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I got messaged last night by a 55 hunter asking to invite him to Scholo while my wife and I were getting her Pali mount quest done. (fighting that boss at that time)

I told him we were leaving and that he should just quest in a few zones to level up and get some money.

He told me that his pet sucked as it never held aggro. With this I asked him what pet was he using.

He told me he was using a bird. So I asked him the first thing I could think of. Was his Growl and Screech up to date

He asked what screech was and said it was a bird it can't growl... OH NOES!

I /facepalm and went into explaining this to him the functionality of growl and that any pet can learn it. He was like, my pet doesn't have either of them.

I told him to train these to his bird and start doing quests in the crator, eastern plaguelands, or Wintersprings. he told me he did all those quests already and he was still 55. I told him go check again. which apon complaints about his pet not holding aggro on mobs in Hellfire I reminded him of the level difference and also told him not to unload all his abilities on the mob.

He started complaining so I told him I was getting off and logged out.

Sorry about the long story but...

Is it really possible for someone to continue trying to levelall the way to 55 without growl on a pet? To me that just seems rediculous.

Meh... just a story I thought I would share...

Level without growl... level MM... same shit, same taste.

I wouldn't stand it.

I totally agreed, though I thought Utarius' post was funny, then rethought my decision. It should read:
"Leveling Marksman WAS actually still easier than..."
In beginning lvl 70 Epics and the higher Tiers, i'd like to see a MM hunter's pet hold aggro past a boar's initial charge :D

Yeah I made the same mistake up to 20 or so and I wanted to stop playing my hunter as the damn thing wouldn't tell me where to go to train them.

I mean I bought all the skills... Hell I even asked 60s (Pre BC) how to train my pet and they told me I couldn't.

I had the strat guide telling me to learn all these skills but didn't tell me how to train the pet and I almost quit until I found someone actually using growl on their pet and said... That's what I wanted on my pet how do I do that?

I had been playing about 3 days or so by then.

I definately agree that they should explain the pet training a little better. I just don't see as knowing what I delt with all the way to 20 how anyone would be able to stand it all the way to 55.

wow... just wow...

But at least you knew you could train your pet. That was my point. Even I knew I could train my pet... Just couldn't for the life of me find it.

(I overlook things quite frequently... I swear I'd loose my Sunglasses on my head if they weren't sitting on my nose... JK not quite that bad but still)

He didn't have even screech or know what screech was. He was so quick to shoot down growl by going to Hellfire at 55 and say his pet couldn't hold aggro on a Red mob... I said dude chill out and fight something yellow and you'll do fine and growl won't get resisted so much.

On the bright side I'm sure his melee skills were maxed for his level =P

Thankfully I leveled my Hunter with my brother who already had a level 60 hunter. So any noobish questions I had, I could just ask him. I leveled with his shaman, so when he noticed I was doing something stupid, he'd just point it out and tell me how I should be doing it. For example, leaving Growl on in a party... had many a pet death before he told me to turn it off =P

Ive seen Survival hunters, that grab that spec, and melee, because "all the melee talents are amazing! Im a rogue with windclip".

My memory is a bit foggy about my first few weeks playing WoW over 2 years ago... But I do recall understanding the concept of the pet trainer, but I didn't know that you had to go into YOUR spellbook, and click on the beast training button to actually choose which skills the pet learned.

I used to have a manager at work that got a warlock to 42 without spending a single talent point. Not because he wanted the challenge, but because he thought they cost gold to use. It took about a month worth of explaining (not exaggerating) before he finally learned the key details. Such as:
1) They aren't permanent
2) You don't need to talk to a trainer to use the points you have
3) It takes no time at all
4) To use them, you go to your talents box and just click the boxxes in the window

Had to repeat all those about 3-4 times before he finally figured it out.

This was mine as well. At 26 I had every available training skill including the ones I was suppose to learn from mobs. Bite 1-3, gore 1-3, claw 1-4(I think) Screech 1.

I was using the strategy guide to find what mobs had them and kept them until (you learn______ rank _) popped up and then abandoned them. Had no idea that it was in my spell book. However I did know something was wrong cause my pet had like 100 some training points lol.

eh?

send Mulgrin (writer of the FAQ) a pm, he'll edit it in if it isnt there yet.

Edited, Apr 3rd 2008 5:47pm by Aethien