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Different types of pets like different kinds of food. Experiment and play around with things until you find something your pet loves. I highly recommend cooking if you're a hunter.

Your pet can gain abilities too! The most important is Growl, which makes the pet appear more threatening to your foes. This allows you to increase the damage you deal to the enemy while keeping the monster's attention focused on your pet. This is the essence of all hunter tactics, so work on it and get good at it.

There are pet trainers in certain areas. Forgive me for not knowing their exact locations, but trust me that they do exist. You can go to these trainers and pay gold to teach the pet abilities, just like you do for yourself.

As a general rule: you can do as much damage to the monster as your pet does without drawing hate away from it and on to you. The monster attacks whoever he hates the most, and the first component of monster hate ("aggro") is damage. So long as your pet does the teensiest bit more damage to the monster than you, it'll attack the pet. Growl changes this: it greatly increases the damage you can do without bringing the enemies to you. Learn it, love it.

im a level 28 NE Hunter and have a snow leopard so cooking isnt really required. he loves any type of meat which includes fish :)

Make sure you finish all the tasks given by your Hunter Trainer, that was a painful lesson of running back and forth for me. To train you pet with abilities, open your spell boko and click on the slingshot looking icon, from there you can select the abilities you wish to train. You should see Growl 1 and 2. These are not like normal abilities, you don't have to teach the pet rank 1 to teach it rank 2 (or so I've been told)

There are 3 other abilities in game at end of OB, Claw, Bite and Cower. You tame other beasts to learn these, from the pet info tab you should see what new abilities you can learn from the new beast. once you have manually commanded it to perform that task a few times you should learn how to train it. This is really handy if you have one pet you are attached to and want to keep it throughout your career you can just keep picking up new abilities to give it.


also, Arcane shot is useable while moving, handy to know if you need to get a running start from a mob before pulling it.

My 2 cents.

My favorite solo method was to send pet, as pet was running lay a trap (fire or immolation) then start shooting it leading off w/ serpent sting. As soon as pet turns to you fire concussion and any other additional abilities (arcane, multi, etc). W/ the NElf high Crit rate I could drop mobs 2-3 levels higher than me w/o getting hit.

BTW, your pet gains HP a lot faster than you do so let it take the hits. Pet usually had full life after 7-8 ticks. At least for NElf, pet can tank a lot better than you, plus you can heal it.

Me (NElf Hunter 20): Hp: 460, Def: 500
Pet (Cat): Hp: 500, Def 860

Made it up to level 30 on OB. Few things i've found out.

*Growl is a taunt. Upgrade it as soon as it's available. I usually let my pet pig get a few hits in first if dealing with stronger mobs.
*Tame anything you can. I have a main pet, my pig, but then periodically I would stable him and go tame anything I could find and hunt with it for awhile. There are more abilities then the other 3 that were listed ..Growl, Charge, Claw, Swoop, Cower and I believe there are more..I got charge off of a elder dire boar, claw off of a crag, cower off the plainstrider's outside XR and swoop off of a Thunderhawk.
*Use Disengage - if a mob gets on you there's no faster way to get it off you. If you miss/fail the first attempt, don't run around just stay there and wait for it to recharge and do it again.
*Use Feign Death - EVEN BETTER then disengage is feing death. Clears you from aggro list, it's aweseom. I had NO RESS EFFECTS when using this like it said..so yeah, it's the bomb!!!. This is the ULTIMATE for separating pulls. you Tag a mob after you've laid down an ice trap. The mob hits that, you feign, adds walk away..you stand back up and pull that sucker.
*You pet is the deciding factor in PvP when in dungeons/small areas. I just ran around like a mad fool getting in hits where I could and using a heal potion while my pet tore em up..if it stunned em and i culd get a few shots in..great.
*Outside...wingclip/ice trap and i've killed players 2 levles higher then me. Hardest class I had to fight was a priest..yeah..undead priest..always hard. Easist class - rogues. Slaughtered them.
*I carry two bows with me at all times. In the longer dungeons you will probably break you main bow..then you want that second..trust me on this. I would also carry around extra ammo..even more hten your quiver holds..my quiver culd hold 2000 arrows ..and I had another 5 slots filled with arrows just incase.
*Carry food and milk (mana replinsher) ..it will help you level faster and not die so much..plus if your pet will eat bread, it's food for it too!
*Make sure you have atleast a few mana and health potions for emmergencies. It's well worth it! Get an add or spawn..or untimly PvP..can save your butt.
*SAVE MONEY!!!! You skills start getting REAL expensive. Was 80 silver a pop at 80th level, 70 prior to that. You get new skills every two levels.
*Up your agility. Effects not only your damage but your crit. Get that with the Imp. Crit talents (up to 5%) and the one where you cause more dmg! and you can start critting for over 500 on aimed shots!
*Save an aimed shot and/or concussion shot for when the mob is low on life if it flees. Don't need it running into a pack of 4 other mobs. Makes you look smart too if grouped ;P
*Rest/Logout in Inns - when you log back in you will get a temp EXP bonus to stuff you kill. I've had mine get as high as 50%!
*Never attack anything that is 4 or more levels higher then you alone! There's something coded into it that makes those mobs VERY hard to hit for you. 3 or lower is preferable. Hunters are very STRONG solo classes as I was able to kill 30th level GOLD EILTE mobs at 29th level. Just don't get to crazy.