Growl's threat...Follow

I wouldn't expect such a big difference and don't even know if this applies, but lower level characters generate more threat per damage (or healing), so it could work the same way with taunts (not the taunt level, but the pet level).

I'll be checking back in here to see what others say.

Did you make sure that you had all the same buffs when you tested that? Growl scales with AP, so if you didn't have aspect of the hawk on for one pet, or ate a ravager dog or another, you'd come up with differences.

I think Growl 8 sacrifices threat generated for reduced chance of a resist compared to Growl 7.

I just tamed a ravager and had to come back and be amazed.

My new level 63 ravager with level 1 loyalty does just as much damage as my level 70 cat, and I CAN'T pull aggro off of it. It generates threat twice as fast. If a level 70 cat can't generate as much threat as a level 63 ravager, something is broken.

North, that's just because survival sucks for solo grinding. It's good in other places, but solo grinding as a SV hunter is like healing as a shadow priest.

Even as a BM I do more TPS with auto-shot than my boar does.

The only thing that keeps him in front of me is that massive threat spike from charge->growl. Oh yeah, like a 62 hunter is going to jump over 4k threat in the first half-second of combat. I have to spam distracting, or the battle has to last longer than a minute, to steal aggro.

Probably a bad idea, to try to give advice to you, but if you're just solo-farming, why don't you get some threat reducing equipment? The sporereggar cape, some of the potions from the same guy, the hypnotist's watch.. I dunno about you, but I'd rather get a few easy items than go for a full respec just to farm.

Edited, Dec 9th 2007 11:58am by Ehcks

Yes, it will allow him to hold aggro if I crit enough. Even with high crit (I am near 30% unbuffed) I can't count on my crit providing enough focus for Claw in addition to Growl. And if I don't have Claw active and crit, Growl isn't enough to hold aggro.

I know this is expected, and known. But it is a serious problem at times.

Please keep us updated on this experiment!

I played BM from 10-70 and for a good 6 months after i hit level-cap and was enjoying the quests/5-mans/pvp... everything actually. I found it much easier to just intimidate right off the bat to hold aggro, or to throw it in while the mob was running at me just so i could laugh at him from 10 yrds away instead of 38 (or whatever the max is)... Held aggro just fine and it doing an easy auto-steady routine was fine by me (i read the quest scripts to keep myself entertained).

Turned SV and it's a whole new game. Everything is like pvp... dps them before they get to me or else im gonna be kiting and keeping my jump-shot skills up to par... to tell you the truth, i didn't bother learning jump-shot till i turned SV.. Q or E and doing fat circles was good enough in all situations. I dont bother teaching new pets growl, and usually turn it off so they can help me dps. I even forget to send the pretty little kitty before i start seeing those nice big 4-digit whites and yellows. Not a problem.. Just imagine the pet is a succubus...

Side note 1: fighting 3-4 71 mobs in skettis is sooooo much fun. i usually grab 2 arrakoa (or whatever) and just wait for a giant bird to swoop down on my trap.

Side note 2: Throwing a wyvern on a hunter that thinks they are safe 40 yrds away from the fight is fun. And throwing up deterence and sticking close to a Red-BM hunter (wasting their precious "I WIN" button) is twice as fun, especially since i can trap/sting/bandage and then take them out... So much more active and annoying to other hunters. I used to think i was invincible as a BM, and now i see how wrong i was.. just didnt play the experienced players enough.

boar = win for soloing :)