Comments on: Puppies

By: Ichthus

Ichthus — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:48:12 +0000

I’m the ‘non-standard’ hunter in our guild. I raid with an owl or wolf, because while dps is nice, buffs and debuffs are also nice. Unfortunately, buffs and debuffs don’t pay the bills and due to the current high end content and my lower end gear, I’m likely going to be swapping out for something a little more standard. Damn you blizzard.

By: The Lords Breed

The Lords Breed — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:33:14 +0000

One of our raid leaders and I were actually taking about wolves last night, and he/we came up for a WotLK suggestion for wolves.

Play Dead.

Does the exact same thing as Feign Death, but can only be used by wolves, since they are the more dog like creatures.

By: BM

BM — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:14:39 +0000

I leveled with my ravager since lvl 16 and love it but managed to pick up a boar and the boar makes a great leveling pet.

Ravagers > cats and raptors for the sheer fact of gore. The health and armor difference in the 3 classes is minimal at that.

I don’t see the allure to wolves unless your raid has the melee dp s to couple with the furious howl, and even then it could be a situational call of the raid leader to have the hunter bring his wolf to help boost their dps. I could see it being more beneficial for an SV hunter to have a wolf than a max dps BM hunter.

1 sv hunter with a wolf + 1 expose weakness rogue = some decent damage for the melee dps group. Toss a druid’s fairie fire in there and now we are rocking.

just my honest opinion.

By: Krystofar

Krystofar — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:56:50 +0000

I read the post then I read the comments desperately looking for what I consider to be the wolf’s best trait. Little tank! Yes, I’m sure your bear or your boar is a good tank too, but damn my wolf is awesome. I have a cat for BG’s and a scorpid for arena, but I would never raid without my wolf. I’ve had Skippy since he was a puppy in Dun’morogh. I absolutely agree that DPS is very low compared to other pets, but he has saved so many lives by pulling aggro off healers, off-tanking, or filling in for downed main tanks. With good heals, I have run many instances with Skippy as the MAIN tank. His 7600 health and almost 13,000 armor make it easy. Regular Blood Furnace, Mana Tombs – no problem! My daughter, a resto-druid (http://healingtree.wordpress.com) and I, two-manned Ramparts with the pup taking all the punishment. Galvagar and Drek’thar have many many bite marks from my puppy-tank.
I love my wolf.

Krystofar n’ Skippy
p.s. BRK, I have a question! Why does my wolf hold aggro so much better than my cat? Is armor an attribute in the calculation?

By: Asara

Asara — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:31:39 +0000

I wanted to see for myself the difference between raiding with a wolf vs. a cat, so I took my blue beauty Leshya along the last time we ran Gruul’s. I ended a full 100 dps behind the other two BM hunters in my raid, who both had the Blackwind kitty. Reason enough for me to bring my GM kitty from now on, that’s for sure!

By: mammaltoe

mammaltoe — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:40:39 +0000

Did he just say leetsauce?

By: joeboy

joeboy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:51:19 +0000

I had the beautiful opportunity of leveling with LeChon (Roast Pig in my native tongue, Filipino) a piggy from RFK.

Very rare in the 70’s, nice armour, stam and has boar charge and gore as the focus dump.

I normally use him on the netherwing dailies and basic farming. On Raids, though, I prefer my bangalash cat. Faster attacks, claw as focus dump, greater chance to get Ferocious Inspiration to benefit the raid party that I am in.

By: Stale

Stale — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:19:50 +0000

I love my wolf at 49 but I know it wont be raid viable… However in WotLK with shouts and totems becoming raid buffs rather then party buffs, you would think howl would be too… so with tanks, melee and hunters all getting the buff, it would be 2k damage every 10 seconds would be leetsauce.

Therefore I plan to have a 70/80 wolf and then probably get a cat cause of the DPS if I get to raid at 70 before Wrath of the Bitch King.

By: Vyraal

Vyraal — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:55:19 +0000

Best pet while grinding is a Boar, hands down. Boar’s Charge is such a valuable tool, plus the damn thing eats just about anything and almost never dies.

By: kunukia

kunukia — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:02:52 +0000

Yah, a couple of my hunters have flyers, but I only solo with them, most tanks hate them. Carrion birds are good to solo with, and easy to feed. But I like the bat flying animation better.