Pets Abilites nerfed?

[Thirstblood]

There are quite some pets out there which abilites got nerfed or swap in slot column.

Pandaren Water Spirit

No longer can whirlpool 3, geyser 2 slot. THey both now are in 3rd slot , can't longer combo with howl and surge power combo.

Thoughts?

Time to find something new :3

[Deleted]

Indeed, that was an intended nerf of Howl Bomb, together with a nerf to Howl itself, and a couple other pets.
Here's the full list:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20742124400#1

And if you're in need of some new strategies for certain fights, I'm in the process of (and almost done with) updating all strategies to work with 7.0.3 on Xu-Fu's Guides: http://wow-petguide.com/ :-)

[darkwarrior42]

There were a few other changes as well.... notably, in conjunction with the changes to the Pandaren Water Spirit, Howl only affects one ability now, so even if you find other abilities you can sync up Howl will only benefit the first in line.

Summary of changes: http://www.warcraftpets.com/news/pet...ion-pre-patch/
Official thread for pet ability tuning and changes: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20742124400#1
(For the official thread, note that a later Blue post details the howl bomb change, not the first post).

*shrug* The loss of the howl bomb is sad but not unexpected.... I already reworked all my old teams for PvE that relied on it to do something else instead. A bit more sad to see the nerf to AoE abilities, but only because I didn't really start playing around with them much until the last month or so.... so little time to enjoy them :-P

[l33t]

Right. Instead of creating more fun synergies between pets, lets nerf the only one existing. Because bruteforcing pve with 3x aoe healing self-shielding crabs is SUCH a fun! (hint: no, it isn't)

[Deleted]

Right. Instead of creating more fun synergies between pets, lets nerf the only one existing. Because bruteforcing pve with 3x aoe healing self-shielding crabs is SUCH a fun! (hint: no, it isn't)

There are synergies, unfortunately none of them stand a ghost of a chance when Howl-Bomb eclipses them all.

[Triptych]

I'm glad about this change.

I always felt guilty/bad that I was neglecting the hundreds of other pets in my collection - but the Howl Bomb combo was just so fast and efficient on so many of the dailies and legendary challenges.

Hopefully this will encourage (aka "force") me to combine pets in new and creative ways!

[ComputerNerd]

Good change.
Unfortunately the variety and quantity will mean there are or will be other such combinations.
I would just hope that we can see adjustments to limit those coming quicker.