Came back to my Hunter finally and wanted to try Nazjatar as BM.
Before 8.2 my pet would fight a mob and if it shot a cone AOE attack in front of it my pet would go behind the mob and dodge the cone AOE attack.
In Nazjatar, i fight anything that spits acid or leaves a AOE dot goo on the floor and my pet is rolling around in it like a damn moron, while i spam mend pet on it and curse myself for taming such a moron.
Is it new for pets to search out aoe to stand in?
And second, my god are pets getting wrecked by mobs in this zone.
Im only 390ish, but i have to mend pet on CD on almost every fight.
I
Just gear. also use a ferocity pet, the leech >>>>>>>>> tenacity’s extra health for pet survivability
As for the aoe thing, they usually move for me, so that’s weird. depends on the mob i guess?
I use a spirit beast for the self heal and purge. I’ll try one with leech to see if that helps daily questing.
So far it has been a nightmare fighting the searays that vomit up acid on the floor when they die. I cant aoe a bunch down because the pet dies within seconds, not from their attacks but from the slime. I can manually move him but that is some tedious micromanagement that i havent had to do in several expansions.
I do however love that the benthic gear is pretty good for BM traits. Unlike many other specs’ benthic traits.
hmm strange. I don’t think I’ve really had that problem for my pet(s).
I dont know. My BM Hunter is almost unkillable on World PvE.
I agree that Nazj is harder but there’s tons of tools for a BM Hunter to avoid death. So what if the pet dies if I could bring him back so fast. And on Nazj, you have a follower to aid you. Either the pet tanks for you or the follower. BFA designed the critters in such a way if you hit them with AoE, they become hostile to you. Havent you noticed that? So I refrain from using multishot or barbed shot when the freaking snails are around my target when I was less geared. But now with my focusing iris essence, I could pull 10 targets including all the snails and melt them in one shot.
Playing a BM Hunter on PvE world is EASY MODE. I still believe this is more of a Learn2play issue. I’m sorry. I dont mean to be harsh.
2 Likes
I could be l2p. I got my Hunter to 120 first then hopped onto alts. So I’m a few months rusty. I never had an issue in the horde or ally quest areas. Only Naz.
It might be the followers messing with my crab’s AI.
If it is only me noticing the squishyness of their pet, then maybe i need better gear. Have 394 or something now.
Love the damage tho!
If you’re using a crab thats why its squishy, try using a clefthoof or any ferocity pet and you’ll notice how hard it is to kill a BM pet, even at low gear levels u can probly take the elites pretty easily
1 Like
Clefthoof, Spirit Beast and Core Hounds are the best possible pets for a Hunter, despite being BM.
Hunters passively should be able to take the Elites easier compared to other classes, so its a matter of what pet you use and how you manage them.
Get a clefthoof enjoy pulling every thing in a area
Pets will try to attack enemies from behind, which is why it seems like it’s dodging, but it doesn’t do it nonstop. Most of the time it won’t happen because your pet can’t stay behind the same mob it has threat on.
And if you’re having any trouble you’re obviously using the wrong pet. Ferocity pets tank through everything. Only the Elite World Quest minibosses have any chance of killing a pet.
depends on how much you heal your pet also, so they could die from smaller things if unhealed.
I use a Spirit Beast translucent crab. He is whatever gives you the extra health, spec.
I use mend pet Liberally. But if i get lazy and just focus on dps and pull mob after mob fast, he will be almost dead by the 3rd mob usually, with no mend pet cast.
Him dying isn’t the worst since revive pet is fast.
Normal mobs aren’t the issue, and neither is elites. It is anything that drops an aoe that melts things fast. I’ll just have to manually move him out of stuff if the AI wants to play in the slime.
Thanks for the feedback guys!
1 Like
Pets have ridiculously high Avoidance. In my experience AoE attacks don’t do practically anything to pets. So your claim is hard to believe. I think it’s more likely you don’t even realize what is actually killing your pet. Damage meters normally don’t even track damage done to pets, so it’s hard to check what happened after the fact.
Using a Spirit Beast is a mistake. It’s as simple as that. Ferocity pets have 15% leech, which means constant healing from your dps, and even more healing when you cleave on multiple targets. The amount the leech heals is in a whole other level. I can go for hours without ever needing to use Mend Pet, and only powerful elites really require Mend Pet at all.
1 Like
I’m going make this simple.
- Get better gear.
- As a BM hunter use the ferocity pet preferably a Clefthooves
- If you must control your pet. The pet AI is sub par and never was reliable in the first place.
I’ll try a Clefthoof.
And the acid was from the skyrays in Nazjatar. I think it does % dmg or something nuts.
I’ll miss the mend pet for ganks, but leech might even out.
1 Like
Shale Spiders reduce Magic Damage taken and Krolusks reduce physical damage taken.
Neither of those are ferocity unfortunately.
Spirit beast is great in dungeons/raids and a decent option for pvp, but for solo pve stuff (or any situation your pet is tanking) ferocity is king by miles, leech just brings in way more heals for your pet than spirit mend + extra stamina, and the gap increases significantly if you are fighting multiple enemies.
Corehound and clefthoof are the standout BM tanking pets.