Filed under: Hunter, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Buffs

Ever since it was reported that in 2.4.2, threat generated by Growl would no longer scale with pet attack capability, Hunters have been trying to figure out what that means. Will it only scale with Hunter attack potential? Is there any way to get Growl’s threat up? Just what is the relationship amoung the threat generated by Growl and the stats listed on both Hunter and pet? The Mystic Hunter has been working to try and figure things out, but the stats he’s found have actually been more confusing than clarifying — he did a series of tests on the Live server and soon after on the analysis server… and found them to be the same.

Say wha? Mystic found that threat is clearly scaling with Pet AP, and not with Ranged AP (he shot RAP way high using the Core of Ar’kelos and a few other gear pieces, and had no noticeable affect on threat generated by Growl).

So not so fast on that Growl change — whether it is going to be implemented in 2.4.2, it hasn’t been put out there yet (which, considering that the 2.4.2 evaluating is supposed to be nearly over, makes us think it won’t happen that patch at all). Of course, whether the fix doesn’t come out, soon after the original problem is still there. These Growl issues are turning out to be a huge headache for both Hunters and Blizzard.

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Original post by Mike Schramm