09-18-2004, 07:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-18-2004, 07:28 PM by MongoJerry.)
Quote:As side note, I find myself in agreement with several other hunters that have been posting that they would like it if the design team (or even a part of the Cosmos dev group) would come up with a way to have the pet life bars display to the other party members. While I consider that the pet is expendable compared to another party member; if it is servering as a main tanking force in the group then the healers need a better way of traking its life for throwing even the lower quality healing spells on it.
As a long-term priest, I've wanted this for a long time so I could track the health of a groupmate's warlock pets, especially if the pet is acting as the group's tank. Often the only reason I know a voidwalker is in trouble is if I happen to see the warlock channeling to heal the VW. It's quite frustrating.
Quote:An interm posibility you might try is to go to the entrance area of the Wailing Caverns and tame one of the 15+ to 18+ level raptors that appear in that area. This is what Chaku had done at first before stumbling on Humar being available. Try to pick a small one too make it more party targeting friendly.
Yeah, I thought about that and maybe I'll do it, even though Dog is doing just fine at present. My long term goal is to tame Ga'Mura (sp?), the named elite turtle in Blackfathom Deeps (25+). Turtles have incredible armor and would make an absolutely amazing tank. The only problem, as you mention, is that turtles are so big that they would likely annoy party members. However, the next patch is supposed to address some of the issues regarding pet size, so maybe it'll be ok.
Mentioned in a sticky on the Hunter forums (I was bored last night) is that the plan is to allow hunters to learn pet abilities from pets they tame and then teach other pets to use them. I'm sure there will be some limitations to this -- I can't imagine Blizzard allowing a rapter to fling nets and spit poison, for example -- but the idea does lead to some great possibilities. For example, wouldn't it be awesome to tame one of the big named T-Rex's in Un'Goro Crater and teach him to shoot lightning? Result: Godzilla!