No pet hunter?Follow

I just had a question for all of you hunters out there.

A while ago, we ran Slabs with this one hunter. Before we started, we all had asked the hunter if they were going to get their pet out. They then proceeded to say that they weren't specced for pets and that they do more damage without one out (apparently 6k+).

Is it normal to have no pet out with hunters? I mean, it was pretty weird to me, and even then, the hunter wasn't at the top of the damage charts with their so-called 6k crits.

Any input would be great.

I would put that hunter on ignore and never ever group with them again. We are all "specced for pets" unless he just didn't do the quest at level 10, which if thats the case, it just reinforces my earlier statement. There is absolutely no way he could hope to do better damage without his pet no matter what he is specced.

no matter where you are as a hunter, your pet is probably always at least 5% of your total dps.


And as a rogue, you wouldnt lets say.. 5% crit go to waste would you? ;P

sounds completely mad to me , but i would love to check her out as 6k+ sounds like epic gear and then some ? , if she can do that them i am going to re-spec from BM

A hunter without a pet is more like a huntard.

Or rather, not a hunter at all.

In addition to all of the above, just think about it logically. Take as an example a Hunter who has spent zero Talents on enhancing their Pet. And then assume that the Hunter fails completely at being able to manage their Pet. They never cast Mend Pet, or pull the Pet out of combat if it's getting killed and let it recover, and they are horribly slow about sending it at a new target after the first target has died.

That Hunter will still do more damage just sending in their Pet at the start of each combat and forgetting about it than the Hunter who doesn't even whistle it up and use it at all.

Sounds like a Huntard to me. We had a long discussion on this earlier and came to the conclusion that not having a pet out is VERY situation specific and should be explained to the group's satisfaction if there are questions on the situation.

Anyone saying they do more damage without a pet out is silly. At very least, they can keep the pet on follow and passive if they feel the pet is a distraction from the situation.

Lol slo, had that discussion earlier, sounds like it happened maybe a few hours ago.

Wasn't that like a month or so ago? Funny how the forum time seems so short, but real life time passes us by.

http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/class.html?wclass=5;mid=1199821255233323645#m1199829590326866821

I took the time to look for it, had some pretty good back and forth going on that one :-P, so read it over if you would like

Edit: I'm assuming this is the discussion Slo is referring to, I could be wrong but I hope I'm not.

Edited, Feb 19th 2008 4:18pm by SynnTastic

SPEC BM OR SV NUB!



heh, had to get that out, where´ve you been you *******?

gratz!

now you can shout at people and get shouted at less?

No, now I get in trouble for the things I do AND what the people under me do :)


And sorry, Never going BM, might go SV if I can ever get the gear before hand, I didn't mind being SV so much.

Thick skull is still kicking *** on the Damage Meters, and after the S3 gladiators stuff :) (first piece will be bought today)

I have this compelling urge to reach through the monitor and strangle you...

Ok, Ill have my 1 year old daughter do it. Cause, you know, you're just the weak