Comments on: New Pet? You Have 30 Minutes to Feed It

By: Mania’s Arcania » Observations on Losing Loyalty

Mania’s Arcania » Observations on Losing Loyalty — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:48:01 +0000

[...] newly tamed pet starts at the top of loyalty level 1, which means that you always have 30 minutes before it runs [...]

By: Mania

Mania — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:00:46 +0000

First thing to try is using the Call Pet skill. That will either call your pet back or give you a useful error message. If it says your pet is dead, then you need to cast Revive Pet. If it says you don’t have a pet to summon, then it may be that your pet ran away. Normally it wouldn’t do that if it’s been fed, but perhaps something weird has happened. So at that point I would try relogging and then casting Call Pet again — relogging will sometimes fix little weirdnesses. If you still can’t call your pet, you might try contacting a GM and seeing if they can help.

By: Steve Lauff

Steve Lauff — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:31:42 +0000

Mania;

While in a battle my tiger left me. The tool bar vanished also. Does this mean it abandoned me. I had just fed it and it’s bar was still smiling. How do I get it back or can I?

Thanks

By: Mania

Mania — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:46:16 +0000

Dmouse: The best advice I have for you is to look at it in terms of experience. Kill level 66′s for, say, 10 minutes and see how much XP your pet makes, then try it with level 70′s and compare. It really depends a lot on how fast you can kill each level (including downtime in between).

And that’s interesting about being mounted in the areana. I hadn’t heard that.

By: Dmouse

Dmouse — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:58:15 +0000

Hi all,
Just want to ask, basically i realised that when lvling a pet at from lvl 30 to lvl 70, its much better to kill mobs at lvl 66 or so. The lvl’s are much faster that way, But if i just trained a pet at lvl 69 , Should i be killing 70′s or just the usual 66′s ? And how long will it take to get that pet to 70 at a contant rate of killing a 70 or a 66. Reason being 70′s take longer, and 66′s take shorter time. Which means if i kill 1 – 70 mobs i can end up killing 2- 66 mobs.

Sorry i am still a noob after playing a hunter for over a year now. Still learning about new things about hunters and their pets that sometimes amazes me.
I also realised that when mounted in Arena, your pet doesn’t dissappear. Dmouse

By: Jayhawk

Jayhawk — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:42:28 +0000

Nice work. :)

I just noticed the insta-heal after running away myself. Useful if you’re being chased.

By: Mania

Mania — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:16:26 +0000

Ah, that one is easy, Someone. :> Your pet won’t gain Training Points until it’s loyalty is at least level 2 (because the formula for Training Points includes the term (Loyalty Level – 1), so at a loyalty of 1 you are multiplying by 0). So to gain Training Points, you need to get your loyalty up, and to get your loyalty up you must feed your pet.

By: Someone

Someone — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:55:47 +0000

Awesome work!

Now all I need to know more is what controls a new pet TPs! If I don’t feed a new pet, will it still gain new TPs as I fight with it?

By: Mania

Mania — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:07:54 +0000

Gazmik: Your theory about pets being summoned with only their base health makes logical sense, but unfortunately doesn’t quite fit the data I was seeing on the PTR. What I saw was this: I dismiss a cat with full health (say 5000). I summon him back immediately, and he has 3000 health. I dismiss him again immediately and summon him again: 1800 health. One more dismiss and recall: 1080 health. At this point Spirit Bond’s ability to heal catches up with my ability to dimiss him fast and I can’t get him much lower.

On the other hand, I just retested this on the live servers and I am not seeing this behavior. On the live world, my cat won’t go lower than about 88% of his health when he is called, which fits the base health theory pretty well. So perhaps this is a change or a bug on the PTR.

I’ll retest on the PTR when it comes back up. It’s a fairly minor thing at any rate (so long as you don’t dismiss and recall your pet multiple times per minute right before diving into a fight!) It is useful for dumping a pet’s health in a hurry to test Mend Pet, but I suspect I am the only one who cares about that. :>

By: Gazmik Fizzwidget

Gazmik Fizzwidget — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:18:59 +0000

I’d bet the “heal a tick later” thing is a result of pet stats (in this case Stamina) being modified by your own (and/or possibly also the Great Stamina pet skill and the Endurance Training talent). So he spawns at 100% of his health but with his base stamina, and then the modified stats kick in and he regens up to the new 100% (faster with Spirit Bond).

My hunter, er, friend has been using the “Pet EXP Info Bar” addon recently as he trains up a boar (and curses about the L70 boars in SMV being untameable demons). I’ve noticed thanks to it refreshing a little slower than the default PetPaperDollFrame (well, and not hiding some of the stats in tooltips) that this issue also applies to other stats — it shows a 2.0 attack speed briefly, and then the Serpent’s Swiftness kicks in and lowers it to 1.67 (or further if the pet also has Cobra Reflexes).