Which Pet are you folks rolling with now?Follow

Hey guys,

So, I reactivated my subscription to check out the post-patch goodness. I am a little overwhelmed at what pet I want now! I like the new pet system very much, as well as the new pets. Because of the change to pet modifiers and abilities, Ive even given consideration to pets that once were not very good (spiders for instance). Anyway, I think I would like to have one of each type of pet (tenacity, ferocity, and cunning). I know for a fact I want a rhino hands down to fill the tenacity slot. However, I am a bit up in arms on the others. So what have you guys found to be the best dps pets so far? How about tanking pets? So many choices...

Right now I'm rolling a Gorilladin when I'm grinding and a Devisaur for my DPS'n in instances and BGs. Now If my server would stay up long enough to get more then 1 BG in...

Edit: As soon as I get around to it, I'm gonna get the white cat from Winterspring just to try out cats ands dinos.

Edited, Oct 18th 2008 8:30am by Nolgar

Gorilla's Ive always liked myself. Now, it seems they could make for great solo/tanking pets. I think I may just play a gorilla until I can tame a Rhino. I would get a worm, because ive heard some good things about them, however I really dislike the old worm skins.

No.
It's a neat ability, I'll give you that.

But hunters are still a drainclass in pvp.
So we still live for viper sting, wich means we need a scorpid, and an MM spec.

You might be able to make a BM spec work in a dps team, and then a Corehound could be very useful.
However, hunters have never had much trouble with casters anyway, so gettinbg a cat to counter stealth (with rake bleeds) and going with a 50/21/0 build to maximize BW uptime (max about 30% uptime I think) and a pet that does massive damage looks more promising to me.

Edited, Oct 18th 2008 9:09pm by Aethien

I really like my gorilla for aoe farming, leather and crap in nagrand. I can round up about 8. let him do his thunderstomp twice and then volley.

Cat is my DPS pet. Will try a scorpid one of these days.

I have also noticed that the ferocity pets threat is HUGE. With points in whatever talent heals them when they hit, they never need heals when farming. The dps of the cat alone is enough to build threat faster than i thought would be possible. All in all a very good pet class..... still.

I'm never getting rid of my red Wind Serpent, Minloth, and he will be leveling with me come WotLK.

I'm picking up a gorilla tonight for a bit of fun though. =D

rolling with the king bangalah thing at the minute.

aweseom pet :D

lvl 52 orc hunter
Darksorrow (UK)

I have a cat for raiding. I'm never giving up my Wind Serpent- even if he just sits in the stable. I also have a polar bear named Cola sitting in my stable. I'll probably use him for leveling. I'm just not sold on Gorillas yet. I understand that thunderstomp is the ZOMGWIN skill right now... But they're just too ugly, and they pick their butts. Do they still do that after they're tamed?

I'm still using the same Ravager that I tamed way back on Azuremyst when I was level 10.

52 levels later, in HFP, I'm still using that same Ravager.

I love some of their abilities too, I don't know if all pets have them, but jeez.... Carrion Feeder rocks, I don't have to buy food or keep a bunch of meat drops, I can just tell him to eat corpses every now and then. A Full Happiness refill every 21 seconds? Heck yeah! not to mention, it currently heals about 1k of his HP per tick, for 3 ticks.

Wolverine Bite kicks butt too. Ever seen a huge tall felguard get knocked on his *** by a ravager that doesn't even come up to his armored kneecaps? *snickers* That is quite comical.

Not to mention, Ravagers do so much freaking damage....

Only ravagers have that, but all ferocity pets have Bloodthirsty when talented (wich.. euhm.. everyone will pick)

I'm currently using my faithful cat as my pet, seeing as I only specced 50 points into BM. I'm just not that interested in the exotic pets, but once i hit level 80, I might consider speccing it for fun.

On my 66 hunter (leveling Marks), I'm sporting a wolf pet. Seems to complement my build pretty well (Furious Howl stacks with TSA), and stuff gets blow'd up. I rocked over 1k dps on bosses in Mana Tombs last night, peaking at 1128 on the boss at the end of the escort.

Plus, orcs and wolves go together like peanut butter and bananas.
Don't we make a cute couple?
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/2537/wowscrnshot102008131522fi7.jpg

Edited, Oct 20th 2008 1:18pm by Theophastus

With the advent of the patch, I took my 66 Hunter full BM, and headed to Blades Edge for a try at a Chimera.

So far, seems to be a decent pet; he has a Frostbreath special which appears to be a nice aggro opener, in fact, I've never lost aggro with him, as compared to the Ravager, on whom I would lose aggro on occasion.

Good DPS as well.