The fact that she has another 110 and it happens to be a hunter was stated by her in follow up posts in the initial post she made. She's NOT a new player. She's a freakin noobish idiot who doesn't understand basic functions of the hunter class which she already has a 110 of. She doesn't understand about growl. She doesn't understand about pet agro. She doesn't understand about pet specs. Hell she doesn't even know that not all the pet spells aren't automatically on the pet toolbar which means if she does have a ferocity pet she does't have heart of the phoenix on her bars.
Just think, the group passed up the perfect opportunity to actually help out a player that so many bitch and whine about on forums. I guess actually helping is much to ask from the whiners.
I can confirm, pet spells aren't put on toolbar anymore. If you respec them or tame a new one it's even empty.
And growl and other "auto-cast" toggles can't be controlled via the normal action bar either, so you either gotta open spellbook or add it on pet bar, and that's not communicated in game at all.
This looks more like a case of someone using a boost and not knowing how to do anything with their class than anything to do with hunters.
And even if she got to 110 the old fashioned way....it's pretty easy to get to 110 and never need to learn much about how aggro or your pet works, everything is pretty auto-pilot for you.
Hopefully she joins one of those family friendly guilds who will help her learn the game, god knows random people in this game never will.
Last edited by Vlaid; 2018-03-19 at 08:02 PM.
I feel so badly for that person. Growl usually isn't put onto the pet bar by default. A new player probably has no idea that it even EXISTS, let alone what it does, and let alone understanding why it needs to be turned off in your first ever dungeon run. The game does nothing to teach you any of this. It does nothing even to teach you about pet specs, or that when you finally get around to changing a pet's spec, the same abilities won't show up on the bar, EVEN IF the pet still has those abilities.
My girlfriend semi-recently began playing WoW, having virtually no background in video games of any kind, and it became very obvious very quickly that hunter is NOT the class for someone in that sort of situation. Pet management is already an added strain, plus the way that it's handled on hunter tends to be very difficult for new and inexperienced players.
If you come across a person like the one described by OP, please whisper them with specific and gentle instructions. They've probably never been taught - not by any other player, and certainly not by the game.
Haha! Wow...ok.
My entire post can be summed up as this: Random people are random.
If she didn't want to risk being treated poorly by strangers, then that's what guildies and friends are for. She didn't do that, and risked dealing with strangers. The result? She had a bad experience. That's not a reason to give up on the game. Just go back and vent to your friends and guildies, and ask them for help. That's what THEY'RE for.
Assuming and EXPECTING the general public(especially in a videogame) to be friendly and nice for no reason just isn't being realistic. It's not fair, but it's how things are.
Maybe I should clarify on this matter. She said a few comments down that this was NOT her first hunter. It was a lower level alt on a different server and that she had other 110s including a 110 hunter (not boosted). The fact that she has another hunter at max level and doesn't even grasp how pets have specs or spellbooks is what annoys the fuck out of me and several other people in that post she made AND the people that were in her group.
People really should be held responsible for learning the basics of their class before wasting the time of others. Not to mention that if something as small as this sends you into a "nervous breakdown" you really should not play video games with strangers who might trigger you and instead should focus on sorting your shit out. Of course in the age of the internet it's always easier to find a support group and throw a pity-party than do that
Ok, I'm an idiot, I learned things slow, but I have never been this bad... I really don't know how you could not have accidentally found these things across MULTIPLE characters.
I'm not a proponent of games beating you across the face on how to use what's pretty much basic knowledge, but I guess there needs to be more 'learn this shit pls'... Maybe I don't even remember if the lower levels tells you how to do this.
Also, excuse me for potentially being insensitive but...this triggered PTSD?
Also this. At least then if she complained, booting her would be her own fault for a) not learning and b) refusing to do so.
Edit: Initial shock gone; why is this about hunters as a class as opposed to just people being stupid...? Might as well have been a warlock...
Last edited by Halyon; 2018-03-20 at 01:33 AM.
This is a Blizzard Activision made issue for allowing people to hit cap far too easily and not learn their class.
No, it isn't. You could level from now and until 5 years have passed and still be on the same skill level as a brick. Idiocy + stubborness is a powerful thing.
- - - Updated - - -
Stuff doesn't have to be harder. But it clearly needs to be more instructive.
The other players from her group probably didn't know that growl isn't on the pet bar by default or that pets have spellbooks either. A friend of mine that has been playing a DK and a warlock for months decided to try a vold elf hunter told me people kept pming him to disable growl but he didn't have it on his pet skillbar ( like the lady ) and how he kept calling the tanks noobs for losing aggroh to him lol.
Pets won't be able to swap specs in BfA. Every pet species has an assigned spec and stays in it. There is no longer a "dps tax" on Tenacity and Cunning pets, but all Ferocity pets have Bloodlust/Heroism baseline now, so you lose access to that by using, for example, a turtle or a bear. The new hunter in the OP would still be taunting left and right if she didn't open her spellbook and turn off Growl with that turtle.