From the Test Realm forums:
"Growl was scaling incorrectly before so it's been changed to scale with the hunter's AP starting at around 1200 AP. Other pet abilities such as bite, claw, etc will still scale with pet AP. "
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5973994474&sid=1&pageNo=1#9
Ehehe, sorry about that.
I'm still holding out judging the changes until some of the theorycrafters get on the PTR and get us some numbers. I might transfer over and do some number-digging myself, see what my pet's Growl seems to generate at different levels of RATP (by turning TSA and Hawk off, removing gear, etc.) and gauge (really roughly) how much threat it holds off (by using Distracting Shot as a good baseline).
We'll see. I do not have enough faith in Blizzard to say that this isn't a nerf.
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Ok, a few things....
1) It probably is a nerf, but not a big one.
2) The bigger thing is that it might change the balance of solo spec from BM to MM, depending on how it plays out. Big AP for more damage and more pet aggro?. win for MM.
3) This (along with the S4 changes) makes low AP pvp gear less desirable for pve. Gonna see less hunters in arenas for sure.
Hunter pet threat-generation is really something that needs to be looked at; I'm at a point right now where I can pull from a traditionally-high-threat-generating pet (an owl for example) with a single crit. Makes farming kinda difficult. But I guess that's what I get for always going into super-hardcore-raidboss-mode on those poor elementals >.>
Definitely looking forward to your numbers if you decide to go test it!
Yeah, same here, Pike, but again, I treat everything like I'm DPSing down Ragnaros to try and score our first kill. :3
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