Raid Pet: Utility Pet - which (bird or wolf) ?!Follow

Yes it can be applied to bosses.



Not really, both a pretty mediocre abilities in raids. Screechs damage reduction is not going to be a major impact on the damage your tank takes. The actual numbers may show that it does help, but the tank is still going to be hit hard, and it won't be noticeable to the tank(except if you have parsers or something to show the data).

Same thing with furious howl. The AP increase on one attack isn't that great. It won't show a major increase in damage output.

Now if I had to choose between the two, it would be Furious Howl, because it benefits the whole group, where screech only really benefits the Tank.



You can have both Demo and Screech cast on a mob at the same time.


With those questions out of the way. Neither ability are all that great in any raid. If you are going for the best pet for raids(overall as you put it), and are not concerned about going for look and feel. Then get a ravager. They are the highest DPS pet, and in a raid, Pets are basically an extra DoT. As such, you would want the DoT that does the most amount of damage, and that my friend is the Ravager.

I have a DPS pet, but thanks all the same - for the other answers.

Honestly I use a Wind Serpent for raiding as we almost always have mana busquits in our raid.

(someone always brings like a whole table worth to the raid from a guildy that can make it.)

I just take 2-3 stacks 1 for my pet 2 for me and I am good to go. It makes it convenient as your pet might die a lot like my wind serpent does do to the resists that I put on it in leu or Armor or health.

I keep a stack of normal bread for my Serpent just in case no one brings the yummy mage food.

Also the wind Serpent is the only one that when needed I can pull without risk to our party or myself =D

Just eye of the beast fly over to target we want to scout out. Oh hey he's alone. Lightning breath, make sure only one is incoming and then if that's the case cancel Eye of the Beast and bring the single back to the tank where s/he promptly takes it off my pet with just 1 hit.

So for all around utility I would either get a Wind Serpent or a Cat to be honest as Prowl is a nice scouting tool as well for instances your party might not know that well.

Edited, Jan 16th 2008 12:30pm by HitashLevat

@ skribs

"I'd just stick with the cat for raiding"

I do. It's my first.


@ all

Thanks for the answers.

It doesn't seem that there is yet a significant enough pet to overtake my current first and second choices.

I'll try some others and then see what happens in the expansion.

Thanks.

What makes you say that? Cats and Ravagers have the same base damage (+10%), can both learn Bite, and both have a focus dump ability... It's just that the focus dump ability on the ravager is better because it has a 50% chance to do double damage.

So I guess you can say that it's spotty in places... But I wouldn't call it spotty. I call it more spike damage.

screech is best vs melee heavy groups of mobs, not so common in raids, furious howl hasnt been updated since BC and isnt good anymore.
Just go with a ravager.... utility from your pets isnt needed in raids.

I wasn't sure what to say, it does seem to spike more than a cat, and by all means, I'm not saying cats are better than ravagers, its just what I prefer.

I really like Wolves. I like having one with my character. WHich is why it pains me to say the best thing I can say about them in terms of functionality is; there's nothing wrong with them.

Furious Howl is seriously underpowered (It really needed a new rank in TBC, if it doesn't get on in WotLK, you can pretty much consider Wolves extinct from WoW) and, while I like my wolf a lot and when I eventually get him to 70, I'll prolly take the little guy into raids, there'll be a part of me that's kinda sad at all that focus going to waste as there's no focus dump.

Screech is nothing short of awesome in a solo pet, but nothing to write home about in raids. It's also worth pointing out a lot of tanks hate birds.

Fo for a 3rd raid pet, I'd recommend a Ravager or, if you have the crit for it, a Wind Serpent.

Ravagers profit as much from GftT as Windserpents until you crit more then once each 3 seconds... over the entire fight.

Besides, Ravagers look fugly...

If only I could get claw or gore on my giant pink bird of death.
*heavy theatrically sigh*

I’ve tried using a ravager on several occasions, I even gave one a name I really liked, but I’ve just never been able to bond with one.

There probably is a point, but if you assume a 1:1.5 shot rotation on a 2.26 attack speed, that comes out to a shot every 0.904 seconds. Take your crit % (maybe 35-40%) and you should get a crit every 2.5-3.0 seconds, assuming it follows a pattern rather than proc. As it is you may get 3 crits in a row, followed by 6 seconds of no crits. Ravagers are slower but steadier in their focus dump, allowing more time for a crit to happen.