We’ve got a new PTR build with more hunter stuff:
- Call Stabled Pet: Cooldown reduced from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.
- Deterrence: Now also increases the chance for ranged attacks to miss the hunter by 100% while under its effect.
- Concussive Barrage: This ability is no longer subject to spell reflects.
- Point of No Escape: This ability no longer stacks and now only functions for the hunter.
- Pet Resilience: All player pets now get 100% of their master’s resilience.
Pets
- Avoidance: This talent has been replaced by Culling the Herd. Hunter pets now innately take 90% less damage from area-of-effect abilities like all other class pets. This does not apply to area-of-effect damage caused by other players.
- Cower: Redesigned. This ability no longer affects threat, and instead reduces damage taken by the pet by 40% for 6 seconds with a 45-second cooldown. While cowering, the pet’s movement speed is 50% of normal speed. Cower now only has a single rank and is available at pet level 20.
- Culling the Herd: This pet talent has replaced the Avoidance talent in the pet trees (Hunter pets now gain that benefit automatically without expenditure of talent points). Culling the Herd increases pet and hunter damage by 1/2/3% for 10 seconds each time the pet deals a critical strike with Claw, Bite, or Smack.
- Demoralizing Screech: The attack power reduction from this ability has been increased by 40%, equaling the maximum possible attack power reduction from the abilities of other classes.
- Improved Cower: Redesigned. This ability now reduces the movement penalty of Cower by 50%/100%.
- Venom Web Spray: Range increased from 20 yards to 30 yards.
- Web: Range increased from 20 yards to 30 yards.
- Wolverine Bite: This talent is now enabled when the pet lands a critical strike rather than from the target dodging the pet’s attacks. In addition, this talent no longer has a prerequisite.
We have some much more interesting stuff coming out now, though still nothing that’s huge. Dropping the cooldown on Call Stabled Pet is very nice for me with extreme soloing and certainly lets you swap out a pet for a single fight.
We now see what the Avoidance talent got replaced with, which is nice! We get to keep the aoe damage reduction (only better) and we get a damage increasing bonus talent. Squee! This is a net dps buff for hunters! Also nice to see they’re fixing Wolverine Bite since the expertise change pretty much made it pointless.
I’m also pleased to see the cower changes — this will give us a way to help keep our pets alive when they’re hit with raidwide dots (rather than aoe) such as the lava waves on Sartharion.
Resilience is now transferring 100% to pets, as predicted. However, still no word yet on whether they’ll get all our stats transferring to our pets.
Did you just say “Squee!”? As in pottercast?
Whups, sorry. That was me.
Any chance the resilience is for PvE now?
Nope, not gonna happen. Blizz doesn’t want to let that happen ’cause they’re afraid that resilience will become a tanking stat, which they don’t want.
I like these changes. Wow 30 yard range on web spray. Glad I roll with a spider for pvp right now thats going to be anoying as hell. Frost do you favor a particular pet for pvp? I know most seem to like tenacity pets like the crab for obvious reasons but I switch to SV for pvp for the explosive shot and use a spider for the web effect..
Oh hey I got the dragon helm from 25 man Onyxia today before I had to come to work. Looks impressive but havent got to gem it or study it yet. Was hopeing the gun would drop but at least I got something.
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/wave
Still waiting for a larger stable, at least 2 more pets would be ideal.
Dam still no stat conversion but i guess the resilence should help tanking especially with the new cower ability plus we gain some talent points back from avoidance its starting to look better keep it up bluey and give us some more please. At least we are getting buffs and not nerfs for a change !! long live the hunters .:)
Resilience only works against players, not in PVE. So alas it is not a tanking or soloing stat!
great change for hunters (and any class) emblems of triumph will be the standard drop in heroics and emblems of frost become the rare one to purchase Tier 10… this means to me stop doing heroics to farm emblems of triumph until next patch… also we get weekly achievements for raiding, whatever boss, with 10 emblems of frost as reward… we can take it easier until next patch ! also the buffs for Tier 10, don’t look that cool may be we can comment on that
Resilience does affect Crit chance and Crit damage reduction in PVE. Only the overall damage reduction portion applies strictly to players. This has been tested extensively by many Shaman in their challenge to try tanking various bosses.
Though I don’t know if pets are already crit immune (?), I’d think if not, this will definitely help in extreme soloing…
Holy living fuck…the T10 Hunter gear is by far the ugliest set that I have ever seen in the game. The drabbest, clunkiest, stupidest looking model that our class has had, by far, and with that idiotic helm re-skinning that looks like your brain has been cleaved with an axe head. I’ve never said this about any set in 4 years, but, I hate it.
I kind of want to cry, a little.
still find it quite funny that they are reducing the Call Stabled Pet from 30 to 5 minutes…. There are times i use the ability 5 or 6 times in an hour for different reasons… Activate Secondary Spec immediately resets the cooldown….
Resilience will not help tanking itself.
Perhaps it was the extra stamina on the PVP gear shammy, that made the shammy tanking go smoother:D
But lets look at PVP gear
If she’s got resilience, ya’know she’s pvp and stam up the ass. I use some PVP gear for tanking PVE stuff cuz the stamina is unbelievable on that crap, and as croc masta, ya needs all the stams ya can gets on ya hands
…..i suck, im using pvp gear to hunter tank….gotta….get….better….gear