If I train a pet at level 10 should I abandon it for a similar pet when I get another 10-12 levels or does it not matter?
I.E. I train a cat at lvl 10 I am now level 21, should I train another cat that is more my level and why?
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It will eventually be a good idea to tame higher level mobs every now and then in order for your hunter to learn higher ranks of key pet abilities such as claw or bite.
Whether you accomplish this by abandoning your original pet or by temporarily putting it in a stable slot while you learn the new skills/ranks is up to you.
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Ok thats good to know. Will the damage or armor that the higher pet does be different from the original pet?
Most of the time the basic stats will scale up equally as the pet levels. Sometimes you will find a rare mob with a special ability or stat buff that the others don’t have. I’m not exactly sure how many exist like this in Classic, or even if there are any.
I do know that wind serpents are nearly normalized compared to vanilla since what was usually considered wrong with them was later declared by Blizzard to be a bug hence why they are currently almost on par with other standard pets in Classic.
If it’s that far behind your level you are better off taming one closer to yours, unless you want to keep it for a particular reason
Your pet will level up and gain loyalty/training points. While you will need to stable it occasionally to learn a new skill, constantly getting new “main” pets means you will need to keep rebuilding your loyalty points to train their abilities. You can get a lot of info on the wow-petopia website.
To be clear – I wasn’t sure if you were taming a level 10 pet when you were level 25, or if you tamed it at level. Taming a level 10 pet when you are 11 or 12, the pet will eventually catch up to you if you are using it. It will do the same if you are level 25, it will just take longer.
Pets level up as you do and I believe their stats are normalized for their pet type. See the website Petopia (the classic version) for all the various pet types
Your pet’s armor, health, and resistances are based off their “talents”, and there is a pet talent trainer in major cities who can teach you talents like +armor, +health, +fire resist etc
You also have to stable your pet, then go find another beast who has the skills your pet can learn
For example, cats can learn claw, bite, and dash but there are no cats in the game that come with even 2 of those. Most beasts come with 1 skill. So you tame a spider who can teach you bite (rank 1) then abandon the spider and teach your cat that
If you are into windserpents for example, they will come with the lighting blast ability, but they can also learn bite and dive. So you gotta go find a bear or spider or whatever with bite, learn that, then find an owl or something with dive, learn that, then teach them both to your wind serpent
Be advised tho, learning skills like claw, bite, dive, etc costs “training points”, and your pet has a finite amount of these as they level. The only talents you should prioritize on pet are +armor, and +health, DO NOT take the +resistance talents or you will run out of training points and not be able to upgrade the armor and health ones
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One thing to keep in mind is the difference in attack speed between some cats. For example, the cats you can tame at level 10 do not include any with a 1.2 speed (faster is considered better). So once you hit 14 or 15, you might go hunting for The Rake in Mulgore who has that speed.
Beyond that, I don’t believe there are vital differences within the same species (cat) and you’d mostly be taming to get the higher level pet to learn a skill (when the pet uses it), then train your original pet that skill.
Side question: I know where to look attack speeds up online, but how do you find it in-game? Is it a later hunter ability to scan beasts? Or is it somewhere on the pet tab and I just don’t see it?
You can keep your cat throughout the game. Vel has her original two pets from Vanilla (cat/owl).
As your pet gains levels (by fighting along side you) you can teach it new offensive moves.
That is a little tricky because you have to stable your pet and then tame a wild pet that knows the move you want to teach YOUR pet. Once you learn the move, you can release the temp and teach the move to your pet.
Pets can only know 4 moves (like Pokemon) but you can unteach/reteach as you go.
So find a pet you like and you can keep it forever. You can also abandon it and get another if you like.
See Petopia DOT com for more details
thank you for the information. I did not know anything that was on that pet site.
No, dont abandon your first pet. You want those loyalty levels for pet talent points.
Stable your pet, find same pet type of your level with higher rank claw/dash/dive/prowl etc…(based upon pet type). Tame it and kill mobs with it till you learn the new rank. Now go get your first pet out of the stables and train it the new higher rank.
Basically you are balancing between pet level and loyalty level. Your pet being 5 levels below you is way worse than your pet being at loyalty level 3 vs level 6. Because your pets skill price goes up exponentially for minor benefits. But actual pet level affects everything. And growl is free.
Then because it takes a significant number of kills for your pet to level up. And it does not take that long to get to level 3+ loyalty if you keep your pet well fed(which you should be doing anyway). It is often worth ditching your old pet and getting a new one. If for whatever reason it did not keep up in levels.
Doing it that way you have to prioritize the skills though. The only skill I prioritize is natural armor, as it is scaling how much damage they take from melee (most common damage). Stam is way overpriced. Resists are meh for leveling.
DOH missed the 5 YEARS LATER>>…
Google “Petopia Hunter Classic WoW” and you’ll find tons of pet related info.