well, I gave up (sorta)Follow

A while back, I tamed the Ghost Saber - at level 62. I thought it would be a fun project to level her up. Ha. I was crazy.

I got her to 43, needed to pick up my main wolf for an instance run, and somehow never got around to picking her back up again. I finally faced the fact that I wasn't going to have the patience to get her all the way up, but I wanted a dpsing animal for serious runs. I checked petopia and came across Sian-Rotam. White cat, to honor my ghost saber, with a strong white mane reminecent of my wolf.

After hanging about in Thunderbluff for a while on a temporary alt, I made friends with a Belf hunter. By the way, I take back everything mean I ever said about blood elves. I don't care how skinny they are :). This guy bent over backwards to help me tame my lion. Found all the prereqs and went through the whole questline for me. Didn't even want to take a tip until I insisted.

Now I have a magnificent white lion by my side. I know the grind from 60-70 will still be difficult, but it seems much more attainable. And he is so beautiful.

Maybe this would be a good time to experiment with respeccing to survival. . .

If you do a lot of instances, take your pet in. The low level pet will have the same aggro radius as you, so unless you need the pet to tank (unlikely), it's all easy exp for leveling your lowbie pet.

Ah! I love the Ghost Saber. On my allied toon, I hit 55 or so and wanted to go back and get one. I think I got to 40 or so with it and thought if I have to level it one more time I'm gonna cry! When I rerolled horde, I hit 20 and went and grabbed one while at Zoram anyway. At least once a week someone asks me about it.

Do yourself a favour- don't do this if your pet is too low to do appropriate DPS while you shoot. You can get a low-level pet and level it by solo-farming mobs if you want, or duoing with someone who knows and accepts that you're leveling your pet. Don't be the guy who perpetuates the Huntard stereotype by showing up to instances with a pet that couldn't fight a rabbit, much less an Elite mob your level (unless, as with the duoing idea, you have the approval of everyone in your group). By going into an instance with a significantly underleveled pet, you gimp yourself, you gimp your ability to OT if you need to, and you gimp your group. You also give the impression that you don't have much regard for the rest of the group as well.

Perhaps it's just a pet peeve of mine (no pun intended, honest!), but I cringe when I hear stories of someone taking their level 40 cat into Auchindon with a PUG. We have enough people perpetuating the Huntard stereotype, and the more we as a class do to break that stereotype, the better.

I am going to pick apart our dear sages advice ever so thoroughly




Ok, you cannot solo farm with a level 9 pet, so that theory wont work (if your level 70( or you would have to have a **** ton of mana and health pots and be spending WAAAAY too much time)) Also, who gives a **** your leveling a pet? Take em with anyways.




Another issue, in outlands a Hunters pet CANNOT OT. Despite what anybody thinks, Pets have not scaled the same the hunters have, Pets CANNOT OT without some SERIOUSLY geared up or bored healer.

Pets are an oversized DOT, who gives a **** if you show up with low level pets? I do it all the time and have never heard second of it, most of the time I get complimented on the fact I am taking the time to do it.



You know, as many things as I have heard about Huntards, low level pets is not one of them. Do me a favor and **** off before you spout your self righteous *********

Why tame a cat?
cats suck anyway.
Go carrion Bird! (or for dps a ravager or scorpid)

It'll be a pretty damn short CC, about 5-10 seconds.
Then your pet will have received a couple of 5k hits and dies.

That is the reason I ask groups if they mind i have a lower level pet.
Unless its a guildrun and we're stupidly overgeared for the instance anyway.

Why ask? I never had and it's your dollar, not theirs.

That's where you and I differ, Caldone. It may be your dollar to play the game, but they've paid theirs as well. I'm of the mind that you can play however you want when you solo, and you have the right to tell others how you want to play. However, when you join a group, you're interacting with four (or nine, or fourteen, etc.) others who have also paid the same amount of money to play how they want. If a Druid wishes to play Feral and never heal, he's within his right to do so. If a Warrior only wants to DPS and never tank, he can. If a Hunter wants to trap and melee, it's his right. However, if the individual's playstyle hinders the group, it's the group's right to say they don't want that kind of role in their group.

It may be your $15 a month to play how you want, but their collective $60 a month can decide they don't want to group with someone who plays with a selfish attitude.

I still fail to see how tking a lower level pet hinders a group.

Maybe because I am MM for the reason of, I do not have to rely on my pet for damage...

I don't know what % of your damage you can attribute to your pet if you are MM. I would guess it would be at least 10% though, which is a fairly considerable amount. If you are BM of course, it's a lost higher, closer to 25-30%.

I think bringing a low level pet along to an instance is a very viable strategy. I would tell the group members, just to be courteous, and so they understand why my pet is just sitting there.

Most outlands instances are fairly easy once you have been fighting through them for a while, due to better gear and experience. So while I would be gimping my dps due to not bringing my high level pet, it would not seriously impact the group. Most people will probably not have a problem, but I think it is good to at least let them know.