Call of the wild discussion

[Skyforge1]

As all good hunters know Call of the wild is one of major cooldowns DPS wise for all specs, Im going to be honest here and admit i dont read up a whole lot on my class other than the basics and i couldnt find an answer anywhere on the fourms so i figured i would make my own post asking.

Lets assume you are on a Baradin Hold type boss fight, Where your only goal is to pump out as much DPS as you can, Your group has every single buff possible so it does not matter what pet you decide to bring to the raid, Once Call of the wild is over is it worth dismissing your pet (2 seconds of no DPS) to bring out another and popping Call of the wild once again? (I suppose with a total of 5 pets you could do it 5 times)

[Koen]

They share CD if I am not mistaken. It would obviously be OP if you could chain up 5 Call of the Wild just so you can almost immediately do the same thing over again.

[Skyforge1]

Unless its a bug, they dont share a CD, I've been testing it on the dummies

[Seveer3]

They dont share a CD and yes this would work i myself sometimes call another pet out to use its CotW especially if my pet had despawned due to range etc (sometimes happens on atremedies), wether or not it would be an increase on a short fight like BH i dont know but it probably wouldnt be as much of a loss if you was to do it whilst in the 66/33% phase trandition when dps is lowerr than usual anyway.

[Skyforge1]

Yeah, I might start using it on fights at those moments where your not pulling optimal DPS, or when im unable to to hit the target on fights like Ascendant council when i have the rod and the boss is out of range

[Kennpai]

Hmm, Going to have to try this.

[Ferledon]

Yes you can do it, but keep in consideration if you'r being asked to use a specific pet for a buff. Aside from that, yeah, its chainable. I do it quite a bit.

Pop it at the start of a fight, @ 40% dismiss and grab another ferocity pet, 35% dismiss and pull out a cunning pet.

[Night Wind]

Hmmm never though of that! It seems like DPS increase and the 2sec cast for dismiss makes it not be insanely OP. NICE IDEA!!!!... but ill have to test this out!

[Dunee]

hmm I'm going to have to test this out @ tomorrows raid I guess it's all about timing really you don't wanna delay an explosive shot for too long so i reckon you can do it @60 or so focus just after explosive shot with no BA refreshing nearby..

or as MM just after chimera and doublesteady refresh

[glo]

Don't even dismiss it. Tell your pet to run to the farthest point you can find, and keep dpsing away until it despawns. Then call out the next one. I've done it a few times on atramedes.

[Rilancio]

OMFg i haven't thought of that lol.Nice to know.I will try on dummies.
BUT
For sure ,blizard will fix this bug

[Spl4sh3r]

Thought we could only use one pet per fight, or atleast that is what Blizzard intended. So when you start doing this it would be fixed quicker

[Nuadu]

Since I guess I've never tried before, never really needed to try before....you can dismiss while in combat?

[Algore]

Don't count on it being fixed, you have been able to do this since patch 4.0.1

[Gravebound]

Since I guess I've never tried before, never really needed to try before....you can dismiss while in combat?

Apparently. I didn't know either, this might be interesting I'm quite sure Blizzard will at least take a look at these mechanics, sometime..

[Nuadu]

I am sure people smarter than me will (or have) test this, but in the time it takes to dismiss (hoping your 2sec cast isnt interrupted or pushed back by raid dmg), summon a new pet, lose most of the pet raid buffs, will the loss of your high dmg dealing shots during that time outweigh the benefit gained by another 20seconds of +10%AP? Each time you do this your losing auto shots, a couple cobra shots, and possibly pushing back ES if it doesn't go smoothly. Just curious to see what others have come up with.

[Shotbang]

I am sure people smarter than me will (or have) test this, but in the time it takes to dismiss (hoping your 2sec cast isnt interrupted or pushed back by raid dmg), summon a new pet, lose most of the pet raid buffs, will the loss of your high dmg dealing shots during that time outweigh the benefit gained by another 20seconds of +10%AP? Each time you do this your losing auto shots, a couple cobra shots, and possibly pushing back ES if it doesn't go smoothly. Just curious to see what others have come up with.

Pets don't get buffed, just saying.

[Nuadu]

Ok then replace that line with "possibly losing the raid buff your pet was bringing". In 25 mans it probably won't be a huge deal but in ten mans it could hurt the raid overall.

Thanks for the reminder.

[Deleted]

Players have been doing this for quite a while in arena. Not just Call of the Wild either. I guess hunter representation in arena is low enough that it took this long in general for other players to notice, haha.

[Asmordean]

2x Call of the Wild might be debatable but I can see the value of swapping to a cunning pet just before 35% if CotW is on cooldown. I'm going to have to try that.