Hello all, i am struggling on choosing a pet. I decide to not use a boar since ive been taking it with me for the entire 50 level, and it is time for him to have a retirement. I heard a lot of people said that having an owl is a good choice because they can held AOE damage aggro, but i wonder if bat can do the same thing; i want to know is their a big dps gap between bite and claw? I used to not take claw even on my cat pet because they will take so many focus off that it can not use taunt and loses its aggro, but since i have putted two point in to focus region, i wonder if claw will do more damage than bite.
I believe you can have several pets available and many more stabled, so try out several and see what you like.
in classic there are only 3 slots to store pet, i have already used 2 of them, thats why i am struggling picking it.
Ah, I haven’t leveled a hunter up far enough in Classic to learn this, sorry. Maybe this article on wowhead can help:
https:// classic.wowhead. com/guides/classic-wow-hunter-pets
(you’ll have to take the spaces out… won’t let me do a link)
I can only suggest that you keep an eye out for what pets other level 60 hunters have out. I tend to mostly see cats and all of my hunters have cats because of their speed. I’ve heard that owls are good because they are a bit healthier, therefore needing less mana usage and their Screech has no cd and does help with mobs. It’s really a matter of personal choice.
Cats have the most dps for raiding. Followed by the new windy Bois we get in ZG.
The pet DPS just isn’t much, and since they usually die it might just be better to go for a Wolf to buff your shots and melee.
Depends what what you mean by not a lot.
If you consider around 120 dps to not be a lot.
That does rely on the pet living, which is pretty unlikely on any fight with AoE. Also I’m not sure it does that much DPS as TSA spec.
Wolf just lets you keep it out of melee for those fights and buff the melee DPS.
Typically, I choose my cat for PvP and my wolf for PvE, Soloing, and instances. There is an argument that can be made for Wind Serpent because of boss armor but it seems to be fairly negligible.
I, personally, parse 95+ during raids.
i know the cat have the highest attack speed, but for my information, i think theres a bat in ZG that have a solid 1.0 attack speed as the same as the broken tooth
Attack speed is normalized, so the speed is irrelevant. The 1.0 speed of Broken Tooth/ZG bat is for PvP, for caster pushback. The cat does the highest personal DPS because of the family’s attributes and learnable abilities.
The DPS is the same for all cats.
No it’s not. lol. Not until TBC anyway.
Oh, about the Claw vs Bite debate - Claw is for pvp, Bite is for PvE.
Uh… what? Broken Tooth doesn’t do more damage than a slower attack speed cat.
You meant attack damage and not attack speed, right?
No use being pedant. It is very clear he means a 1.0 attack speed cat doesn’t do more DPS than a 1.5 attack speed cat in a PvE fight.
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What do you even mean? Faster attack speed, weaker hits. By 1.12 pet attack speeds were normalized so faster pets didn’t do more damage. Perhaps that’s the wrong wording, but that’s how it is. A cat does a static amount of damage regardless of attack speed by design at this point.
BT is purely a PvP pet - though the attack speed is nice for threat.
It’s not a minor difference though. We aren’t arguing semantics it’s a pretty big difference. I do, however, understand what they meant - they just aren’t the same thing.
The difference between Attack Speed normalization and Attack damage normalization are as follows:
Attack Speed Normalization: All pets have the same attack speed and do the same amount of damage, this didn’t happen until 2.0.
Attack Damage Normalization: All pets take attack speed into consideration when calculating damage done and no longer do shadow damage(I.E. Lupos). This happened in 1.9.
So because someone who doesn’t play a Hunter didn’t use the exactly right terms - even though you fully understood the point - you didn’t even bother to elaborate on why I was, “wrong” and are just arguing semantics?
Okay then.
That’s why I asked:
Then followed up by explaining the difference. I’m not attacking you.