Tag Archives: Patch 8.0

Hunter News, Hunter Pets

Broken Tooth lives! Hunter pets can have different attack speeds once again

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Before you read any more, let me TLDR this first: There is no appreciable damage difference between pet attack speeds because damage is normalized. For the most part, it simply adds flavor to different pets. First, a little history. Back in Vanilla WoW, several pets had different attack speeds (you can see the original list Continue Reading ››
Hunter Guides, Hunter News

Beast Mastery Hunter guide to the Battle for Azeroth pre-patch

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The pre-patch is almost here! Today the Beast Mastery guide I've been working on was published over at Wowhead. It covers pretty much everything for Beast Mastery in 8.0. If you haven't been following/playing the beta closely, it should give you an idea of what to expect with the pre-patch this week. A lot of work … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News

BfA Beta: Changes to Animal Companion (Hati replacement), does almost everything your regular pet does

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The Animal Companion talent has been in a near-unusable state for the majority of beta, but in today's build it has received some major updates. It's not as simple as the current tooltip indicates (a second pet that does Kill Command and nothing else). Once all the bugs and kinks are worked out, it looks … Continue Reading ››
Hunter News, Hunter Pets

Hunters get 10 more stable slots in Battle for Azeroth

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You can now tame a total of 65 pets with the addition of a 6th page of stable slots! No, it's still probably not enough for some of you (an extra 100 might not be enough). But it's 10 more, so that's 10 new pets you can tame in 8.0 without worrying about having to … Continue Reading ››
Opinion

If I could change Beast Mastery in 8.0, I’d probably do something like this

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Beast Mastery had a rough start in Legion, but I think Blizzard managed to get it in a decent place considering where it started. Giving 2 charges to Dire Beast as baseline was huge. One of my other favorite patch changes was increasing the range of Kill Command and Dire Frenzy to 40 yards, as … Continue Reading ››