New Hunter, question about "rare spawn" pets

[Dave131]

So my question is do rare spawns have better stats or perhaps unique spells or is it mostly just a cosmetic thing to have them? Meaning, they just look a little different.

Thanks for any input

[Tolami]

they have unique spells and abilities

[Dunee]

rare spawn pets merely means one special skin.. basicly if we have the spiders, we will see 3 of the colours common and the fourth as a "rare" one, same goes for the helldoggys.. most likely the only REAL new skin will be a spirit beast, if even.. though one is to hope that I'm wrong.

[Grizzly Willy]

they have unique spells and abilities

That is entirely false.

The whole thing with rare spawns is that they almost always have a unique skin, and I saw almost always because there are some rare beasts with the same model as common ones. However, some of the rare spawns are really worth getting if you want a cool looking pet.

Spirit beasts are a must if you're a BM hunter (and hey, all the cool kids are...), the original Cata rares (Terrorpene, Sambas, Madexx, Ghostcrawler, and Karoma) all have a unique skin that no other mob has, although Sambas and Madexx share the same skin with the Alliance and Horde guild mounts respectively.

[Shirohibiki]

They just have unique skins and are a challenge to find/tame. That's really it. Their spells depend on what family they belong to, like quite a few of them are spirit beasts.

[Imhullu]

Back in the days of learning individual pet skills based on the tamed creature, rares would have higher ranks or skills normally not found on that "species" of beast.

Now its just cosmetics.

[Rainec]

rare pets used to have unique spells, but not any more

im pretty sure one of the cat quest bosses in STV used to be the only pet with cobra strike....and now most pets can learn some variation with the "new" pet talent trees

today, there is only bragging right value and appearance

[Dracono]

I accidentally, stupidly killed maddex while doing Archaeology, not my proudest moment

I'm not a hunter, though my friend is, he was pretty angry...


Though I agree rares should have epic twists..

[Rubidium]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvvNGeHHME

[Skybluesky]

Though I agree rares should have epic twists..

I'm not sure with whom you are agreeing. I will go ahead and guess it is a bad. From a game design perspective, giving special abilities to a rare spawn is a loss. (Mind you, if by 'epic twists' you mean that people have to show skill (beyond camping patience) to get special skins, I could see where you are coming from.)

[Dave131]

So its what I thought, its just cosmetic

Thanks guys <3

[The Last DJ]

Oh, for the misty days when Takk the Leaper was able to chase down and attack mounted players, or if when you had The Rake every caster in the BG shrank away from you because of his attack speed... (Not so much when you constantly had to cycle out new pets to learn new ranks of claw or dash ... and raptors had no family skill and no animations other than run/attack.)

[Syatek92]

No, nothing makes them better than any other better except the cosmetic look.
DPS is normalized throughout all pets. My rare lion Sambas does the same DPS as a wolf I could get in Durotar.
Some pets just look cooler than others

[Minifig]

they have unique spells and abilities

Do you even play a hunter?

Unique pets just mean appearance changes. That's it. Blizzard has standardized our pets to make them all equal, if it's in the cat family, it has cat abilities. If it's in the spirit beast category, it has Spirit beast abilities. The ONLY thing you get is a different look.

[Yosef1015]

They have different skin except for spirit beasts which have a heal ability (that is pretty good) and they are all rare spawns.

[Minifig]

No, nothing makes them better than any other better except the cosmetic look.
DPS is normalized throughout all pets

Hate to say this, but you're wrong as well. DPS isn't normalized through all pets. Some pets do more dps than others, and have different abilities based upon what family of pets they are.

A good example of this?

Glad you asked:



Ang's defensive stats are also higher than Shadow's, innately because he's a turtle.

[Publicyoda]

Im lvling a hunter soley for the new spiders. I gotta say, I'm in love with em. ^^

[Minifig]

That wasn't a good example of anything, unfortunately. Note the bird's health -- it has its baseline stats, not its 85, talented stats.

He was talking about DPS, not health.

[Spoogles]

Pet's do relatively the same DPS but at the moment Ferocity & Cunning pets do slightly more DPS then Tenacity...

Quote - EJ's - http://elitistjerks.com/f74/t110880-...mastery_4_1_a/ (under the pets area)

"All 3 pet types (Ferocity, Tenacity and Cunning) inherit the SAME AP scaling, so the only difference in the potential damage output is the pet TALENTS. That being said, right now, Ferocity and Cunning pets are both close in theoretical damage...."

Quote - hunter's union - http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/...for-cataclysm/ (1st paragraph on pets)

"In Cataclysm our choice of hunter pets is based entirely on WHAT BUFFS OUR RAIDS NEED, since ALL PETS OF ANY GIVEN SPEC DO THE SAME DPS. Despite that, I get asked what the best dps pet is all the time...."

If you need more evidence you can READ!!!!!!! for yourself

[Budokai]

He was talking about DPS, not health.

The point is, that pet had not taken all your stats so ofc it's going to have lower dps.