Patch 3.0 FAQ - Index
Important: The information on this page was written for Patch 3.0, the patch that immediately proceeded the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.
This page has not been updated, so the information here may no longer be accurate and current in every detail.
However, Patch 3.0 contained such sweeping changes that this information can still be very helpful for returning players. That's why it's still here ... with this warning.
- What has changed with pet skills?
- What do you mean Beast Training, training points, and loyalty no longer exist?
- So how do I train my pet?
- Does that mean I can use all my pets slot for real pets?
- What skills does a pet know when it's first tamed?
- What are the focus dump skills?
- What are the unique family skills?
- Does this affect existing pets also?
- My pet knows both Bite and Claw! Will it lose one?
- Will my ravager still know Gore? Will my bat or owl still know Screech?
- If boars get Gore, what happened to Charge?
- Will my pet still know Dash or Dive?
- What about the old passive skills?
- So all pets get all the resistances?
- Do pet skills still have ranks?
- Is each pet still limited to four active skills?
- I tamed a pet and it has no skills! What happened?
- How do I turn off my pet's skills?
- That doesn't work! My pet won't stop Prowling and Cowering!
- Why does Cower trigger every time Growl does?!
- Is something wrong with Growl? My pet can't keep aggro.
- What are pet talents?
- Hunters have three talent trees to choose from -- do pets?
- Which family gets which tree?
- How are the three trees different?
- Okay, but what is each tree good for?
- How are pet talents different from pet skills?
- How are pet talents like pet skills?
- How do pets earn talent points? How many do they get?
- Do you get more talent points if you level up the pet yourself?
- Okay, but how do I actually pick my pet's talents?
- Can you respec your pet?
- What does it cost to respec your pet?
- Do you have a pet talent calculator?
- How do you use pet talents in combat?
- Do pet talents go on the pet action bar or on the hunter's action bars?
- Has the pet action bar gotten any bigger?
- But I can have more than four active abilities, right?
- So where do I put those extra active abilities?
- What is the auto-cast priority for skills and talents?
- Has Blizzard done anything to make focus management easier?
- Why does my pet attack when I do?
- What's this about "exotic" pets?
- What does that mean?
- What are exotic pets?
- What happens if I respec?
- Are exotic pets better than non-exotic pets?
- What are the exotic pet families?
- Do I have to be a certain level to tame an exotic pet?
- How do I tell if a pet is exotic?
- Any new pet families?
- Any new pet models or appearances?
- What happened to the Owl family?
- Are Dire Ravens considered carrion birds or birds of prey?
- Why don't the new pets come with any skills?
- My cat used to be white but now it has stripes! What happened?
- Has Blizzard made it easier to level a pet?
- Pets auto-level now? What happens if I tame a low-level pet?
- Does that go for existing pets too? What about stabled pets?
- So I can store an unused pet in the stable and it will keep up with me?
- Does the auto-leveled pet get all the right skills? Does it get all its talent points?
- What about those last five levels? What about keeping a pet even with me as I level?
- Have they added any stable slots?
- If loyalty no longer exists, can my pet still run away?
- Has anything changed with happiness or feeding my pet?
- Do I still have to feed my pet?
- How about diet? Any changes there?
