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Scorpid poison was nerfed to be about as damaging as a dull butterknife in the last major patch. Sory to break it to ya, I loved em too. :(

At this time, as I am sure you've read on petopia, the ravager is the most single target damage you can get on a pet. You will sacrifice the high armor but in instance situations it's kinda irrelevent in my oppinion. Damage is what gets the job done!

Dun worry...I didn't see the other Ravager post either, so I'll weigh in here.

Ravagers don't seem like very good tanking pets to me. I have a 65 Ravager pet that I'm working towards 70 for a more effective dps torpedo than my Boar in PvE content, and a BM Hunter's ravager pet is a caster's friggin' nightmare in PvP. My 65 Ravager seems to do damage on par with my 70 Boar. I can't really comment on its tanking ability yet, since it's not able to train the last rank of Growl and because it's dps will go up a bit over the next few levels which will also help with threat. I know right now that I have to be very, very careful with threat management if I don't want the mob on me.

Thats why I got mine. It says IM gonna hurt you written all over it. =D

Well said, NorthAI... Well said...

While I agree with your point, there's something to be said for unleashing your Bug of Doomâ„¢ on aggressive into Scarlet Monastery and watching it tear those silly crusaders a new one.

Without your help.

I know Humar can do much the same thing, but it's just doesn't cause the same feeling of sheer glee watching a cat wreak terror on the Armory as it does a pointy, menacing looking ravager. <3

Damnit, racking my brain trying to figure out what that is from!!

A ravager is currently the highest DPS pet available. However their poor armor and health mean they can't take the beating they're bound to bring on themselves. I think of them as the mages of the pet world. They're best on instance runs where they don't need to off-tank much, i.e. a party with a solid warrior or feral druid for tank. Consider training cower on your ravager so it can shed aggro on instance runs and not attract a mob's attention from the tank.

I love my ghost saber also. However I'm finding myself using my carrion bird more on instance runs. The screech debuff and higher armor on the bird is nice.



Edited, Oct 18th 2007 12:29pm by ItsaGaAs

or consider turning off growl. if he still pulls agro then get a new tank

I love my GhostSaber... In fact. I am waiting till I hit 20 on my horde hunter to go pick up one. I also got my wife the GhostSaber until she found out how hard it was to get Humar then all of a sudden she wanted that one too... dang her and wanting hard to obtain pets. =(

I have helped 5 hunters obtain the GhostSaber as it is my favorite pet and I am always glad to see a few people using it. (in my own defense the people I helped get it for was in my guild so I am not just advertising the pet everywhere... I like having a pet that no one else seems to have at lvl 70. Most people ditch the GhostSaber for a Rare of something else it seems.

I did some comparisons a little while back between Scorpids, cats and ravagers to quench my own curiosity about which one is the best DPS pet and why and which one suited me best.

The numbers were found by sending pet to attack and tagging the target with one arrow so I still got credit for the kill, but then just stood there with a fully trained pet (growl, claw/gore, bite and dash, cobra reflexes, happy) all the same lvls (lvl 62) and just had them kill 3-4 targets alone and watched my DPS meter. The DPS kind of speaks for itself, so i'll just post them and let you decide, these numbers are all a range because of crit% and other variables... But remember that this was pre-patch and so the Scorpid data would be different now.

Cat= 105-115
Ravager= 100-120
Scorpid=100-125

So as you can see, from just the 45 minutes I spent checking this out, (as a BM Hunter with my AP around 1000 at the time) that Cats are the worst of the three, Ravagers better and scorpids best. One thing I did notice though was that the Cat's DPS has the smallest range and therefore has a much more dependable/ constant DPS than the other two.

All numbers aside, i'm with North on this one, Humar is just to badass to give up, I play this game to have fun and part of that is having a pet I like to look at, and Ravagers just look like a pissed off grubworm on steroids, no grace, no pride, just unadulterated ugly.

Speaking of Humar though, North, how's your Humar novella going?



Edited, Oct 18th 2007 5:05pm by Katchii

THANK YOU!!!

I own that movie too >.<

Guess Ill have to watch the hottie again eh?

Talking about the red headed chick, not the dude

I have had a cat, I tested for a lot more than 3-4 mobs. 30 or so sample of same stuff for each pet. Combat conditions, meaning I was range dpsing and had go for throat going as well the bm focus regen talent. Ravager outperformed cat always, and after 30 mobs had a significant dmg total gap. That is why I chose ravager and not blindly went and got ravager because everyone says it's better dps.

Your tests were too short and not under normal combat conditions.

Having said that, cats are still great pets and if I preferred the look of a cat more than ravager I might have kept using cat regardless.

Edited, Oct 18th 2007 6:29pm by Elustriel

Since 2.2 it no longer scales with rap like it used to.