Comments on: Choosing Your First Pet

By: Etona

Etona — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:23:54 +0000

I know many people state that some of the best starter pets (and pets overall) are boars, but god help me, I can’t stand their squealing. Though I love the thought of having Charge and Gore on the same pet, along with a great diet, I cannot bring myself to own a boar for very long (I’ve tried many times).
I’m a very aesthetic person as well. I consider the look of the boar (and their mis-timed/placed animations) to be not pleasing at all to look at and watch. It drives me insane how they slide on the ground after attacking due to poor animation. >.<

Picky, picky me. Guess I’ll stick with my Rak’shiri. ^_^

By: Halewyn

Halewyn — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:13:10 +0000

For a level 10 pet you can’t beat putting some effort in to get the rare skin, for example a red skinned lynx for an alliance character or the white bears for a horde character

By: Bonamassa

Bonamassa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:52:05 +0000

Of course i started with an owl from the nightelf homeland, but later i learned that there are possibilities to learn from other pets. So i tamed an owl in Felwood (yes it took me that long). And am quit content with it. I like howitsflies together with my companion owl. And the dive attack it makes :)However, sometimes you want something new, so I tamed a netherray in Zangarmarsh. Beautiful, but, being a casterclass pet, it didn’t do much. Even after leveling it to 70. Nowadays i use it when i go to town: it looks good and there you don’t need it’s skills.

Naming my pets: since i “stole” my charactername from a reallife guitarplayer (Bonamassa) i give my pets the names of guitars: Fender (the netherray), Gibson (the first owl) and Takamine (the second owl, from Nagrand).

No use to anyone i think.

By: Mikeoneal

Mikeoneal — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:27:34 +0000

Can’t go wrong with the high attack pets like cats and raptors. Tho back in the day and not sure if it still stands to this day but AV frostwolves were incredible mount chasers, able to overtake an epic mount, add in intimidation and theyre screwed.

By: nite

nite — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:08:34 +0000

I hade a dragonhawk for ages and its fire breath could hold multiple mobs then one day after patch she was no where to be found
lol posted to gm nothing they could do

so i tamed grunter the rare boar and the white lion from the hord q hade a horde m8 :) for raiding i use the lion and grinding the boar
because of its awsome threat gen

so for me both are good

Was wondering what is a good pet for pvp?
was thinking of a scorpid for its poision and claw abilitys
any pvp hunters have any advice?

By: Mikeoneal

Mikeoneal — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:02:02 +0000

I’ve shared my views on boars in otehr sections, so i want to add something new here. I want to see some changes in the creatures in the game. I’m 70 relying mainly on my Wintersaber pridewatcher with back ups of my raptor and wolf from Blades Edge, but irl I’m a herpetologist in training and i’ve always felt slightly shafted when it comes to my selection of pets.

For those of us who played Old Wow should know the only reptiles in the game were turtles and crocs (refuse to consider wind serpents reptiles) and while some will disagree i always felt turtles were useless and crocs didnt have enough to make them worth while. then to my excitement they finally added the snakes of ZG and such, but there only good skill was to spit at people?! wtf. Not to mention they were fairly weak and had a horrible habbit of not surviving even simple encounters.

So what I’d like to see is an upgrade to my scaley friends. An improved bite for snakes with a poison effect maybe, or the ability to camoflage. A more powerful bite for crocs seing as they have some of the largest bite pressures in the animal kingdom, and maybe a tail lashing stun with some damage and a decent cooldown and a bonus to swim speed would be interesting. I’d really like to see a lizard class of Beast like that of Monitor lizards or Komodo Dragons, with a tail lash like that of the croc, maybe use claw as well, and Dash would be cool, but in all fairness would make it HUGELY overpowered.

By: Cryptography

Cryptography — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:28:27 +0000

Boars with charge are AMAZING pets. I’ve recently been levelling a few hunter alts and using the omen threat meter. A level 10 cat will generally have 60-80 threat after its initial set of attacks where a boar with a successful charge will have 360-380. Without charge its similar to the cat, 60-80. Bellygrub, just freshly tamed at level 24 will routinely generate 1.1k threat. Such high threat means you can just hammer all your ranged attacks as fast as possible without much chance of stealing aggro from your pig. Its easy diet and decent stats, along with the focus dump gore skill all add weight to the argument.

Do yourself a favour - get a piggy!

By: Mania’s Arcania » Choosing Your First Pet: Azuremyst Isle

Mania’s Arcania » Choosing Your First Pet: Azuremyst Isle — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:25:29 +0000

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By: December Links

December Links — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:07:04 +0000

[...] geared towards newbie Hunters, but I think even veteran players will enjoy reading it. Part One - Choosing Your First Pet Part Two - Durotar Part Three - Teldrassil Part Four - [...]

By: Fiain

Fiain — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:45:11 +0000

Teldrassil, check. Durotar, check. Mulgore, check. Dun Morogh..?? Everyone knows dwarven hunters are the best. Stone form and find treasure ftw!