... Merit to the Boar Crusade!Follow

So this week, I did two things I swore I'd never do... re-roll as a dwarf and tame a boar.

My little dwarf Hefeweizen is only 12 at the moment, and his piggy Barley is 11, but I am having SO much fun! It's amazing how much aggro charge dumps at once, and now this has got me thinking I'll dump one of my pets on my main SV hunter and go for a boar =)

I just thought I'd let you all know that when n00bs ask "wat is t3h b3st p3t?" telling them a boar really isn't a bad option ;) By the way, I miss Iponemagirl! Where'd she go?

I think so, too. I saw her on the Warlock forum not too long ago

i have to agree boars rule

although when i first started i did have a boar to get the skills i never kept it long enough as i was intent on getting first the white cat then a ghost saber , but having recently rolled a new hunter i have had a boar from the start and although i am still taming all pets that i can learn new skills from and am getting them fully loyal and to my level of 33 the boar still rules with agro control and i find it just about impossible once my boar has gained the control to break it , which is not what i can say for bears cats or any birds although the birds with screech do come close

and even though other pets can do more damage , i say who cares its not getting damaged yourself that counts

and to me the biggest bonus i think is almost any mob will drop something edible to boars so you always have pet food in your bags , not like other pets where you can run out of food at times

Fear leads to anger, anger to hate. Hate is the path to the dark side.

I sense in him much fear (of boars). =P

Actually, I do find that from a practicality standpoint a boar makes an excellent pet for a survival or marksman hunter as the threat-spikes can be comparatively high with that of a BM hunter... and charge really does help to generate large amounts of threat fairly quickly.

You're right, there's no 'best' pet, but there are certainly pets that are great for something... and the boar happens to be great at holding aggro when you're critting for 1400 and up repeatedly =P

Yep, I guess I should have qualified that.

I meant that, for solo play, the boar is an excellent choice. While it is lackluster for raiding and dangerous for instances, it is a wonderful solo pet. =)

And by the way, you still rock Aethein!

Note to self: If I ever create a Dwarf Hunter again (not likely), go tame an armored boar at level 29ish.

It effin' BLOWS that there aren't any cool boars above level 30. Undead piggies at level 60, but I don't want an undead piggy! Why aren't there any level 59-60 boars in Outland? Why can't we tame those demon boars? I want one soooo badly.

I'm using a cat right now. I can keep Misha happy with fish, which I fish. It's just that Cholesterol was so much easier to keep around, with his ability to eat anything. Not to mention Gore and Charge are excellent abilities. Still don't like how Claw overrides Growl.

They should make a script that caused your pet to hold back on Claw when the Growl cooldown was up. I think they made it for Gore, because my piggy never missed a Growl with Gore on auto-cast.

I dont fear boars, i like em (besides the fact that there arent any above lvl 60...)
But worshipping them is way more then they deserve.
Boars are excellent solo pets but thats about it, same with ravagers wich are excellent raiding pet and that it.
Although both arent bad in pvp either ;P

The moment I rolled my alt huntress I knew which pets to take, both for looks and for practical use and rarity:

- Ressan the needler (white bat, rare level 11 in Tirisfal) as my damage pet
- Rotting Aga'mar (dark armored boar, elite level 26 in RFK) as my defensive pet

Both unique looks, not many have those (being low level the only ones with these skins you can tame) and both tend to look menacing. Loved every minute so far of having them! (level 31 now)

On both I frequently get nice comments and quite honestly, I think they deserve it.

On topic: boars are awesome defensive pets for solo PVE, but everyone knows that already.

I believe it has something to do with the order you put them in your pet bar. My owl doesn't use Claw over Growl, and until now I thought that was merely because Growl had a lower focus cost. Since others are having issues, they remind me of when I leveled with my cat (this was ages ago though...) and I annoyed myself with Claw going off before Growl. I remember I switched places, and voilà!

In all truth though, owls are the best pets by far. Actually, any pet with Screech will do, but since Carrion Birds don't have the +DPS required (for me to think they're good), and since Bats have Screech as their ONLY focus dump, I reckon owls are superior.
Seriously, do you have any idea how nice it feels to be able to have a Mend Pet ticking on the pet when she has 3 mobs on her, and she doesn't loose aggro?

Don't get me wrong, boar-lovers, I know boars are awesome. I've leveled with them too. When you pick up a pet with AoE aggro abilities (Imo Gorillas don't really count... since you get it once every minute.) however, you understand what you're missing out on. Some would argue that it's unnecessary since FD neutralizes any aggro caused anyway. This isn't my opinion, but I suppose it gives a fair perspective.

All in all (Imo), Owls > Boars.

Happy New Year btw guys! :)

leveled 17-70 with a carrion bird and i'm proud of it.
I've had all but 1 skin of carrion bird (the blue 1 from deadwind pass)




Oh, and i never had the 2 headed black and green one but thats not tameable =(

I made a dwarven hunter on a friend’s server just to mess around with. He tamed a white snow kitty as his first pet, as I’ve never had one as a pet before. But then I posted on this forum about the advantages of having a boar as a first pet for players who had no particular pet preference. That night I ended up putting the snow kitty in the stable and taming black boar. Both hunter and boar are level 21 now and I really have enjoyed his ability to charge up on mobs even when first tamed. And the ease of feeding him has been nice as well.

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Ok, everything about this is "win".