The Official WoW Blog: The first World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria patch of the year is in development and available for testing now on the Public Test Realms. This patch will include several updates to the ongoing conflict between the Horde and Alliance, the new Brawler’s Guild, Pet Battle improvements, assorted bug fixes, and more. If you’d like to help us test out this patch and provide feedback, you can start by copying your character over to a test realm. Once you’ve had a chance to try things out, be sure to visit our Public Test Realm forum to discuss the patch.
Note: Features mentioned in the 5.1 Patch Preview may not initially be available on the PTR, and could be included as testing progresses.
Hunters
- Aspect of the Fox has been removed.
- Steady Shot, Cobra Shot, and Barrage can now always be cast on the move.
- Lynx Rush has been changed. Lynx Rush is now a bleed effect that causes damage every 3 seconds over a period of 15 seconds, and stacks up to 9 times.
- Bestial Wrath no longer grants Hunter pets immunity to crowd control effects, and instead now breaks existing crowd control effects when activated.
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I don’t deny that something had to be done about BM burst, but is this kind of BW nerf really the right way to go about it?
Seems to me that we should wait for the pet to get CC’d before using BW, instead of using it to put out some pressure (and what if they in turn prefer to wait for BW to happen first to get free CC). Even if we break one CC with BW, more will surely be applied to the pet when people see it go big and red, effectively rendering BW mostly useless. MC is not the solution, as it does not work for all forms of CC and you probably needed that for yourself anyway.
Admittedly I’m not the biggest pro pvp-wise, so please prove me wrong (seriously, please do as this is just depressing).
WTB edit button: After reading that it might seem that I’d be claiming to be the biggest pro pve-wise, which is also not the case. :p
Use the glyph of mend pet which gives the spell a 50% chance per tick to remove a magic/disease/curse/poison effect.
This glyph makes a huge difference cuz a lot of cc will be dispelled 1 or 2 seconds after being applied to the pet this way.
I you keep up mend pet that is, and i usually do anyway cuz the pets just get gobaled if you don’t ;p .
Anyway I’m using that glyph and i don’t really fear the “pet is no longer immume to cc thing”. I feel that glyph is the biggest pvp damage increase for BM hunters anyway.