I’m at the point where I ride the pet to “get him in place” to growl. That or [rush dog] to an enemy “in the middle” then growl. In fact, I believe making hunter skills “rideable” will fix a lot of issues.
Negotiate this for me pls @STAFF_Max @STAFF_Letitia. Rideable hunter skills.
Heheh, a moving Growling is the thing I’ve most craved. since carve world tree is superior to growling,the pet is so easy to take out making growling way less reliable, if growling were to have the “move around” thing going for it would be sweet.
Rush dog, coursing, retrieve. All of them are also unreliable with the pathfanding this game has, I take you’ve already noticed the pet sometimes stare at an enemy right infront of it without enacting the skill.
They should of made them teleport to the target with a 1 second animation, the pet did not need to have an AI. Of course things would of need to be rebalance like a way to dispell hunter skills if such a thing were to have happened, hunter was briefly thought in a designers mind, he began designing it and a dog with a puffy tail went through the office making hunter be what it is now.
IMC programers could just change 1 line and make Coursing work on bosses only as DOT (without CC).
you know of the addon Mount 'er good?
when you try mounting a growling pet, it moves the pet to your location but most of the time, like around 70-90% of the time, you can’t mount the pet, but it continues to growl hence achieving a pseudo mobile growling. Repeated press of mount button will mount you though and make the pet stop growling
I do not use any addons, I’m a very very paranoid individual, so unless I gave myself the time to review the code I wouldn’t use something that I’ve no official communication medium.
Also, would probably wreck my already beloved play style ;p
just thought it would help. I’d share all i know about hunters for fellow hunters 
Well, thank you anyway.
I long for the day hunter is made useful as the support it is supposed to be.
I wonder what will happen to my beloved rushdog the day stats are switched. Weapons will increase their damage, the formula will change and it will also change companion’s stats.
Will rush dog remain as 2.5 pet atk, what will happen? will hunter keep outdamaging my red icon falconer?
Praise will finally be turned into a % thing along with pointing?
Will defense decrease from coursing & retrieve be % aswell?
So many questions…
Yet I’ve only one demand: ALLOW ME TO SWITCH BOTH OF MY COMPANIONS GEAR WITHOUT GOING TO THE LODGE.
This is very good info
Ok, I decided to break down the skill choices for cannoneer and their dps vs burst potential in ktest numbers.
[cannon shot] or [shootdown]
116.8 - 174.4 dps
584 - 872 burst
[siege burst]
114.14 - 170.57 dps
799 - 1194 burst
[cannon blast]
68.8 - 102.8 dps
1720 - 2570 burst
[cannon barrage]
89.09 - 114 dps
2940 - 3762 burst
I want to add [bazooka] to this list, but I don’t know how it is calculated at all. Since cannons don’t have an off-hand attack (via “c”) I don’t know how to even guess [bazooka]'s damage.
Max lv [cannon shot] and [shoot down] will cost a lot of SP (dunno if pots alone can sustain it. Right now it’s on par with [running shot] + [bazooka] at “free” sp cost. The only vids I could find are from Bong Tos but he doesn’t use [bazooka] at all 
What’s frustrating is he is a a2-qs3-app-cannon2 but he didn’t even try [running shot] + [bazooka].
Weeeeeee edit
Plugging in values in the formula from here with an average of 2581.5 2ndary atk
damage = (779%) x 2581.5 x 1 + (0) = 20109.885 which is roughly the same in the video’s lv1 [siege burst]
Pluging in skill factor for lv1 and lv10 [cannon shot] we get 15075.96 at lv1 and 22510 at lv10. Lv50 attributes puts that at 18844.95 at lv1 and 28138.35 at lv10. [bazooka]'s 50% should push it further to 28267.425 at lv1 and 42206.25 at lv 10.
Video shows roughly 1 AA per sec in [bazooka] so ~30k means ~150k AA damage and ~28k to ~42k [shoot down] damage per 5 sec.
Seems you can skip [cannon shot] and [shoot down] if you are a Qs3.
Ok, definitely taking rogue2 on my cannoneer.