Leveling a low petFollow

I don't think you do understand...

"the pet doesn't gain experience if I don't gain experience"

Equals

"the pet gain experience if I gain experience"

Maybe that makes it clearer.

er, well if you're soloing, it's going to be mana-intensive since your pet probably won't be much help. you have to learn the art of kiting if you're soloing(which i'd rarely do anyways).

option 2: get into an instance.

option 3: get a buddy to watch your butt or partner with to kill mobs faster than you could do alone.

Edited, Jan 6th 2008 11:30pm by Gukagim

heh i was assuming you were fighting green+ con mobs. :)

If you would read carefully, like the other person did, then you would have understood that I was asking whether or not there was a FASTER way to level. I mentioned that grinding on green mobs was still SLOW and MANA INTENSIVE.

And yes, you were being sarcastic. Don't play the self-righteous pseudo-clever ****** and try to cover it up.

Edited, Jan 6th 2008 11:36pm by jihwansays

EDIT: Gukagim, thanks for the ideas. I might as well get some instancing in, anyway.

Edited, Jan 6th 2008 11:37pm by jihwansays

Welcome to the hunter forums, new here?

Your best bet is to instance.

Thanks for the help, fellas.

I'll agree with the other posters that the best way to level up your lowbie pet is to run some instances with him. But if you are running PUG's be sure to let the group know before you start that you are leveling a pet. That way they won't expect your pet to off-tank. I seriously doubt any of the groups will care...but it's better to warn them up front before they see your level 20 kitty running Ramps or something.

Not true at all, you can be an asshat when the asshatery info you post is correct



Hmm so if I turn in a load of quests does does any of that xp go towards my pet? No I don't think it does. tsk tsk tsk.

Another thread in this forum mentioned grinding away at firewing point in Terrokar Forest. The warlocks there typically only used ranged attacks. Also they drop signets, useful for Scryer rep. If you're not working on Scryer reputation yourself, you can trade them for the equivalent Aldor rep tokens.

I've also ground out Consortium rep (beads) and Halaa rep (dust for research tokens) on the ogre warlocks and mages around Halaa and in the northwest corner of Nagrand. However those areas do not contain ranged attack exclusive mobs so a bit of chain trapping and kiting will be necessary.

JimmyDean, my blue armored boar from RFK is up to level 54. Sigh, only 16 more levels to go.



Edited, Jan 7th 2008 12:02pm by ItsaGaAs

Experiencing this myself. Level 53 hunter and I wanted to pick up the armored boar from RFK which is level 26. The hunter takes a beating, but over the weekend with limited play I've managed to get the piggy up to level 32. It's just going to take time and patience I suppose.

Mawler

Hm. DalaranCaine's posts seem to have mysteriously disappeared.

My hunter's alt's only level 57, so I can't yet take advantage of some of the Outlands caster mobs, but I did take that advice by grinding on caster mobs. Worked like a charm.

I also got lots of vendor trash for my epic mount and Runecloth out of it, which helps. Instancing pre-Outlands is hard because no one seems to want to do Strat, Scholo, or BRD anymore. They [myself too, to a certain extent] just want to get to 58 ASAP for l33t Outlands gear.

Which reminds me - is an epic mount even worth getting? Should I just save up the 5k for the flying mount? My Paladin got his epic through his quest so that wasn't a problem for him, but my hunter needs to sink the money.

Do like one of my friends did, got a mage to help him, they just rounded around 15 mobs up and AoE'd the crap out of em.


Edit: Bored enough to go into more detail, the hunter put down an explosive trap, or snake trap, then mage rounds up the mobs and runs over the trap, then froozes them, and AoE's them, and the hunter volleys too, with the pet on passive.


Edited, Jan 8th 2008 10:26am by CyrexBismarck

I did this too at 59 or so to get my boar back after being hacked and the rotten thieves disbanding him :(

It does indeed take time but there are some positives while you're levelling your beloved young pets ;)

*) You can practice kiting the green mobs ;)
*) Grind on rep giving mobs i.e. for Timbermaw, Argent Dawn, Scryer/Aldor etc etc
*) Grind casters as they go down quicker and allow you to shoot'um ;)
*) Grind on mobs that drop something worthwhile i.e. cloth, greens etc etc

**Note** as stated on previous posts - always try and get the lowest lvl mobs that give you xp as this way you lvl slow as possible while pet gets max xp :)

It is possible but does indeed take a long time but get there in end.. running instances where they don't mind your pet tagging along (be sure it stays back so as not to aggro stuff) is quicker but not as much challenge ;)