Pet leveling is the sucksFollow

Blood elves in terrokar, they are casters, lvl 63-4ish and absolutely refuse to move so ideal for petleveling.

You can also just do a few instance runs. Inform the group that your pet is low level, but won't have a higher aggro range than you yourself. Just keeping him at your side, you will let him leech so much xp that he will blow through levels like kleenex.

If you are BM, you might have a noticeably lower dps, but that's not too important in a five man.

Your pet doesn't get experience from quests, though, does it? I've had great success farming those Blood Elves in Terrokar Forest. The signets they drop sell for quite a bit on auction and they drop just enough food and water for me to keep myself afloat.



Also, I'd lose, what, 25% of my effectiveness in a group with a lowbie pet? No intimation to pull adds off the healer. No Bestial Wrath to nuke down that clothie. My pet is a pretty huge part of my character when I'm Beast Mastery spec'd.

Of course, I could spend the gold on a respec, but then I'd have to learn how to be a Marksman.

Actually, if you are levelling a lowbie pet as a BM, he starts to become more useful a bit earlier than if you were another spec, partly due to Animal handler, with the +hit bonus.
I trained an Ashmane Boar (i hate the look of the plagued ones), and until he was within 4 or 5 lvls of the mob, there was nothing coming up for the pet but MISS, MISS, DODGE, GLANCING, MISS, GLANCING etc etc.

Easy, play with a group that doesn't understand Beast Master Hunters and won't let you use your pet to tank/agro/kill/pull.... there are plenty of them around......

Hello. Im a new Hunter (lvl 56 now). I always have been using a Cat from lvl 10-56. My question is, if I tame another pet (lvl 50 for example) my training points will be 0. That mean I will never get the same Nature Armor rank that I have on my cat (think is like 125 T.P.) or the new pet will have it for being lvl 50+ already? Thanks for any help

Thanks for ur post Itsa. I think my post was not clear. I have read Petopia and other pet stuff, I know pets are diff. by family. My question was about the training points per se. If Im not wrong my pet was gaining like 5 TP for each lvl (with loyalty 6). Sinse I have use the same pet from lvl 1-56 I have 200+ TP. So my question was, If I get a pet already lvl 50, I will get like 30 TP from 50-56? If yes, that mean that I cant get the skills already I have in my cat? (for example Natural armor and Great stamina) With this I dont mean if the new pet have the capacity to learn it, Im talking about the lack of training points bc a new pet have 0 TP and those 2 skills need like 200 TP.

Maybe I still dont put my question clear so I will put an example. Cats are more attacker than tanker. Bears are more tanker. My cat lvl 56 do decent dmg and still have good def. bc have Natural armor rank 9 and Great stamina rank 9 (200+ training points). I get a bear from 50-56 so I guess will get like 30 training points. I can train then my bear with Nat. armor rank 2 and G. stamina rank 3? So that mean my cat will be better tank that this bear even when bear family is more a tank than cat family? Thanks again for any answer

Hmmm, I dont see how this answer my question but thank you anyway. Unless that mean that my new pet will gain 200+ training points from lvl 50-56. What I understand from this quote is that my new pet will learn the same amount of training points at the same lvl and loyalty than my actual pet, but that will be the new gain, what about the 200+ TP that my cat already have? bc I can reclaim my points(untrain my pet) but I can use that points in a new pet? or the will stay in my cat when I put it in the stable?

It will.

My level 48 Hyena had -32 training points or so when I tamed it (because it already knew Dash rank 2) and after gaining two loyalty levels and six experience levels, he now has 92 training points. Each time the pet gains a loyalty level, the training points will get a boost. The higher level your pet is, the bigger the boost, but in the end, once your pets are 'Best Friend' and level 70, they'll have the same amount of training points available, assuming you didn't spend any.

I hope you understood that.

I dont know how to make this clearer, you old pet has nothing to do with your new pet. All pets have the same exact training points, so if you tame a lvl 48 what ever, it will have the same amount of points that your current lvl 48 pet has, once it reaches the same loyalty.

Just another thing, all pets (when at the same loyalty level) will receive the same amount of training points, regardless of family, and the level that you tamed it at. A loyalty level 6 level 70 pet that you just tamed +will have the same amount as one that you leveled from 10-70 at loyalty level 6.

Quite an insightful post if I may say so myself. Kidding. Really Mazra, that odd Panda mutation thing you have going on right now... it's keeping me awake. Odd.

Kate Beckinsale > rampaging teddy bear.

Edited, Apr 5th 2008 10:15am by Bigdaddyjug