For all the veteran hunters out there, in shadowlands I heard you could have up to five pets with you. I also read that you could summon a pet from the stable but they would do less damage than the main one currently with you. Regardless if they are on the call list or summoned from the stable do all pets do around the same damage? Just want to make sure I do my research before creating one
The pet you summon from the stable is part of a Beast Mastery talent which gives you two pets, and it’s always the first pet in your stable. All primary pets will do the same amount of damage, yes.
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Okay but the stable pet’s damage will be less?
all primary pets do the same damage. it’s like that for hunters and warlocks (except demo has it’s own spec specific pet it’s balanced around that you should always be using)
So is a stable pet considered a primary pet or are pets primary only if they are on your call list? Sorry if I’m not understanding stuff as fast
as a BM hunter you can use a talent that lets you use two pets. no matter what pet you use as your main pet it will do the same damage. the other pet will do less, if you take that talent (obv because holy OP lol)
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The stabled pet that is pulled out by the talent will only have the basic attacks, and no access to its family abilities. Its an auto attack beast that will cleave on your barbed shots and do additional damage on your kill command plus a few other base attacks except for taunt/bleed/etc.
The trade off is, if you choose this talent, it will lower BOTH pets base dmg by 35%. If you dont, your only pet out will get 100% of its power.
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Thanks so much!
To answer your question, each pet will do 30% (35?) less damage than your single pet on its own. It’s still a significant DPS gain and is pretty much the talent in that row.
Yes, you can have five pets with you. Personally, I’d recommend a Core Hound for solo-play because it has Hero, leech, and a shield it can throw up. That or a clefthoof, but those got nerfed. You should keep around a Spirit Beast for when you want to do group content–they seem to do a smidge more damage and come with a tiny self-heal. Besides, they tend to be really cool looking show-off pets.
As for the other three? I’d select pets that have useful secondary abilities. Like grab a pet that has slow fall. You can just pull it out and use it to drop gracefully to the ground (until you get Dreamweaver and just have that built in) and so on.
Never discount the option of a vanity pet, either. The pet that you have just because you really like showing off this rare and obscure or scarce thing you tamed. It’s a little silly, but I have one that I use just for the hell of it.
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So noted!!
This is incorrect.
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i meant that you don’t get two 100% damage pets. which would not be balanced for a spec that is balanced around pet damage.
Thanks so much, appreciate it everybody!
No worries, now people know. You cant really “assume” people know better on GD here, so I just go based off your typing, which needed correcting for others as it does matter.
1 pet = 100% dmg.
2 pets = 65% of base damage, applied to BOTH pets out.
stabled pets are basically pets you want but can’t equip out in the world because you literally only can have 5 pets at a time.
the thing you are refering to i think is called animal companion which is a talent via beast mastery spec. it will favor the first pet in your stable if you have any and yes it states it does less damage and mimic your kill command skill. in the end your gaining damage from this no matter what.
as for pets yes they all have baseline same damage the only difference is they have different skills/tree’s. this isn’t like Classic WoW or TBC Classic where the pet tree’s were more in depth and had different attack speeds and damage and all that.
you basically just want to focus on the pet family, the skills that pet provides, and your needs other then that just the looks.
google Petopia you will find a useful link
Petopia link here.
Different Pets do indeed have different attack speeds. You will see different #s flying over the screen.
Retail.
No, that’s not how it works. There’s a talent that allows you to use a 2nd pet that is placed in slot #1 but it will do way less damage and will not use its active skills or anything, its just an auto attacker.
Huh, as cool as it looks to have multiple pets out, I may just go survival, and switch out pets.