Hey since dinging 50, I feel my pets’ health goes down easier/faster. I know I can heal them and stuff, just curious. Never had to jerk an eye on their health this much before? Anyone experiencing the sand if something?
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I didn’t notice that when I was leveling my hunter. Warlock pets get absolutely destroyed, but that’s pretty much always been the case.
But make sure you’re using a Ferocity pet for their passive leech. Scalehides, clefthoves, core hounds, and gorillas generally make very good tanking/questing pets.
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Oh without a doubt. Ive had my pet seemingly one shot in ZM. Not sure how.
Glad I know it’s a normal thing lol
Clefthoofs are the absolute best leveling pets. You can’t go wrong
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Some mobs have abilities that bypass defenses and also sometimes buff themselves with damage modifiers. Get used to using mend pet. It’s an incredibly good spell. It heals a ton, it’s instant cast, and it has a low cooldown. Also watch for mobs self buffs and use Tranquilizing Shot to strip the buff off of them.
As you keep gearing your pet will get tougher but there are still mobs that can slap them around a little so don’t get lazy watching the pet’s health.
Also a neat little hidden trick with leech on the pet. Mend pet will also heal you a little bit as it’s healing the pet.
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Thanks for the advice!
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Pet stats are based on your ilevel gear, so as you level up and don’t upgrade anything you’re wearing it affects the pets. It’s a lot worse when you hit each game milestone like at level 50 then again at level 60; all levels before that are considered growth so you don’t notice as big of a difference. Get better gear then their health, armor, threat, and damage go up.
It’s dumb when you reach level 60 as there’s a sudden drop in power because you’re no longer leveling, but need to grow via upgrading gear which also affects the pets which go from doing well to everything hits like a boulder and your pet is paper.
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Oh boy. Damn kind if wished I knew that sooner. Get better gear/upgrade gear is basically how to solve the problem
I haven’t had any trouble tanking ZM mobs or rares with my clefthoof.
The only exception is that boss near the middle that has an infinitely stacking self buff to damage done which eventually gets to where he can’t be mitigated anymore, but that’s more because I’m soloing something built for a full group.
I’ve been feeling this. My crab is supposed to be a tanking pet but he dies pretty quickly at my level.
The problem is that tanking pets aren’t the best tanks.
It’s the dps pets that are, because their passive healing is better than the tank pet’s mitigation. Clefthoof is the very best one for this related to Rhino Blood increasing healing received on top of that bonus healing.
I could be wrong, don’t main hunter, but from my personal experience the Clefthoof is a much better tank than my frog.
I guess I’ll have to look for a dps pet that I like. Ty
My favorite pet for tanking is Corehound. You get Leech, a 50% damage reduction ability, and Thorns ability. MD+Barrage, manually pop the shield, then Multi-Shot spam to force Beast Cleave which allows the Corehound to heal via Leech, Thorns, and AOE spam.
Here is everyone talking about needing to use a clefhoof and here I am doing it all with a little bumblebee, lol
It never really matters what pet you use, just matters on your ilev and how strong the mob(s) your fighting are