PETS will now scale!

[Fat Tire]

We think it's probably time to let pets scale, to some extent, with resilience and spell pen.

The way pets scale from the master's stats was implemented (on our side) in a slightly clunky way which made it difficult to add additional stats. In BC, it took some effort to kill a pet so it wasn't a burning problem for us. In LK, we have bumped up pet health a few times, but we are thinking now that the balance will never work right without some crit mitigation. Pets will never scale right with gear as long as the master improves in ways that don't benefit the pet.

We have a new way to let pets scale, and assuming it works, we should be able to give the pets scale with all relevant stats from the master, from hit to haste to crit. Some things will need to scale at 100%, since it's silly to have your pet inherit part of your +hit.

No promises until you actually see it live, but that's what we are thinking at the moment. [ Post edited by Ghostcrawler ]
Ghostcrawler
Lead Systems Designer

:P
Holy crap!

[Stealthy]

Interesting...I wonder if this will lead to some viability for hunter pets tanking heroics - of course that would mean the hunter would need to be geared out the ass. :P

[Noids99]

Yeah... geared out the ass with mail +def gear :P

[Bovidae]

Yeah... geared out the ass with mail +def gear :P

Do they still make that? I remember being bummed when I figured out Shamans would not make a viable tank, but that was a long long time ago. Now I tank all the time, but with the same success rate.

[Dominian]

Interesting...I wonder if this will lead to some viability for hunter pets tanking heroics - of course that would mean the hunter would need to be geared out the ass. :P

I have my doubts but Blizzard happen to do lots of silly things, i have my doubt it would go trought the PTR without getting noticed though.

The main problem will be to find mail/leather gear who got shit loads of stamina and defence.

[Zaelar]

I've seen green mail with +defense. You could just use pvp gear and get uncritable through resil.

[Stealthy]

Yeah... geared out the ass with mail +def gear :P

Do they still make that? I remember being bummed when I figured out Shamans would not make a viable tank, but that was a long long time ago. Now I tank all the time, but with the same success rate.

Have a look at this vid of a sham tanking naxx...interesting. He's Enchance spec'd, but overgeared for Naxx 10 though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLHLWVQkufk

Cheers,

S.

[Zaelar]

Also he only said they might scale with resil and penetration, no mention of defense. Whether or not they will scale with it remains to be seen, and I could see it going either way.