EVERY QUESTION ANSWERED HEREFollow

No, that would have been the T-Rex from Ungoro Crater, and it is not tameable. You can get a smaller raptor however from Barrens, STV or a few other zones. Takk the Leaper, a black raptor in Barrens has a nice fast intercept speed (not as fast as he used to be, but still fastest of all the raptors).

Many other elite animals ARE tameable, however they revert after taming to default stats for their family, so there is no real advantage to taming an elite except the thrill of the challenge. Only intercept and attack speeds vary within a family (with exception of Lupos, and caster-stat windserpents), and faster speeds are even more common on regular pets than on elites/rares.

Also, for the poster who wanted to compare various hunter gear and it's impact on DPS, you might check out Duskwalker's Hunter Item Comparison, it only lets you compare two otems at a time but perhaps may be useful. It also gives links to some very indepth discussions on gear and DPS.


Edited, Tue Nov 1 13:34:42 2005 by brashendeavors

basically we are when they nerfed the sting. When we could drain mana no matter thier form hunter>druid. But now we hurt bad, the way we win is if they run, assuming you are quick to react and such as they will shift out of snares, you just gotta be ready for it and such. Dont forget your scatter shot tho. Basically you could go for the melee, if they switch to bear form then get away from them. Last I checked they cant shift out of traps, jsut cuncussive and such. So you gotta do the trap+aimed shot+trap+aimed shot +dots, make sure you get your pet on them too.

Fixed. Ty.

Please tell me you're trolling.

Feign Death is a level 30 skill you can get from the hunter trainer.

Thanks i only have....6 levels to go though.

Actually it is a bit of a myth that the best pets are elites and rares. All pets default to a base set of stats for their family when tamed, two exceptions to this being pet attack amd pet intercept speeds.

While a few very "famous" exceptional pets are indeed Rares or Elites, such as Broken Tooth or the SFK Slavering Worg, their unusual attributes are just as likely to occur in a common spawn animal -- ZG Bat is neither Rare nor Elite and has the same 1.0 attack speed as BT, and 1.2 attack speeds are very easy to find among such common spawns as Starving Mountain Lion or Swamp Jaguar. The vast majority of elite/rare spawns have identical stats to the rest of their family after taming. While there isn't a common spawn wolf with 1.2 speed, the most famous wolf of all, the AV Frostwolf, is neither Elite nor Rare.

Lupos is somewhat an exception to this as he is the ONLY spawn with shadow damage, but that is being removed in 1.9. Pet pursuit speeds, one of the other areas where pets can differ from base family stats when tamed, are also being standardized in 1.9, and pet atack speeds are likely not far behind.

King Bangalash is often cited as an exceptional pet, however that is based entirely on a speed advantage that he lost well over six month ago -- today he has the exact same stats and abilities after taming as a basic Mountain Lion cat.

Thanks for the incredibly helpful post.

I'm just starting out and kindof learning as I go... I wish I'd read this a few days ago, before I made my first character a Hunter. It might have saved me a little aggrivation, and maybe I'd have thought twice about killing The Rake when he caught me questing in Mulgore.

great guide very helpfull. level 43 and still learned alot

Some of this will not be accurate until level 60, and I'm doing this off the top of my head, so it might not be accurate at all! =p


Ranged attack power (RAP) = Agi*2 + AP_from_items + 100 (I think?)
Crit rate = Agi/53 + Crit_from_items + Crit_from_talents

Basic "white" DPS, aka tooltip = (RAP/14 + Weapon_DPS + Ammo_DPS) / (1 + Quiver_Haste/100), multiplied by Ranged Weapon Spec bonus

Autoshot DPS with crits = Previous line * (1 + crit_rate * Mortal_Shots), where Mortal_Shots is 1 for no points and 1.3 for max.

Multishot DPS = (Autoshot DPS * Modified Weapon Delay + 120) / 10...or however many seconds it takes you to reshoot it.

Aimed Shot DPS = (Autoshot DPS * Mod Wep Dly + 600) / 9...or however long your reshoot time is.

Serpent Sting DPS = 32.7, * 1.1 for Improved Serpent Sting


Total personal DPS = Autoshot DPS + Multishot DPS + Aimed Shot DPS + Serpent Sting DPS. Obviously this does not include the pet.

Truly get rid of forever? Right-click on the pet's portait and choose "abandon".

Awesome thread, very informative. One thing, I use FD alot in PvP as my pet is attacking. It makes them auto-target my pet and gives me a couple seconds of no attacks. Not much, but every little bit helps sometimes. Now a pet question, or an obsevation rather. I tamed one of the Jaguaro Stalkers(lv50) in STV for the Cower 5 and Prowl 3. I checked it's atk ratings: 144-175 dmg, 2.00 atk spd, 79.8 dps. That was while it was happy and with TS Aura+75. Just last night I tamed a Frostsaber Cub(lv56) for Cower 6. I know, WTF is Cower for anyway? I just like to have the option if they ever do come up w/ a use. It's atk ratings: 85-104 dmg, 1.50 atk spd, 62.9 dps. I double checked it's happiness, and made sure my Trueshot was active. Everything was the same as when I checked the lv50 cat's ratings. Has anyone ever noticed anything like this, both the same type of pet, but one w/ much more dps. I mean, what would the Stalkers dps be @ 56 if it was that much more than a lv 56's at lv 50? Maybe it's due to the fact it was a Frostsaber "Cub", but a cat is supposed to be a cat. I'm going to check the dps of a regular Frostsabre @ lv 56. Just something I noticed.

Once again, great job on the thread.







Edited, Tue Dec 27 10:36:38 2005 by chancam

OMG CLAIMED!

Edit: oops, early.

Edited, Wed Dec 28 11:53:19 2005 by Azuarc