Thinking about playing a hunter. Does Viper sting for mana regen only work on enemies that have mana? You get aspect of the viper at level 20 correct? Do you regain mana from just range auto attacking or melee auto attacking? Does aspect of the viper only work on mobs with mana? Do I need to take up engineering to get the best ammo?
Any other advice and tips I should know about. I will def get the mend pet glyph so I don’t have to worry about feeding my pet as much. What happens if your pet is unhappy for too long?
The pet can leave. But wrath made this nicer. the feeding is not so bad. Nor is keeping them “green”, the good pet color.
Feed on tame, feed them every 5 minute or so a couple times till green and you ahve a friend for life. After that the feedings don’t come as much.
Cooked food is more happiness than raw food as well.
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Viper Sting can only be applied to enemies with mana.
Attempting to fire it at a mob or player without mana results in an error message saying that it’s not a valid target or something like that.
Aspect of the Viper works regardless of whether the enemy has mana or not, and it regens mana passively,from auto attacks and funnily enough abilities like Arcane Shot so on so forth.
As for engineering, engineering is great for hunters because if you aren’t anti gun you get a lot of decent guns early on.
As Alliance you will get a metric tonne of decent bows from quests and if you start off as a Dwarf or quest in the Dwarf starting areas you will also get a few decent guns from quests.
But if you play Horde, you will most likely be a Troll or an Orc and you don’t get squat for bows from quest rewards so you will mostly make do with Bows from vendor limited supplies, dungeon rewards like Wailing Caverns or Blackfathom Depths or the PvP Honour purchased one.
But when ICC releases there will be a recipe unlocked for engineers to craft the best ammo available.
But they aren’t BoP so you can just get an alt/friend/guildie to craft them for you.
But Engineering stuff is fun.
Especially bombs,parachutes and rocket boots so on so forth.
If your pet is unhappy it gets a damage decrease of I think 25%.
But as soon as you feed it and it’s happiness goes up it goes to 125% damage dealt.
Unlike Classic and TBC the only thing you have to worry about as a hunter regarding happiness is the damage decrease.
But unless you get a fussy pet, feeding em is a cakewalk.
Just keep a slot free for food just in case you have to sacrifice your pet too often to escape from combat/take down elites.
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If you target and they have no mana then it will simply not fire the VS at them and instead all you will get is low white damage from your auto attack.
Thanks everybody. The damage increase is helpful information. I get more concerned about them possibly running away if I don’t feed them often enough. That’s why I’m going to get the minor mend pet glyph to help with that. I know I also need to keep an eye on the pets’s diet too. I will be taking up cooking and fishing and engineering. Though I’m wondering whether I should have my hunter learn mining or just let my death knight supply the materials.
Yes my pet ran away because I went afk too much and didnt feed it good enough stuff. If you have never had one run away, then basically look for the signs. They will start to get less responsive and will also follow you at a further distance. In most cases they will simply run away, in rare cases they will attack you. Once either of those two happen it seems to be 100% impossible to retame them from my experience. This is me talking from my hunter I had in original 2007 WoW. 2007 was when I made my first ever hunter.
I dont know if everything I said was correct but it should be.
Elvui will make the pet status bars look different if used to as well.
I was looking at my pet bar one day going its looks off from its usual. Checked the pet cahr screen and they were unhappy.
Only pet is mistreatment I recalled was a few pet deaths in pvp. So on pvp nights I throw them extra food just in case that was it.
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Yea if you play on a PvP server and see a lot of action or even if you do a bg and see some stuff, or get attacked too many times by mobs or by a ganker, it will stress your pet out. If you keep dying back to back by the same ganker, your pet will have a really high chance of leaving you. Dont have it out if you know you are going to die alot.
Dying too much, even from falling and drowning deaths, that can stress your pet out and cause them to leave.
Hoo boy. It comes down to don’t let your pet die lol. Thank you
Pet loyalty doesn’t exist in Wrath Classic, so even if your pet hates your guts, the worst you have to contend with is lower damage dealt.
Pets only ran away in Vanilla and TBC.
I play a max lvl wotlk hunter I do want to make small suggestion:
/petattack macro.
You want this on your bar and have it bound to a key so you can make the pet switch targets. otherwise the pet is going to constantly come back to you (unless you are getting hit) or you set it to aggressive which results in the pet going after mobs too far away. Also you have to sometimes put the pet on passive to get it to come back to you if it’s in a boss aoe.
check out a website called petopia. type: wotlk petopia into google and look for abilities tab to get an idea as to what pets you want in your stable.
Theres quite a bit more but expect in the end game to use misdirection to grab mobs with shots and volley to tag mobs into the tank.
They changed it recently, as long as your pet isn’t set to not attack it will attack whatever you target.
Starting with what you struck first, and then whatever is next.
actually this kind of results in random targeting. If you need your pet on something quickly you want that macro. not some automated ai thing going.
Well you can always just command it to attack your preferred target.
All in all, just saying that unless you are in multi target scenarios with priorities your pet will assist like it does in retail.
Im sorry but I am experiencing clunkiness without that macro but I appreciate your input.
- Enemies need to have mana if you expect to steal any from them.
- As a classic hunter I didn’t see viper aspect until crusade… maybe wrath lowered it. Check wowhead or something.
- Viper aspect works on any enemy and with any attacks. But it’s most ideal to use OUTSIDE combat because when in combat it cripples your damage. Don’t use it in combat anymore than necessary.
- No. You can simply buy the ammo from the auction house. But they are ripping you off. It’d be ideal to have an engineer, even if it’s not your hunter, to make your own ammo.
- I welcomed the mend glyph as I hated having to feed pets in the past. No one has to eat in this game so it makes little sense that a hunter pet has to do it.
- The pet will eventually ditch, but with the glyph, you’ll never be red for that long.
If you wonder what pet type to take, I use cunning for solo/BG, ferocity for groups/raids. I never saw a need for tenacity.
If your BM spec sometimes using intimidation after switching the pets target real quick with the macro can stop someone from casting while you continue to put pressure on somebody else. It helps to have more control over things.
Easier to hit a button then move your mouse cursor and move it to a tiny little attack button over and over and over. Kinda annoying.
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