Depends on play style. I preferred to always use him as a real tank and heal him and so it took longer but guaranteed win. When my wolf tanked he would die if we got 3 mobs pretty quick.
Well I mean if it’s making you mad just try another class.
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melee hunter is so strong it even out pull rank 3 growl
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It’s weird how the narrative went from “it’s easy” straight to “it’s stupid.” I think maybe the game takes more attention than zoomers and retailers thought, and maybe raid bosses or dungeons with dozens of gimmicks isn’t the only way an mmo can be challenging
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is it me or does pet aggro not even a thing? when a MISS SHOT can pull aggro …ya
You have to manually train your pet to growl, and turn in on autocast. Also, as you level, you need to train it higher ranks of growl.
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In vanilla they didn’t have the three pet types. In fact, pets weren’t standardized at all, and some had wildly different attack speeds. This is why brokentooth was a popular rare pet to tame because it had an unheard of 1.0 attack speed.
In classic, You want a pet that has the moves dash or dive, so it will at least get to the mob quickly. Good choice for pets are wind serpents because their main attack is a ranged spell that ignores armor, or at higher levels, go for carrion birds which are a sort of jack of trades and can learn bite, claw, dive and screech.
Tested it tonight with my owl and mobs stuck to it like glue. I see no issues with pet aggro.
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Or charge. I remember being quite happy with my rfk boar, far superior to anything I had before which included brokentooth.
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I’ve heard owls are the OP pet saddly horde can’t get one easy. Cause if a auto shoot can pull aggro have fun tryign to use aim shot.
This is an old post, but you know you have to learn growl yeah? Your pet (most of the time) won’t just start with it.
Have had no problems with my classic hunter. dunno.
Wrath made tanking into easy mode all around. One of the big changes they did was that by just having most of your talent points in a tank spec, that class now did 300% more threat on every ability and even white damage. Some bad players still complained and said they would lose agro so blizzard made it into the face-roll that tanking is to this day on retail by increasing the modifier to 500%. That’s not counting the AoEs that every tank spec was given too and the damage increases…
Haven’t had any issues with aggro. Have to let your pet get initial aggro before you shoot.
It’s the equivalent of a couple sunders. Think of your pet as a tank.
Cats are fine, in fact they’re excellent pets for world questing. Keep their Growl (and Great Stamina and Armor skills) trained regularly). If you have trouble with Growl behaving correctly on autocast, then use a macro for it to go on when you need it:
#showtooltip
/cast Growl
/petautocaston Growl
Turn it off again with:
/petautocastoff Growl
These are also great to have in dungeons.
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THAT’S the problem! You need to train your pet to go: Up up, down down, left right, left right! 
All kidding aside though, if your pet doesn’t have Growl, you should probably train it. And give it a chance to get agro before you start shooting. You’ll also want a tanky pet, rather than a dps pet if you really want it to be able to take hits while gaining agro. Tanky pets are bears & turtles, maybe also gorillas?
You really only need tank pets when solo’ing dungeons and stuff like that. DPS pets are fine for world content as long as their training is kept up.
I look forward to learning the ins & outs of being a hunter this time around. I even hope to get Rok’delar someday!
I would guess if I wanted to stick with a cat or bird, I’d want the Stamina training & of course Dash. I’ll have to hit up Petopia again!
Yep, definitely. Petopia even has a Classic section now:
https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/
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oh it is rank 4 right now wait till about 90% and then 2-3 auto’s and mobs in my face.
Don’t forget that pets don’t have Growl automatically learned/equipped when you tame them! You have to teach it to them. That was what I had to re-learn, and was why for the first two days I didn’t understand why my pet wasn’t holding aggro.