The whole episode is very worrying. Epic battle stones first appeared in the WoD beta files. We gave them substantial feedback at that time that epic stones were a terrible idea, and they didn't implement them. The reasons we gave were exactly the reasons that Kaivax cited in this most recent post. ...

And this, too. Someone can ask 999k for a Purple Puffer but I'm pretty sure it's not going to sell. Another issue is that the market has shrunk considerably. In MoP I competed with 10+ pet sellers on KJ, now I've stopped and there's only 1 consistent seller with high-end pets the last time I checke...

Yes, they're clearly unfinished and placeholder-ish. They may not even make it into the final release. But there's not much else to get excited about so I'm reading into a bit.

Edit #2: Perculia found some new dailies that reward Pet Charms. There's 9 tamers: 8 plus Master Wyrmy. And there's currently 24 tamer pets that fit into 3-pet fights, plus Wyrmy who is likely a solo pet fight. So it's very consistent with there being 8 regular tamer fights plus Wyrmy as the intro ...

These kind of pets are likely to change I hope? Sunny is a copypaste of Farmer Nishi's pet / Singing Sunflower. Possible. But it's also ok if not every tamer pet is innovative and new. There's 2 other pets to help make the fight distinct from Nishi. And also there needs to be some more basic entry-...

Here's a full list with abilities at a glance, including tamer pets: [url=http://legion.wowhead.com/petspecies?filter=cr=4;crs=7;crv=0#petspecies]http://legion.wowhead.com/petspecies?filter=cr=4;crs=7;crv=0#petspecies[/url]. You can switch to gallery to see the models. It should update with each new...

Round 1- RI to Graves Round 2- Bonestorm Round 3- Consume Round 4- Grave Destruction Round 5- Consume Round 6- Bonestorm Round 7- Consume, finally CD locked on all three abilities Round 8- Swap to Murkalot Round 9- RI to MPD 1 - RI 2 - Bonestorm = 501 dmg to each pet (1503 total) 3 - Consume = 200 ...

RI into Grave Destruction is going be max ae dmg quickly but then you are pretty much locking yourself into passing one round with GD, Bonestorm and Consumption all being on CD. Bonestorm is higher damage than Grave Destruction, assuming it hits 3 pets. Let's assume Graves is the worst possible bre...

Hoo boy, I can see it already, RI > Grave Destruction and then most likely at least 2 bonestorms before you can take it out, looks like fun times ahead. I can't say I'm very glad to see AoE comps get even more love :? Or maybe turn 1: RI turn 2: Bonestorm turn 3: Consume turn 4: Grave Destruction t...

I'm hoping it's just a flavour of the month kind of thing... I'm sure some people will stick with this strategy for quite sometime, but hopefully a strong counter will surface that can deal with either the undead and the mechanical cleave teams. As it stands right now, the 3 best pets coming in 6.1...

The PTR/beta forum is up now, but it is not accessible via the pulldown menu at the top of the page (Community->Forums-> ).

LOL My thoughts too. More predictable outcomes, less crit dependant? Yes, but more predictable is actually bad in this case. For example if your guy has 1400 health and I have 260 power then I KO you in 5 turns with Punch. But if I have 253 power then it takes 6 turns. Whereas before this small dif...

I will just link the [url=http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/15699787759]wow forum post[/url]. There has been a large influx of Hatesparks across various US AHs this weekend, many from lvl 1 sellers who are also selling known dupe targets (cub, EST etc). Many of these sellers also have HS Darkm...

Luciandk wrote:Grave Destruction

This is now attached to something called [url=http://ptr.wowhead.com/npc=91226/my-special-pet]'My Special Pet'[/url], which has the same base stats as ZZ02 and a slightly different but still very interesting moveset.

While I think that's possible, since it is the first build and only the gargoyle (granted, possibly K'ute as well) has any new abilities makes me think that there might be other new abilities that are planned but not in yet. Well, consider that WoD release had maybe 5 new abilities, and those pets ...

Since only the Gargoyle got new abilities so far, I would think that these are going to get changed a bit with new unique abilities (though the 3 fragments seem to be specifically different and somewhat fit their phases, so those might not change). All of them have unique movesets: I really wouldn'...

Was people really struggling that much with pet batles? If you mean struggling to stay awake while killing icespine hatchlings over and over, then I was definitely struggling. There's nothing challenging or difficult about grinding wild pet battles. This is definitely a good change. It should never...

SS is the best possible breed for this. It could be a fairly aggravating force-swap pet (probably Flamethrower/Cauterize/Inferno Herding), and actually speed makes almost all of its movesets pretty good. The only trouble is at 325 it will still get outsped (or more often tied nowadays).

I see, thank you. The 11th hour Von Feasel change made Syd's behavior more consistent, Yes, this was especially noticeable with the spirit tamers too. They seem to be pushing more and more toward a puzzle type of game, where once you solve it, it's consistently solved by the same strat every time af...

They really needed a toning down. ... The whole Achievement is entirely for not-your-average-battle-pet player anyway, I think it's exactly where it needs to be. That's fine, I was just hoping for specifics, to get some insight into their design process. I don't think Trunks should be a super tough...