Mania's Arcania has been doing some experimenting with tamed pets on the PTR, and she's got a few great tips for all you hunters picking up new pets. First and foremost, apparently any pet you tame, no matter how happy it is or how often its fed, will stick around with you for at least 30 minutes, so if you tame a new pet and don't have food for it, you've got that long to find some. Dismissing a pet or having it die actually stops that timer, too, so if you don't have food and the time is about to run out, you can dismiss the pet, and then recall it when you have food to feed it.She's also looked at some more technical information on how quickly pet health returns after various kinds of dismissals-- in most cases, it looks like your pet actually comes back with a lower percentage of health, which then ticks back up to full in just a second. Probably won't affect most Hunters, although a few of the situation she goes through sound like battleground PvP to me, and it could be that Hunters there are using their pets so quickly that it might make a difference. More testing is on the way, she says.
But at least the taming schedule will probably help Hunters who end up grabbing a rare spawn as a pet and then realize they don't have the food to feed them. We've got more breathing room than we knew we had.
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7-20-2007 @ 11:42AM
Bad Mojo said...
OK... now that's awesome info to have! I know I've tamed odd pets, a turtle< and had no food for it only to be running around in panic mode trying to find a vendor for something.
Plus it should give you enough time for some combat to learn any skill ups for your "full time" pet
Excellent info. Thank you so much :)
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7-20-2007 @ 12:32PM
Draddog said...
My worst moment as a hunter was having just tamed Humar the Pridelord after camping his spawn for 8 hours. I didn't have any food, but figured I had plenty of time to get to Astraanar befor I had any problems. Well I decided to finish up a quick quest in the area, and during the last fight things were kind of going south for ole Humar and I. Suddenly I see a message "Your Pet Has Run Away" and his health bar dissappers. Finishing up the fight, I tried to call him back: "You have no pet." \sigh
So I went back and camped again, geting him later that day. This time I had a full stack of meat which I promptly fed to him (yup, all 20 pieces). Overkill, but I didn't want to have to do that again.
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7-20-2007 @ 12:55PM
Slayblaze said...
You know seriously, if you're a Hunter and don't always always always carry around plenty of food, then you have just failed. Especially if you're BM but any spec really.
Failed.
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7-20-2007 @ 7:57PM
Draddog said...
@3 - I agree completely - I had no meat because I was using a bird (if I recall) at the time which ate fruit. Lack of good planning - yes, bad hunter? Maybe ;)
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