Bellygrub is Ours
Why Bellygrub? Two reasons:
1. Bellygrub comes with Gore 4, which is the last “gore” until level 48.
2. Bellygrub comes with Charge 3, which is the last “charge” until level 48.
Basically, Bellygrub is the be-all-end-all of boars for hunters. Alliance toons have to beg and plead with all the other low level-20s who have the quest to kill him, while Horde have to sneak into Lakeshire and deal with the Alliance questers. On a PvP server, this must be a colossal PITA, although completely and totally worth the effort.
Why “Spider”? Because “Obiwonpignoobie” is too long.
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I had this Boar also, all the way to level 32 where I dumped it for the all so common dark skinned RFK Boar that I have had ever since.
I definitely like the name. Very subtle. It doesn’t hit you over the head.
Now I want some bacon.
Oh yeah, great pet. I’m not on a PvP server but I was so pleased to get him as Horde I kept the name.
i may be misinterpreting you, but doesn’t petopia show the next rank of gore being available at 32, and the next charge at 36?
wait, scratch that, i just noticed that charge 4 and gore 5 and 6, uh, don’t exist. question #2: why?
So you got Belly. Awsome. As you mentioned he comes with great talents and great power.
While levelling my Hunter to 70 I went “boar all the way”. First the small black ones from Kharanos, then Belly (for stats) and then the armoured piggy from RFD (because he looks so cool – named him Grond). And for a good reason!
Boars do enough damage that it’s worth mentioning and they hold aggro like their life depends on it and so, they are one of a Hunters best friend!
Now that I started raiding (almost have Lady Plash in SSC down on her knees) I have swapped my boar for a Ravenger. Why?
Well he can’t tank or even offtank anymore. Pure and simple. Mobs are just too strong and our healers are bussy healing someone who’s dps and repair bill counts for more. But I sure do miss him. I loved Grond.
So the soul reason to swap him with a faceless and ugly bug was his tendencies to break traps!!!
While grinding my way from lvl. 1 – about 65 I never noticed. But when the instance-running started to get somewhat “serious” I discovered that he had a tendency to break my traps. I had him on passive (of course) but still he would CHARGE and break the trapped mob B while I was asking him to attack our prime target mob A. It happened in instances and it happened while I was soloing.
At first I tried to figure out if I was doing something wrong; hitting the wrong buttons or something silly like that, but no. Then I started to ask other boar-owning Hunters if they had the same problem. The answer was yes. Then I asked a Gamemaster what the f*** was happening with our boars and got the answer: Boars may just be stupid!
So … get a boar, it’s an awesome pet (and I miss mine) but look out as you grow “older”
Bilgrim & Ripley (the Raveger)
@tirah —
Per Petopia:
“Note: If a rank is shown in the table above but not in the list below, it means that no creatures know that skill and it is therefore not possible to learn it at this time.”
http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills_charge.shtml
http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills_gore.shtml
@brk –
“Spi-der Pig, Spi-der Pig…..!”
Am I guessing the right reference?
BTW, I just hit 70 last night! Now, I need to powerlevel leatherworking and skinning so I can make my Netherscale set and a little more gold for my flying mount! Then I need to get Ripper (ravager) from 69-70 and Edgecrusher (boar) from 64-70. THEN I need to start questing for Kara! LOL and people say there’s nothing to do after 70!
–Lonehunter & Ripper, 70 Orc Hunter & 69 Ravager, {Casualty}, Area 52
Ahhh I remember the joys of sneaking into Laskshire to get my hands on this pig. 3:30 am, lucked out that there was nobdy around. Then I got the lake and saw nothing but pig corses. Thinking crap I turned on track animal and low and behold there he ws, all by his lonesome in a field of hogshanks.
I just posted a blog about Bellygrub (its the one prior to the Green Bay beating Seattle post. Woot!).
I took my Orc hunter up into Lakeshire to tame him for these two skills. On the way I grabbed Bite rank 4 from a wolf in Darkshire.
Patches, my boar of choice is tearing up the clothies in the level 29 bracket Battlegrounds. I have patches trained in Gore, Bite, and Charge, and I just let them spam away. Its a joy to watch warlocks run around in circles while my little guy rips that cloth armor into shreds.
Thanks for the videos! Keep up the good work.
Really BRK, how does it feel leveling up another Dwarf Hunter? Nostalgic? Boring? Are you doing quests you skipped before and going into forgotten lands?
My BE Hunter Krovon is now 35 and have Bellygrub as his boar pet tank. I snuk into lakeshire I broad daylight to get mine but I call him “Ravvie” though. That boar can hold aggro like a total champ. My other pet is my first and long time Ravager from Azuremyst since lvl 11 “Ravagon”. Nice to have awesome pets.
At lvl 32 I arrived at Theramore Isle with Bellygrub aka Carnitas, where we began the Theramore Agitators quest. It culminates in giving Gavis Greyshield, the leaders of the agitators and a non-elite level 37, a right, solid thumping. To get to him on his ship I had to dispose of approx. seven lvl 35 to 36 Agitators first, but we were lucky to get just one multiple pull.
Gavis has a buddy with him and while Carnitas survived the fight I wasn’t so lucky. Just as Gavis ’surrendered’ and the Quest Complete message popped up, his First Mate got in a few more whacks and I was forced to spirit run back to my body. But the quest was complete and other than on the last fight Carnitas had no problem holding Aggro and never looked close to dying.
For solo grinding you can’t beat a Pig, and they eat anything, too.
I just got Bellygrub with my level 24 BE alt, “Pwnstar”. Piggy? “Boyfriend,” of course
@brk,
if you’re gonna insist on baconbits there, i’m gonna have to ask you to step inside a bg since they perform so well in there! mind you, hmm… pig or owl better for bg? oh! here comes a brk amalgamated world wide uber production opportunity!
Ironhelm
ps. ma Iron* hunter uses a cat. but boars are fun diversion!
/gasp Thats my Porkchop!
I grabbed him around lvl 30 and he’s been with me all the way to 70. Boars ftw!
“Obiwonpignoobie” roflmao. you are the best! hilarious!
lol it took me a minute to figure out the connection between Spider and pig >_< what can i say… I should be blonde!
Besides having the next rank of gore and charge (which you can learn from Bellygrub), is there any other benefit to keeping him as a pet, if i already have a boar that has leveled with me from lvl 10? Does Belly have more HP, armor or Stamina?
Spider pig spider pig does whatever a spiderpig can!
Spider pig FTW!
I love the subtle referance there!
I do not fight with food. Bacon goes in mah bellah not on the battlefield.
You can safely use Bellygrub to grab new skills and teach them to your current boar. He’s nothing special except the package of skills he comes with.
I had to kill an alliance hunter to get the latest Bellygrub I tamed.
I’ve tamed him 4 different times and only this last time saw a player of the opposing faction when I showed up to find him.
Aiy, I grabbed the boar myself at 24. Named him “Bellygrub” mostly because I want to get three rares and name them the same. Shame it doesn’t mean much except to fellow hunters. Lupos is next, I think.
BRK, I love that you are now running up a BM hunter from scratch as Rroc here is just lvl 31. I have never had a 70, or even a 60 although I’ve been playing well close to two years now. Wife and baby daughter get first dibs on the time, you know
I find your tutorials and videos very helpful, and your tone makes for happy reading. Keep it up. I hearby offer my vote to you for the Hunter Hall of Fame.
By the way, for those wanting to know where and when to get the next rank of a pet skill, grab the addon Hunter’s Helper…you can console the skill and rank and it will return a list of all beasts, their zone and levels. Great little tool.
Bellygrub is a must-have, but I haven’t found him hard to get on a high-population server. Being a PvE server, it wasn’t a big deal to walk my troll to Lakeshire at 24, and Bellygrub was just sitting there waiting to be tamed. Long, long walk, tame, hearth, feed. I concede it can get competitive in there sometimes with the kill-Bellygrub quest, but he respawns pretty quickly if I remember right, and more often than not the players in that garden are after the lower-level boars. The night I took my undead lock through that garden on the way to discover Burning Steppes, there were level high-teens Alliance questing there, with Bellygrub roaming about freely, practically asking to be tamed.
Lupos, mentioned above, was a little more interesting to me, but I’ve only run into him on non-hunter characters. Seems like I always see the rare beasts when I’m playing one of the “lesser classes”.
charlotte’s web for the win!
picked up a EPL boar @ 60 – nobody holds aggro like chuckberry.
plus he’s got that Princess Mononoke thing going when i hit BW – love that sh-t.
I once attacked a group of Horde in Lakeshire as I thought they were making trouble – but when I realised they were only there so their hunter could tame Bellygrub I started cheering them on instead! Went and watched the taming process. Good fun.
I started my hunter on 1/1/2008 late in the day (level 46 as of last night – Helfila@executus) after going to heroic SV with two huntards that didn’t trap or damage ‘enough’, on searching the web, I found BRK doing all the nasty damage I do with my rogue, so I started a hunter (yes your fault BRK). Loving it. Best toon in the game.
Of course, I trained one of the boars in Loch Modan after seeing the noob videos and realizing that charge was the schnit. When I hit Redridge, I noticed that Bellygrub had the extras, so I tamed him too. In about 2 min, he had trained me on the skills, so I dismissed him, and gave them to my other piggy “Smelly”.
As for rares at 26 I went and trained Humar the Pridelord, fortunately the server had restarted that Sunday, so the 12 hour initial spawn was dead on. I had to fly my rogue there to clear some of the horde waiting for him to tame or kill, but I got him. He rocks. However the piggy’s charge can generate 2-3K threat which is WAY awesome for multiple mob handling.
BTW, levelling 2 pets is fairly easy if you just alternate them between levels. A trash pet (the last trained) remains around to help clear crud on the way to new pet skills.
Thanks BKR for the videos, my huntard is all the better because of them.
Cheers.
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Why are you starting out every post now with a question?
Because you can.
Quote:On a PvP server, this must be a colossal PITA,
easy …. 2 box with your 70 ….not many will bother you.
Glad BRK has seen the light, or maybe he always had. I got bellygrub ages ago at level 20, now i’m taking him through kara (w/ the inevitable comparisons of Kenny (my pet) and the pig on moroe’s dinner table). Anyway Kenny is so great, i keep trying to find a ‘better’ pet and fail miserably. Charge is huge in holding aggro, he’s decent in BGs, decent in raids/instances, good in arena (you could argue scorpion is better, i won’t disagree), an all-around good pet. Plus, he eats manna biscits, or underbog spores. (that free food you get from a trinket from the spore people in zangamarsh). You can get a cat for more raid damage, true. You can get a scorpion for arena. But if you are doing all that plus farming for gold? Pigs FTW!
w00t, massive replies on getting a piggy^^
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ive really pulled out all the stops for good pets .
i bagged lupos the wolf L33t
got bellygrub w00t!!
and Vultros the leet bird in westfall. it was hell gettin the bird cause of swoop which stops tame beast. the solution was lay a freezing trap in front of u. start taming at max range. the freezing traps gives u enuf time
hmm, I haven’t seen anyone talking about the charge issue or really a non-issue. One of the biggest thing a pet/demon owner has that most people don’t, is the ability to micro-manage that pet/demon ability. Take Charge(Intercept) off of auto-casting, you can either manual click it when you want your pet/demon to charge(intercept) or macro it but for the love of the gods, don’t put that ability on auto-cast.
Congrats and well done. I also tamed Bellygrub, and the little guy took me to level 70 in fine style. I still have that piggy, and always will.
Got my Loch Modan moutain boar at lvl 10. I switched to Sian Rotam at 60 so both myself and my pet could stealth for pvp. Even though the white lion model is very pretty I really started to miss “Yoink” so I’m leveling him again. He’s 59 now, and I’m 64. hope it doesn’t take too much longer. I really want to start bringing him to battlegrounds again. I find that the Charge effect is great for helping me get melee off of me long enough for some distance and a jump(concussive)shot.
Bellygrub has been great for me so far….my 1st hunter after over 2 years of playing.
ftw….named him BigRedKitty
/salute http://www.bigredkitty.net