nature, and Mana Burn flavors. Adamantite shells both suck and blow. Want a resurgence in the engineering profession? Gimme.

Players who break freezing traps will themselves be frozen for the original duration of the trap. Just don’t let mages get wind of this; every server will be filled with sheeped players if they get their way.

New mage spell, Conjure Sporeling Snack. Best food in the game, IMHO. Don’t make me traipse through Zangamarsh anymore.

Combat Experience has been made into a 5 point talent with 2/4/6/8/10% bonuses. Combat Experience is the worst talent available. I call it Combat Idiocy.

New enchantments for guns: “Semi-Automatic” increases fire rate by 10%, “Sniper Eye” increases chance to hit by 10, and “Dirty Harry” increases base damage by 10%. I don’t care how much it costs, I want a Dirty Harry on my gun.

New enchantments for bows: “Feather-Light” increases fire rate by 10%, “Compound Conversion” increases chance to hit by 10, and “Geena Davis” increases base damage by 10%. If you didn’t know Geena Davis was an olympic-calibar archer, shame on you.

New tailor recipe, Pet Bandana, takes on the colors of your guild’s tabbard and is worn around the pet’s neck. Wouldn’t that be cool?

Kill Command is on a five-minute cooldown, can only be used when the target is below 5% health, and will cause your pet to pull back and launch at his target, grabbing the mob by the throat and shaking it like a rag doll. All pet damage is increased by 100%, and all pet damage taken is increased by 100%. When I say kill, I mean kill, not just hit harder one time. And can I get a cool visual? The “turns red” thing is passe.

Best of, Pets, Professions, Talents | February 17, 2007

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One Response to “Great Idea! So I’m Stealing It”

Lassirra on February 19th, 2007 10:14 pm

“…grabbing the mob by the throat and shaking it like a rag doll…”
LMAO!! That would be absolutely HILARIOUS. I would respec for that alone.

“Players who break freezing traps will themselves be frozen for the original duration of the trap”
Heh. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had warlock pets break my freezing traps. This would totally serve them right! Although, I don’t think it’d be such a great thing if the MT got frozen because he raced off to help the Priest I just dumped a trap in front of…

There’s definite ups and downs to that one, lol.

“Hunter can buy stable slots like bank slots.”
I’ve ALWAYS thought this should be the case.

“Decreased Shaman quest rewards and increased Hunter armor quest rewards.”
Yeah, wtf is up with this? I can’t tell you how many times I’d turn in a quest in HFP and get pissed at seeing so many shammy items. From 1-60, I ran into MAYBE 10 shammy items, if that. Now that’s practically all I see. Seems a bit excessive, if you ask me.

Heh, good list.