Which Pet are you folks rolling with now?Follow

I use a scorpid for raiding, and a gorilla for farming. Gorilla + Volley + Explosive Shot + TNT + Lock and Load = crazy silly AoE farming.

(I keep hearing about BM being the best DPS spec, but I haven't noticed much difference between myself and my BM-spec guild bretheren on the post-raid Recount meters where if I'm not top dog, I'm top three - but that's a topic for another thread.)

At level 40 I tamed King Bangalash in Stranglegnome Vale(yes I said Stranglegnome). Anyways. I love my cat. Just don't have him specced right now tell I can figure one out for the 50/11/0 build i'm using. I keep hearing about gorillas. Are they really that great of a farming pet. I just gotta know lol Any idea were to get a really good one. I may want to try it out. I'm a farmaholic. Love killing clefthoofs for there thich leather. 50g for a stack of 10 on my server. put up 5 stacks and for me they all sell the same day while I mine. Just wanna try another pet. Been cats since level 10. No use for exotics. Don't want one and probably never will. :D

Seriously, with 5 stable slots you can pretty much get one pet for every function...

I am curious however about the BM "Mr.Fancy Pants" pet taming skill... I'm guessing I can spec that and go tame a dino then respec after and still keep the new "it" pet...Would this be a correct assumption?

Recently switched over to a wolf, it's having a hard time keeping aggro off of me right now though(SV Orc hunter) might stop using the focus dump so it can growl when it comes off of CD(i've had him use his howl just beofre growl came off CD way too many times). Not too worried though cause i can easily melee most mobs.

Get a boar! <oink>
Wait, that needs to change to . . .

Get a gorilla! <ook>

Yeah, but until Blizzard gets a clue and fixes the F$%#ing ground shake, 80% of the population will resent you.

I'm liking my Core Hound a lot so far. Sophie (named her after an old dog I had)was the Kurken, and really ramps up the aggro ,doing some damn fine damage. I get a lot of comments on how pretty she is along with the 'where did you get that pet from?'.

That Phoenix skill is awesome too, really surprises a lot of people in BG's I think when she pops back up again real quick.

I am interested in trying out a gorilla, just haven't gotten around to it yet, what with all the globe trotting I'm doing on all the achievement stuff.

My pet findings: (Spec 51/10/0)

Core Hound (specimen - The Kurken, renamed Hades)
Advantages: Looks cool when standing still, Lava Breath is good
Disadvantages: Animations are somewhat limited or simply look crap on this scaled down tamed version, ground shake
Status: Still stabled

Devilsaur (Specimen - white one from Un'Goro, still unnamed)
Advantages: great fight animations, blood drips from mouth after Monstrous Bite, Monstrous Bite is awesome
Disadvantage: Limited selection meaning you see loads of pets the same as yours, the ground pound is a little excessive considering how small they are now, plus I see my Hunter as a stealthy sort, so the Devilsaur is a bad fit aesthetically.
Status: Released

Silithid (Specimens - rare tan spawn in 1k needles, and blue one from Tanaris renamed Yautja)
Advantages: Venom Web Spray is is the best exotic skill I've seen yet! great fun to play with
Disadvantages: Limited animation, it does the twitchy thing too much, lack of personality
Status: Released (may possibly get another one)

Wasp (Specimen - Blacksting, renamed Dart
Advantages: Sting is very good in both PvE and PvP
Disadvantages: Kinda boring to look at, same problem as Silithid re: personality
Status: Released

Chimera (Specimen - Green one from BEM. Gave up on Nuramoc)
Advantages: Very strong special attack, looks quite good when fighting
Disadvantages: Wings continually clip through the player when standing still, not evough variety meaning everyone either has the same one I had, or a lucky few with nuramoc.
Status: Released

Moth (Specimen - Green glowy one from Terrokar, renamed Acherontia)
Advantages: Good special when it's up, the one I had particularly had a quirk where it kept the green glow after taming making it stand out among the others who all picked the blue one, not a particularly popular pet so you don't see many.
Disadvantages: Reason it's not popular is because it's a moth! Cooldown on special is quite long, I really wanted to like this pet but I can't seriously have one on my Troll, it just doesnt feel right. Maybe if I was a Night Elf.
Status: Stabled

Cat (Specimens - Ghost Saber renamed Zhora, Humar renamed Midnight)
Advantages: Looks cool, good fighting animations, prowl is now a bonus toy rather than a gimped special, rake is actually pretty good
Disadvantages: Why didnt they pick a better model for the Ghost Saber? I like the translucency but hate that cross eyed face most cats have, cats are pretty common
Status: Zhora released, Midnight promoted to main pet.

Conclusion: Cat FTW! It's only really unusual for me as I've never had a cat as my main in all my time as a Hunter, as I mentioned earlier, I hate the skin on most and couldnt be bothered to level the ones I did like, so I abused the pet autolevelling system. I realise black lions will be 10 a penny once more Hunters see the new one in Northrend, but it doesn't particularly bother me currently. I have a pet I like to see standing beside my Hunter and he's effective DPS. I will probably grab an eagle once I can though as I've always wanted one.

I have tried a few out so far, and it really comes down to what you do with your character I guess. I use my hunter to fill time when my wife is off playing lineage2 or I get off work too late, so my hunter is mostly just for questing/farming. Anyways, I tried a moth, didn't care for it, the heal skill was rarely used for me, and like someone else said, it just didn't feel right. I had a cat for ages, they are a staple for hunter pets, and always a good choice. I tried a gorilla and still have it stabled, great pet for tanking if specced right, wicked thing for running lowbies through instances and farming...same goes for the bear, but to a lesser extent. I tried a chimera, great special skill, looks cool, super damage, but the stutter steps at range while it was trying to use its' frostbreath got old very quick(my core hound suffers from the same thing which is sad because i am one of the few hordies on my server who took the trouble to get The Kurken).
All in all, my favorite has been the chimera, but the stutter step bug is killing me, and the gorilla. If the bear could attack more targets with the special, then I would roll with a bear, but the gorilla just makes more sense to me.

Gorilla for AOE and rep grinding, and eventually leveling. With volley, this has been a hell of a lot of fun.

Still have Humar and will never get rid of him.

I like the Nether Ray's sleek appearance (and my matching mount). Seems to work ok interrupting casters. I'm not displeased.

I tried, but can't stand the larger pets (corehounds, devilsaurs, chimeras). Most likely will tame a rhino but really hope they lose the ground stomping that larger pets have. I'd be happy if we could have a choice to downsize some of these.

Biggest disappointment has been my boar.

I know for one thing if they keep the wolves in Ramps tameable when wrath goes live im definitly getting one to go with my black war wolf so when i mount up it just looks like i jumped on my pet .

Edited, Nov 2nd 2008 1:01pm by Gutler