I am using a core hound I picked up a few years ago lol, I use the Animal Companion talent which pets should I be using? Or any idea where I can read more on this.
It depends on the content you’re running. For open world and Torghast, a clefthoof is generally recommended. They have an amazing combination of abilities that make them really hard to kill. And since they’re Ferocity pets, having Primal Rage (aka. Heroism) is a nice DPS boost every ten minutes.
An argument could be made for any Cunning pet in open world due to the speed increase; so long as your not worried about your pet being noticeably squishier.
For raiding and M+, go with a Tenacity pet of your choice. Since all pet damage has been normalized, you’ll want the extra health and defensive cooldown these pets give you to be slightly less squishy. (Slightly…) Unless there’s no other member of your party with Heroism, then go back to you clefthoof.
I can’t answer as to PvP.
Side note: if you’re soloing higher levels of Torghast, take a talent other than Animal Companion. In order to make this talent not OP, there’s an invisible debuff that reduces the pets’ damage. While this is still normally a net gain, it does reduce the amount of damage your main pet does; and therefor reduces the amount of healing through leech.
Yes clefthoof is best for solo. Idk about raid since I only PvP so I can cover that section.
The 5 pets I use in my stable for PvP are:
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undead raptor
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regular beast raptor
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undead devilsaur
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scorpion (any beast ferocity will work)
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riverbeast
Generally in PvP you want pets with mortal wounds
I use undead against most comps except Ret pallies (most important bc wake of ashes stuns undead)
also run regular against pally/priest unless they have a Druid or hunter on team.
I use ferocity pets matches where I won’t get kited for the small leach heals and mostly the mini blood lust
I run tank pet (riverbeast) against exclusively rogue/mage and double dps burst comps
As for the animal companion you either want to use a regular beast (I use a normal raptor) or you can use mechanical. Don’t run undead as animal companion in PvP bc it will still get stunned by every ret Pally team