BRK Heart of the Phoenix & Lick Your Wounds Movie
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Given that I’m so used to questing with my gorilla now, my precious kitty still has the job of instance and raid DPS, even though I didn’t bother going for the Lick Your Wounds in favour of Call of the Wild (never mind the exotic pets, Beast Mastery 51st is wonderful, meaning I can have Rabid too).
We’ll see what happens when I move beyond non-heroic instances and into raids, but for now, I think I have a pretty good KittySpec goin’ on.
Heart of the Phoenix is really nice when you’re in a boss fight and forget about that first whirlwind that always seems to happen right as you’re starting your massive dps rotation and it kills your pet….HotP and poof, you’re actually able to do DPS again.
I’ve left Lick Your Wounds on autocast…it rarely goes off on me when my pet has more then 50% health, and while soloing that rarely happens, as a kitty isn’t being used to tank more then 2-3 mobs when I’m out alone…in instances, my kitty will sometimes take a beating and that’s just one less thing I have to micromanage while I’m getting the rest of my abilities on auto-pilot.
“Heart of the Phoenix is really nice when you’re in a boss fight and forget about that first whirlwind that always seems to happen right as you’re starting your massive dps rotation and it kills your pet….HotP and poof, you’re actually able to do DPS again.”
Hehe, I’ve had that happen way too many times already. <.< I haven’t had a chance to try out Heart of the Phoenix in a raid situation yet but I have a feeling it’s going to be great, especially since a ferocity pet is such a big part of my damage.
I’m not so sold yet on Lick Your Wounds though–it’s channeled, which so far seems to mean that my pet will stop attacking for a while. In raids and 5-mans it’s probably great, but in soloing the only thing I’ve found it useful for is reducing downtime between fights, since it has no mana cost. It doesn’t seem to work so while if used while the pet is actually supposed to be tanking. Since my wolfie is going to be my solo and dailies pet, I’m probably going to spec him out of it in favor of more survivability talents.
They’re both great spells, but if you take them you have to give up some DPS talents… hardcore raiders would probably give them a miss.
I personally chose a raptor for levelling and this spell may come in handy for end game raids. also my raptor holds agro fine i just attack what he attacks
I’m not sure why a raider would give up HotP. We’ve all lost our pets during boss fights and a BM hunter relies on his pet for a major percentage of their DPS. So keeping HotP can mean (not sure of exact percentages) but I would guess close to 30% of your DPS if you can rez your pet after the first wave of a boss fight where he gets caught in a massive aoe. Also helps occasionally save wipes when something goes awry and all of the melee range members die. So often that seems to happen with just a bit of health left on the boss. One click and you can get a little tanking and dps from the pet to maybe down that last 10%.
I just wish Blizz would fix it so it autofires properly giving us one less thing to micromanage.
I’ve left Lick Your Wounds on autocast ever since I got it, and it only activates when my pet drops to around 20% health. I love it on autocast, he uses it everytime without fail when he’s close to dying, and never anytime before. Also, the short 5 second cast time of it is pretty good I’d say, doesn’t take him out of DPSing for that long.
Hey BRK I was watching this today and my wife said you sound like the Sting Ray teacher for Finding Nemo.
Speaking of which… Where’s me frikken podcast episode 9 yo?
only time i ever usd HoTP my pet immediately died after reszing.
“only time i ever usd HoTP my pet immediately died after reszing.”
I’m only a casual player (just level 75 so far), but same here.. So I dropped it. But will reconsider perhaps. Down the line some…..
Same here. It seems to be still bugged.
I use HotP a lot in Naxx now. Pet always comes back with full health when I hit it. It’s a dream come true.
I’m with Pyro. We need more Podcast. =/
I’m with Pyro. We needz moar podcastz.
Oops, double post with a broken edit button. >.>
You could use one macro for both spells
/cast [target=pet,dead] Heart of the Phoenix;Lick Your Wounds
If your pet is dead it will cast HotP if not it will cast LYW
I’m late to the commenting, but here’s the macro I use:
#showtooltip [target=pet,dead] Heart of the Phoenix; Lick Your Wounds
/cast [target=pet,dead] Heart of the Phoenix
/cast [target=pet,nodead] Lick Your Wounds
If the pet is alive, it is a Lick Your Wounds button and appears as such. If the pet is dead it’s a Phoenix button and appears as such.
Both the macros will work but Drew’s is easier to remember
Just another note on macros:
I noticed, as I shifted pet types around, I ended up with a half-dozen macro buttons, each firing some special ability (usually two per ‘pet class’ – tenacity, ferocity, whatever) that didn’t fit on my pet’s bar. The solution was pretty darned easy.
/cast [pet:] Heart of the Phoenix
/cast [pet ] Taunt
/cast [pet ] Carrion Feeder
… select the ‘question mark’ icon, and it’ll even show the correct icon for the pet.
You can also ‘double up’ – I have two Ferocity pets. Fantasy and Fortune; my Tenacity pet is named Fury, my Cunning pet is Fireheart. My own macro looks like this:
/cast [pet:Fantasy] [pet:Fortune] Heart of the Phoenix
/cast [pet:Fury] Taunt
/cast [pet:Fireheart] Carrion Feeder
… using the question-mark icon. Voila! Autoswitching pet skills based on name!
Roar.
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