I’m doing my part part to keep the Vanilla/classic experience alive!
During the arena event in ubrs the tanks said they’re not using the welps for rage, just kill them. I thought that seeing as we’re inside an enclosed space, and it’s getting annoying to manually sic my pet onto each target, I may aswell put him on aggressive for the duration of the event so I can just focus on shooting stuff.
I didn’t catch the exact moment when my pet ventured outside the arena. The whole point was that I didn’t have to focus on him. But my heart sunk when I saw him rapidly losing health after the gate had closed.
The subsequent pincer movement resulted in a wipe, bugged the arena event and we had to log out and reset the instance.
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I could not for the life of me figure out how to feed my pet, or how to learn new moves from other pets.
Hunter really is a bit rough for anyone who doesnt have any idea how to use it
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How anyone originally figured out anything about Hunters is beyond me.
Well now I know ALWAYS keep the pet on passive in instances no matter what. Just deal with the mild nuisance of manually putting it on each target. I did C’thun recently and was to just dismiss it before the fight. BM must be a useless spec for raids, glad I went marksman
I do not remember the exactly amount of time, but for somewhere between four to six weeks recently I did not use the pet. The first thing I noticed was the cost savings of not buying food, the headache of switching foods when switching pets, and the additional bag space when not carrying food. It felt so good. I forgot that I had a pet three weeks into this test, so went to the stable master to be sure they weren’t abandoned.
A common way to manage a pet for hunters that regularly do group activities is to use /petpassive, /petfollow, and /petattack in macros. Every button my hunter uses is a macro, and pet commands are in a majority of them.
Just bind petattack and petpassive to 2 keys and use them. Your pve rotation is literally 2 abilities, one with a long cast and both with a cooldown. You literally have multiple seconds of downtime in your rotation. It isn’t that hard to remember to press petattack.
The only excuse for bad pet management is from a new hunter who just hit 60 and didn’t have to worry about it much through the leveling process. Any hunter who has done raids or even more than a few dungeons should be capable of managing their pet.
You’re first time? That’s lame. I like to meet or exceed expectations so I always plan to cause at least one wipe in every dungeon run.
Even the most seasoned warlock or hunters has, at least once, jumped off a ledge…
“oops, forgot to dismiss my pet”
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Way back in early Vanilla, I admit that I accidently tab-targeted & shot the mobs in the stands with my Hunter during the UBRS arena event. Wiped our guild group. 
I learned my lesson though, & can’t really recall any other glaring “Huntard” moments during my original WoW life from 2004-2011.
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While we were waiting to pull majordomo i got the brilliant idea of testing my new keybinding, but i didn’t notice that i had a mob targeted and accidentally pulled the boss while everyone was still buffing (we got the kill tho).
There was another moments like forgetting to dismiss my pet before jumping to the UBRS arena, tab-target and multi shot a pack in ZG and pulled ebonroc while dancing in the ramp.
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I’ve caused the same bug, for the same reason. Also what prompted me to put the pet on aggressive was something the raid leader asked me to do. (He said watch the rear, not specifically use aggressive).
Who’da thunk she can run through the locked gate?
I have no pet commands on my shoot macros - there are always times when that is exactly what you don’t want. I put pet attack / pet passive on my mouse wheel, I find that gives me the best control.
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I had a pet turn on me. It was rough.
Cursed that class and never played one again.
This kindof blows my mind with raiding. How people figured out how to kill bosses like Viscidus when it was a brand new raid blows my mind. People must have wiped so many times.
My first huntard moment was when I got vanilla for Christmas in 2004.
Got to level 10, got my pet, and … It ran away because I had no idea I had to feed it. I opened a game ticket thinking it was a bug, and got told to feed my pet by a GM. Lol. I’m guessing in the 30ish days it was out before I got to play that had become a common enough problem that the GM didn’t even need more details other than “why is my pet gone?” Lol.
It was a long journey to become truely good at the hunter class but it helped having big red pet, hunting party podcast, exc through the years.
But now though there is a discord for classic hunters that is very useful for new hunters.
‘https: //discord.
gg/RpcsHVQHPy’
Sadly I don’t have permission on the server to share a permanent link, but this should work for the day.
The mayhem of the hunter class is what caused such a tight nit community for the class and many long time hunter mains are happy to teach the new huntards how to grow.
And even with being a hunter main since 2004, I have had a few oopsie moments in classic as well, it happens lol. And at times you will get blamed for things not your fault. I remember in WoD when mages had permanent frost element pet and I was lone wolf talent, the mage jumped a ledge and pet pulled, I got blamed and group kicked…lol. just treat every mistake as a learning experience and you will be fine in no time.
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