Give pets a AoE threat gen

[Rtas]

Consider how tanky a boar can get with BM. at level 27, my pig is sporting 41% damage reduction. down the line can we get some sort of AoE threat gen for pets to have? Would be big funne having hunter pets tanking dungeons full on, instead of using them to soak damage from adds or to keep something going after the healer occupied

[Lane157]

I would make Screech have a lower CD for carrion birds only so it's established as their proper family ability. Bats and owls could get other stuff to compensate such as shadow life leech on Bite/a new ability or a silence for bats and a disarm for owls. This way carrion birds would have a proper niche of AoE threat.

Reducing the CD of the gorilla's Thunderstomp and increasing the aggro generation could also be an option to have more than one AoE tanking-focused family. Crab Bubble Barrier could be given additional aggro generation for such purposes, too.

[Enko]

Pet can still hold threat by tabbing and hitting each mob. I think they didn’t want to add that to make bm hunter too easy

[Rtas]

I would make Screech have a lower CD for carrion birds only so it's established as their proper family ability. Bats and owls could get other stuff to compensate such as shadow life leech on Bite/a new ability or a silence for bats and a disarm for owls. This way carrion birds would have a proper niche of AoE threat.

Reducing the CD of the gorilla's Thunderstomp and increasing the aggro generation could also be an option to have more than one AoE tanking-focused family. Crab Bubble Barrier could be given additional aggro generation for such purposes, too.

nah, that fucks with PvP. the idea I have is more an AoE version of mocking blow for pets. low damage, but generates a high amount of threat in an area around the pet. No other effects that could boil over into PvP and cause problems there. reducing CD on moves thing like Thunderclap and whatnot that do have some PvP application could do some pretty funne stuff, but I'd rather not potentially make issues on the PvP side.

[Lanrien]

The hunter pet can already effectively tank 3 mobs (maybe 4) while you kill 1 by 1, having a skill that effectively allows you to spam volley/multi shot and aoe farm would be quite strong.

I understand mages, paladins can do this already, especially since intro of vampirism, but i'm on the fence as it would allow too much "free farm" for little to no risk for the hunter.

Again, I'd LOVE it, but not sure how balanced it would be.
Just a thought, I'm really on the fence about it.

[Rtas]

The hunter pet can already effectively tank 3 mobs (maybe 4) while you kill 1 by 1, having a skill that effectively allows you to spam volley/multi shot and aoe farm would be quite strong.

I understand mages, paladins can do this already, especially since intro of vampirism, but i'm on the fence as it would allow too much "free farm" for little to no risk for the hunter.

Again, I'd LOVE it, but not sure how balanced it would be.
Just a thought, I'm really on the fence about it.

It's already an effective tank, just a way of generating an AoE threat would be helpful. a skill a pet can learn like growl that is functionally a mocking blow (low damage, high threat gen) in a small AoE. THis way we're not touching existing skills and possibly making them more of an ass to deal with in PvP. It'd have SOME application as the damage pushback would be viable against healers. but if we gave it say growl's CD. I don't find it being THAT spammable an issue

As for "free farm", I dunno. still at the mercy of needing the pet to LIVE the tanking experience.

[Indiefalco64]

Consider how tanky a boar can get with BM. at level 27, my pig is sporting 41% damage reduction. down the line can we get some sort of AoE threat gen for pets to have? Would be big funne having hunter pets tanking dungeons full on, instead of using them to soak damage from adds or to keep something going after the healer occupied

Owls/Birds with Screech already do a great job of this. Debuff lasts 4 seconds, cooldown 4 seconds, aoe damage equal to roughly a normal damage swing on a 2.0 attack speed.

[Rtas]

Consider how tanky a boar can get with BM. at level 27, my pig is sporting 41% damage reduction. down the line can we get some sort of AoE threat gen for pets to have? Would be big funne having hunter pets tanking dungeons full on, instead of using them to soak damage from adds or to keep something going after the healer occupied

Owls/Birds with Screech already do a great job of this. Debuff lasts 4 seconds, cooldown 4 seconds, aoe damage equal to roughly a normal damage swing on a 2.0 attack speed.

yeah but we're talking about giving all pets a means of an AoE Pet gen and not just one specific family that isn't that tanky, even with the current BM as it is.