How bad are boars after the *fix*Follow

I'm just curious how bad boars are since the nerf, er *bug fix*. I've had Baconator since I was level 14, but I picked up a cat in preparation for running instances in the Outlands. Now that I'm level 64 and Baconator's stuck at level 52, I'm wondering if it's even worth leveling him. Does anyone have any experience with boars since the nerf? I'd hate to level him once I get to 70 only to find out that he's no better than my cat at holding aggro and I should have dropped him ages ago.

Thanks in advance,
Camel

They lost their massive chargegrowl threatspike.
Wich means they are now good soloing pets instead of insane soloing pets.

Carrion Birds are now probably better for soloing, as screech has some decent threat.
(1 screech is i believe 1 6th of an unbuffed growl at lvl 70, and i think my growls with ~2.2k ap are about twice as high as an unbuffed one..... though I'm not sure.)

Carrion birds are great. If it wasn't for those flapping wings in my face, I'd use mine more often.

The AoE from screech will only grab aggro on mobs that should have already been aggro'd.

You could always respec to Beast Mastery and not worry at all.

My Hunter sips piña coladas while Bubbles the Ravager goes to town on those pesky Blood Elves.

using Omen or any Treathmeeter will give u the advantage to control your aggro (you might use it allready).

then you got feign Death and intimidation

I dont think I would have gotten into T6 content without Omen ;)
And FD s to much trouble, most mobs are dead before they reach me anyway :)

ah! really sorry, then there aren't hardly a pet that can hold aggro from you xD, anyway, for me FD works fine, but im only a random lvl 70 hunter, mutch lower geared than you :)

I still love the boars for the levelling and that rush they have before any other pet gets the dash , quicker to get to target has to be a big bonus on lower levels of play.

But at lower levels with any pet i am now finding it far harder to get mobs attacking me , Has anyone else noticed a difference ? at level 70 i still find i can easily get any mob to attack me and ignore my pet though ?

There sure is some weird stuff going on in pet mechanics recently and from what i read will get even weirder with the next patch.

With my 70 and a boar i found just using steady shot i almost always get more threat than my boar but it has always been like it for me, However using the standard macro that most high level hunters seem to use or a steady/auto/kill command i can usually just get the mob dead just before it gets to me.