Comments on: PTR 2.3.0: Pet Leveling

By: Huntard

Huntard — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:43:24 +0000

You have to revive your dead pet and abandon or stable before taming another..

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:15:52 +0000

During a milieu will Quilboar my pet died after two others boar and a wolf decided to attack too. I am trying to tame a new pet but I am constantly told I have too many pets, I try to dismiss te pet but get told I cannot do that as my pet is dead. Is there a cooling off period where taming will fail?

Please advise.

My apologies if this has arrived at the wrong inbox.

Stephen Clarke (Ithlaine)

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:15:31 +0000

I can’t follow the second example – there must be a typo somewhere, or the conclusion just doesn’t make sense.

Hunter: 29; Pet: 23; Mob: 23; Pet XP: 189
Hunter: 29; Pet: 23; Mob: 29; Pet XP: 209

(29*5) + 45 = 190 ~ 189 (OK, that makes sense)
189*(1+(0.05*2)) = 209 (that’s a level difference of 2, not 6)

Even taking the (level+4) XP cap into account, it still can’t be as simple as suggested (or else there’s a typo somewhere).

By: sandralover

sandralover — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:24:38 +0000

thanks for the info on firewing point i shall have to try that place

as an added thought i created a draenei hunter on the test realm and levelled a level 2 boar , and just for reference i created a dwarf hunter went to the ne area and did tamed the same level boar now i know it may be a racial difference but the test realm boar got to level well before the dwarfs did , something like half a level earlier for me

so i am guessing the extra exp in the next patch will at least help lower level hunters get their pet up to speed/level

my favourite farming though at 67 is the ravagers/warpstalkers/basilisks all for leather+food to sell or use , i guess i do not mind a little melee at times with lower level pets as long as i do not die all the time

By: Shinryu Masaki

Shinryu Masaki — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:27:04 +0000

Firewing Point is a very good place, but it does get annoying a lot when players come there to quests, even if it is briefly. If no one goes there for their quests, you get a good free ride for pet leveling. If lots of people start coming in to quest, you better take a slight break from the place.

Nothing more annoying to be in the middle of a fight only to see someone blow up the mana bomb in the center of town and see all blood elves die from it, even the one you’re fighting, which means you get 0 xp.

By: Replicant

Replicant — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:42:04 +0000

the best place for a lvl 70 to lvl up a critter is firewing point in terrokar north of alerian stronghold the mobs are almost all castes and will never run into melee (making kills quicker) alkso they’re in a big circle (convenient eh) and respawn is good tons of greens netherweave and firewing signets which i can sell for almost 1g per ive leveled a lvl 7 lynx from BE start area and a humar using this method there is no faster place hope this helps

By: GreenArmadillo

GreenArmadillo — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:54:06 +0000

I’ve already managed to outpace my hunter alt’s only pet (tamed at level 10) by two levels on the current live build – the character in question levels solely by duoing group quests with my girlfriend’s druid, and she isn’t on that much, so in practice this means the hunter is ALWAYS getting rested exp and relatively large quantities of quest exp. It’s doubly aggravating because I can’t just go out and grind without simultaneously leveling the hunter (which defeats the purpose of having a separate character meant to be leveled together), but spell resist mechanics prevent my pet from tanking anything more than 2 levels above it (i.e. anything even a single level above me, which means no even-conned quests). I’m really hoping the 2.3 changes help a bit, because at the moment I’m stumped. :(

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By: cgeorgemo

cgeorgemo — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:26:37 +0000

@Sasquatcha

That would also be a really good Gold sink for Blizzard to implement.

Although I expect that it would be more than 1g per level also.

By: sandralover

sandralover — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:51:21 +0000

hehe .

now Sasquatcha has a neat idea but knowing what would happen with a NPC that could level pets i would bet it would be a lot more than 1g a level , but we can always hope the ” gods ” at some point make life more interesting as a hunter , i guess we hunters have all got higher then thought about low level pets , i for one have tried and for around 25+ pet levels tried to level a spider from bloodmyst in tanaris , in the end i was so bored of melee i gave up trying