04-21-2005, 08:47 PM
Quote:New Pet Ability: Dive - Increases movement speed for a short duration.
New Pet Ability: Dash - Increases movement speed for a short duration.
So I'm wondering a couple of things. First, what mobs can you learn these abilities from? I have a young alliance hunter and a young horde hunter and they are both interested in them (well, just dash really).
The other question I have is how this affects Beastial Swiftness. Beastial Swiftness always seemed like a nice talent except that there was the pet speed bug. That seems to be fixed now (or so I have heard), but dash/dive seem like they may make it less useful. The main thing that Beastial Swiftness is used for is to speed up the speed that your pet charges at an enemy to attack it at the start of a fight. Dash/dive clearly take over this role now though. Beastial Swiftness will still help with chasing things, switching mobs, and any other mid fight running. One also must wonder, does Beastial Swiftness and dash/dive stack? That could make for some really fast movement. I suppose that it is still worth it since it only requires 1 point (if you are that far in the tree already), but I'm less sure about it now.