I want to play a pet class going into Shadowlands, which is the most fun class or spec to play in Shadowlands since I don’t have the beta and the prepatch isn’t the full class experience. I don’t really care right now about which one is doing the best damage or whatever, just strictly enjoyability to play.
Uhhh… A hunter?
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Sis, you’ll probably enjoy hunters the most if you really dig the pet part! BM has a fun rotation that you can cast while moving and you can take any cute animal you see in the world and make it your friend!
Warlocks are okay, but they’re basically your slaves (can’t even name them) and it takes 7 years to re-summon them if they die lol
you ask like there’s a choice
There is. Warlock, Hunter, Frost Mage, Unholy DK,.
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By this metric you can summon battle pet for any class and pretend to be “pet class” like DK and mage
If you are talking about pet customization yes hunters are the best. They have a whole website for hunter pets. Warlocks tend to get neglected by the devs in the fun department, and pet department.
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Depends on how reliant you mind being on your pet.
Frost Mage might as well be pet less but just has the burden of having one. UH similarly isn’t as reliant on theirs, but also summon additional minions making them a true master of minions spec but not truly a pet class.
Warlock is almost punished by theirs because their utility is basically all tied to which pet they use, and due to that you won’t really swap much as things like Felhunter just outshine everything else (except for Imp which does a bit more damage)
Hunter though is the real pet class, both BM and Survival are tied to the pet and cannot function in their role without them. If you are looking for a true pet class this is them. Different pet families provide different abilities, there are lots of different looks you can collect, the pet forms a core part of the rotation, also the pet feels very strong in of itself instead of just feeling like an attachment.
Wait until prepatch, also “fun” is opinion based. You can love hunter and hate warlock or love and hate hunter because their playstyles are vastly different.
Make 2 trial toons - 1 warlock, 1 hunter. Play both a bit until you feel you enjoy one more.
Hate to break it to ya but frost mage isn’t a pet class, you don’t synergize with your pet at all. He just throws some water at the enemy while you are the main DPS.
As for unholy DK, its a 50/50, they have 1 pet+a 2min skill that summons 8 zombies for 15 seconds in pre patch, as well as the big 10min CD skill that summons 10 undeads for 40 seconds, as well as a low cd gargaoyle/val’kyr(talent), but most of the DPS comes from their own skills, not pet skills.
The 5 true pet classes are survival hunter, BM hunter, and all 3 warlock specs to some degree but demonology the most.
Monk. #YulonComingSoon
Is Yulon becoming a permanent pet or what?
if u want a no martens pet class u get arcane mage do arcane fam,iar talent , it pet go with u
Lol, no. It’s got a 3 minute CD. It was mostly a joke because there are many monks complaining that WW is a monk Zoo: SEF + Fallen Order + Xuen.
Edit: I wish Yu’lon was perma.
Well with old touch of death(nerfed ofc) coming back, I don’t put it past them to give monks a permanent healing pet.
I think the OP is more talking about classes with pets/minions as a “pet class”. Many considered necromancers in diablo 2 to be a pet class for example. I’d even add shamans as an option. It depends if you see minions as a pet or not.
So with that in mind…
mage warlock frost pet is just a weak elemental. This is one that I’d avoid, its just a glorified DoT who can’t even tank or do anything useful except damage (which is weak as it is), more a CC tool but the only one on the list thats no good even as a minion. Mage arcane familiar is okay, far better than the ice elemental as far as a “pet” goes.
Shamans get elementals, and if specced for it, can almost be perma out if timing them right. I think shortest time to wait for another elemental is 2 minutes and (30 seconds?) if do it properly and get all the talents specifically for them. Elemental (hey the name) shamans get talents that are specifically for their elementals. They are pretty strong too and you can control them if take a certain talent. Shamans though themselves feel like they take vastly more damage than my mages do, dunno why but my mages can face tank with their spell shields at 120 and my shaman can’t do anything like that.
Unholy DK. Want to be a self healing necromancer with amazing self heals for a dps class? Here you go. Even get a perma pet (or two if take skeleton). And even more of a necromancer in shadowlands. Speaks for itself so need to say no more about it.
Warlock demonology summons huge hordes of (very) temporary minions, like that one class in DAOC that I know they based the entire spec off of. Maybe the same person designed it (wouldn’t be surprised), its pretty much a 1 for 1 copy but reskinned. Destruction can get infernals every so often, but destruction doesnt need a pet, it can face tank and self heal for crazy amounts and it isn’t changing in SL. Affliction gets this eye thing. Then the class gets its basic pets
Hunters are the typical pet class that people expect a pet class to be. But my opinion, I feel survival feels like what beastmaster should been, side by side with your pet working together. beastmaster seems weird, and the animal raid thing is dumb and beastmasters more sacrifice and abuse their pets than actually work with them like survival does. Beastmaster would been a ton better as a melee survival hunter, but blizzard didn’t go that path
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Hunters will have the most fun but it is worth mentioning that since everything is undead practically in SL that DK’S “control undead” will be really fun I think.
Hunters get undead pets in SL!