Maethis

I was under the impression that "progressive vanilla" implied that in order to down bosses you needed a full raid of level 60s in appropriate gear and enchants. If the only raids out are Molten Core and Onyxia then there should be guilds that are mid-way through molten core, yet it seems that any guild that can field a raid of even 20 can clear it. There is no point in being a "progressive" server if the population itself does not struggle to progress, it is simply a "staged release" gimmick, and i'd be fine with that - but be honest about what it is. If BWL is tuned to the same "spec" that MC is then the only real danger of raid wiping is going to be shadowflame from lack of ony cloaks, but since you don't need to even field a full raid of 40 it wouldn't last long. It seems there are two camps as mentioned before - people who want "blizzlike" numbers for 1.12, and people who believed that a progressive server was going to give the "vanilla experience" regardless of client version. Personally, i agree that the best balance would be a blizzlike implementation of player abilities native to the client (1.12) and adjusting boss hitpoints and damage output to match. But, i came here to get away from welfare epics and "easy normal mode" raiding that has ruined retail wow for me.

I'm currently playing a hunter whose pet appears to be working fine, however i understand i may be in the minority. The pet i'm currently using is a wolf i trained in Elwynn Forest outside of Goldshire, if that makes any difference. When i initially obtained the pet he did not have growl or claw available. However, opening the spellbook to the general tab and going to beast training opens the menu for spending your pet's "talent" points, growl and claw were available free and immediately to me. I had not seen any mention of doing this in the thread so far so i thought it might be worth a mention. He growls, holds aggro, attacks and returns as i command. That said i am having a problem with my pet bar disappearing randomly, requiring me to dismiss then resummon my pet to get it to reappear however i've been attributing that to my bartender addon rather than an issue with the server, since i've found display bugs to be generally client side, especially when addons and a scripting engine are involved and i had not disabled it to see if the default UI was doing the same thing.