Man, this is so cool, what the hell! Why didn’t I run a hunter from the beginning? I love this and immersion-wise it makes a lot of sense that the hunter would learn his pets abilities from watching them fighting.
I tamed a bear that had claw and managed to taught my cat that has been with me since level 10(level 18 now) claw.
Nice blog, dude! How do I sub?
Going to make “Diary of a Night Elf Hunter, Part 1 - Taming beasts”.
I recommend Petopedia as it will tell you which animals actually have abilities you can learn and teach to your other pets. Otherwise, you will end up constantly taming and retaming every new animal you lay your eyes on and being disappointed as a lot of them do not teach you anything at all. Example, you can tame a cat that might literally have no abilities by default. There are bears/wolves without bite, cats without claw/bite/prowl, etc.
Without Petopedia, you will just end up running around doing trial and error on every beast in Azeroth.
Each pet type is WAY limited in what skills it can learn. I spent an hour at the petopia website figuring it all out.
Most pets can learn bite and claw. Charge (boars) and thunderstomp (gorillas) are only 1 type of animal. Prowl is only 30+ cats. Dash is 30+. My raptor (dino T-rex) pet can only learn bite, claw, growl, cower.
Site’s called Petopia.
I always found training pets one of the biggest perks to being a Classic WoW hunter. I really don’t like taming pets like pawns so I can learn something to teach to my favorite pet, because that means I have to abandon a pet. PETA would definitely not approve, but it’s the name of the game. In the end, your pet is one of your best companions and if you treat it right it will kick butt.
Love that site
And then it begins as you leave a trail of abandoned pets in your wake after you have learn what you can from your ‘former pet’.