Who refuses to give up their pet for a boar?Follow

i tamed Mangeclaw as soon as i could get there with my Dranae hunter. i love my bear... his name is Creampuff and he has yet to let me down. he eats anything and can really take a beatin. not to mention he is white with cool blue eyes.

he does however stand out like a sore thumb in ashenvale. it seems as long as i maintain the beast tree and make sure he has the very best growl he can, he can even hold aggro so long as i am careful.

i am new to the hunter class and by no means think bears are the best but from when i watched the orginal wow movie (the dwarf with the bear) i have always wanted one. i also have the clutch mother.. named blueberrie just cause shes a bit different. but i may give her up for a cat (solely for prowl) later. my daughter also has the clutchmother, shes ten and named her Bluenanner because she eats bananas. (dont worry, i dont let the ten year old run in pugs... she only plays with me). anyway we have alot of fun together.

live long... be well all

Raezir

myself I like my pet it is a ravager it does around 80-100 damage and has 4,200 armour at lvl 42 but i am also BM spec. I still think that is pretty good for a 42.

Edited, Apr 12th 2007 1:35pm by Amraspwns

Heh, named mine Azure.

Poor Azure is sitting in a stable... getting very tired of her stall.

The problems I have with bears are all Blizzard’s fault. How could they have put such a cool bear in that video and then completely ignore the bears they have in game? The main thing I don’t like about bears is that they seem incapable of closing their mouths. The poor things must become dehydrated very quickly. Blizzard needs to rework their model and give them some more animation. Bears also suffer from a lack of skills, as do many other pets. But as I have several pets that get nothing but bite and growl, I’ve obviously learned to live with it.



Tallstriders make good pets. Their diet is a bit picky, but the enjoyment of watching the big, bad monster get its butt kicked by an overgrown chicken makes up for it. *smiles* Cashara has leveled with her pink tallstrider, Sweetpea, from 11 to 65. The only thing that would make Cashara and Sweetpea more fun to play would be if she could ride a blood elf mount. A female dwarf riding a big purple bird with a pink tallstrider at her side would be soooo much fun.

How do I level up my pet so that it changes levels at about the same time as I do.
At the moment, my pet levels up when I am 50% to the next level.

thanks

Fredd

You can't. Your pet stops gaining exp the moment it catches up with you.



That's about right. It can level up sooner (compared to you) if you don't quest or don't have rest exp.

There’s nothing at all wrong with using a raptor for a pet. As can be seen in this thread, many people prefer other pets over a boar. But boars remain a good first pet to recommend to those who do not have a particular type of pet in mind.

Boars are common at low levels on both the alliance and the horde side.

Boars, like bears, are virtual garbage disposals. They will eat almost anything, making them very easy to feed from whatever food drops.

Most, if not all, boars start with charge. Many hunters, myself included, enjoy having their pet rush up to their target as quickly as possible. Boars are the only pets that can do this before level 32 when dash/dive become available. Charge also generates extra agro with its pseudo stun effect. I happen to prefer charge over dash, which share the same cool down, so I don’t even train my boar pets in dash.

Boars now also get gore. Like claw, this is a damage attack without a cool down.

Boars are a good defensive pet. Though they don’t do a lot of base damage (not counting what is added by gore) they have good armor and hit points.

Boars come in several skins, including three that look like they are wearing barding.

And, of course, boars have some of the better idle animations in game. Butt wiggle FTW. *grins*

Hips, listen to Cala. Cala is very fair and accurate.

FYI I started the "Boar Crusade," so you should take what I say with a grain of salt.

That admitted: to expand on something Cala mentioned, Boars are the ONLY pet w/ ground speed before lvl 32ish*, when some other pets get Dive or Dash (see Petopia @ Brashendeavors.net for more info on which).

Charge is really handy for the time savings alone. Once you try a pig and watch him virtually teleport to the target (it also makes an exciting noise! Whee-factor ftw!), you might find it hard to go back to any other pet. Speeding to target x 1000s of fights = a real time savings. For me it just makes grinding more FUN. I hate waiting. Plus the agro benefits (pig gets AP bonus, the 1 sec immobilize might add to pig's agro) are great -- plus it's nice for slowing people in pvp!

Boars are easy to feed, hold agro well, do okay damage w/ gore (consider one of the focus regen talents, gore eats up focus like claw), are tough (good ac and hp), and are easy to target around (they are small compared to many other pets), etc etc etc. Look, you have a stable. Your raptor is a fine pet and will serve you well. But if you're curious, stable him and try other pets. Loyalty, however - nothing wrong w/ that. The raptor will take you to 70 very nicely. So it's up to you.



* edit, I lie, you can get Beastial Swiftness before 32, but it's only 30% speed increase. That said, if you pvp, b.s. and charge work together. You would have one fast pig w/ those two things working in tandem.

Edited, Apr 16th 2007 4:22pm by IponemaGirl

I don't see what the big deal with boars are. I love my wolf and will not give him up. Also, I'm stubborn and won't get one because everybody else is "Oh, get a boar!" "They have charge!" "No pet is better than a boar!"

Correction. Wolves are just as good. :D
....I need to test drive a snake some time...

Boars do less damage. They're clearly not the best pets.

And so on. I originally had a boar because, well, boars and dwarves go together in my opinion, like night elves and cats. Having a long and slender kitty as a short and stout dwarf looks kind of odd.

I just need to find a cool-looking boar that won't take forever to grind up in level.

I plan on getting a boar, but I HATE the undead look...so it will be a pain to level up and camp Grunter, since he is the highest level Black Boar, and to me, regular black boars look cooler than the armored ones. It could just be because I'm a "tree-hugging hippie" Night Elf, as many of you say *grin*. But I like getting into roleplaying every now and then, and having a more "nature-like" boar just makes me feel like it's more "companionlike" to me =P.

But what would really be cool is if you could tame a hellboar, I mean, windserpents and raptors have "outland versions" now, shouldn't boars?

so i finally gave in to boar, and i must say he rocks