Comments on: RFC: What’s the Weakest Leveling Pet?

By: Marc-Andre

Marc-Andre — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:03:30 +0000

I know alot of you guys find these pets horible but I like dragonhwaks, birds of preys and moths alot. I also like wolves while I lvled (I’m lvl 80) The pet I hate the most is spider for there horrible sound they make. I also hate them in real life so that doesn’t help either.

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:43:26 +0000

Of the ferocity pets (only pet tree I do) I have to say tallstrider. But for new ppl I suggest u get a cat or a wolf I love my wolf the rare named Snarler i’m ganna get a new cat soon then Skoll Loqu’nahak then in patch 3.3 get the spirit bear. The new spirit beast :)

By: Adrastosz

Adrastosz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:27:20 +0000

My choice of a pet is, brace yourself, a moth. I rarely see anyone use them though.
Off course they are ferocity, and with my favorite family skill other then thunder stomp. They got a HoT and att power buff ability, and I noticed that I don’t need to heal him as much as I did a cat or some other pet, which really adds up to the pets and my own survivability.

Second would be tallstriders, I just love them :3

By: Neilaren (Shu'Halo)

Neilaren (Shu'Halo) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:28:51 +0000

I have no good suggestions, as I played back before they overhauled the pet system.

I leveled with a caster dragonhawk, but then switched to Washte Pawne when I could. I loved using a Wind Serpent, because having a ranged attack meant my pet wasn’t likely to run around pulling everything in creation.

I remember when Wind Serpents were up there on the best raiding pets in BC. They were very comparale to raptors and cats. :)

I don’t like spiders, but that’s because I don’t like spiders… I guess I’d have to say to stay away from tallstriders at low levels, their ability probably isn’t the greatest. But it really does depend on preference in the end.

By: Selesti

Selesti — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:37:37 +0000

I must say, as a Marksman spec’d hunter, I pull aggro off just about EVERY pet I’ve had lately. I still love my hydra/croc though I’m trying to level a boar as an alt tanking pet. Cannot STAND gorillas and spiders scare the crap outta me. I may drop my cat though cause it’s still far too common…even with so many people swapping for wolves as raiding pets. I like to try to be different, and I can level with just about any pet I chose to get. I will say most cunning pets seem to have more use in pvp than in soloing/questing. I don’t mind some of the abilities that use more focus because i have decent enough crit with Go for the Throat to regen it right back fairly quickly.

By: Sukulatae

Sukulatae — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:08:07 +0000

Below 40, I’d have to say cunning and tenacity would lose, because you can stop feeding ferocity pets sooner. With all families having a focus dump and no regen talents dps output is pretty much the same since you only have a few talent points. In lower level instances flappy things would also lose, due to targeting issues and a lack of experience with tab and the assorted fun that comes with it.

By: Palladiamors

Palladiamors — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:09:12 +0000

Oh your missing out. Not quite so much in lower levels, but cunning pets can be a ton of fun. Wolverine bite and owls focus are two of the best pet talents anywhere. On the negative side though, carrion eater isn’t passive like the other two tree’s happiness restoration, and their up front damage can’t match ferocity, obviously.

By: Edrawr

Edrawr — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:16:15 +0000

Personally, I feel that any pet that has a situational move (disarm, cast interrupt) on a long cooldown is pretty useless.

I know bears are probably fantastic, I just can’t get past their standing “animation”. The bottom jaw just looks too freaking weird and it irks the crap out of me. Pretty silly reason to not get a bear, I’m sure, but I just can’t help it.

I have always always always loved boars. One, I love pigs irl; secondly, I think for tenacity pets, they do a good deal of damage and I have never had a problem with my little boars holding aggro. Even at low levels, I think they make awesome pets. Plus, they eat anything, and have tons of different colors to choose from even at low levels. I’ve used boars for as long as I can remember, back in the day when we had to tame weird critters in the middle of nowhere just to learn the next level of bite, and back when I farmed Mist Howler for several hours because of his quick attack speed. :P

I also love my carrion bird. He does great damage which helps him keep aggro, and the AoE shriek is nice for picking up initial threat. The wings don’t really get in my way except for the other night when I was trying to pick up a quest item from the floor, but after a slight turn of the camera I got it. Just a tiny little annoyance in an otherwise fantastic pet.

So my personal top two picks are boars and carrion birds. I don’t even mess with the cunning tree.

By: Snowtiger

Snowtiger — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:56:54 +0000

Grrrr sorry working on my laptop typing and typos lol

By: Snowtiger

Snowtiger — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:55:11 +0000

Well when I leveled My hunter along time ago I tamed every beast i could for the skills of course so i tamed all that wqas possible too!! Well I was disapointed with the tallstriders even back then so my vote is Tallstriders but have never tamed or wanted a moth..Well i have started another hunter and have him hooked up with a boar and the boars is doing a great job holding aggro I domiss the old charge tho that ac
tually stunn the target for a couple sec with my 80 when i leveled the last 10levels I had a rhino and had a blast with him until blizz ruined his stampede. It was funnier then hell to see the target/targets fly and he did excellent to keep the aggro!!! but now they ruined the rhino cause people comeplain about stampede but let the shamans and druids keep thier similar talent for AoEbut rhino tojust one target!! Any way sorry for the rant so I say for low levels tallstriders worst and Boar best they eat anything LOL