What pets did you get?Follow

On my first hunter, my very first pet was a Durotar Tiger, which I got at level 12.

I was a NE, on a PvP server. This required me to run all the way from Teldrassil, through Ashenvale, through the Barrens, and through Durotar to the Echo Isles.

It was really the best memory I have of this game. WoW is my first MMO, and I had no idea how huge the world was. My RL friends who were, I think, level 30 or so at the time, took me to show me the way. I would Hunter's Mark everything I saw "just in case it attacked". We ran into those high 20s elementals in Ashenvale and I thought they were the scariest things ever. My escort quickly dispatched them of course.

We saw numerous Horde and I don't think I ever got ganked once. But then again, this was before the honor system and all that crap that completely destroyed PvP...

That tiger was very unique for that level on alliance and I got a lot of compliments.

Other pets over my Hunter Career include: The Rake, Humar, BT, Death Flayer, black wolves from Hinterlands, frostsaber cubs (most beautiful pet in the game if you ask me), turtles, RFK boar, new EPL boar... and a few others i'm sure.

My Durotar Tiger and Humar are probably my favorites.

edit: btw, all pets have identical run speeds. Your Strider speed is probably just an illusion. :P

Edited, Wed Apr 26 10:53:05 2006 by KTurner

double >.<

Edited, Wed Apr 26 11:17:42 2006 by KTurner

Sure, the absence of Dash would be a slight pain, but I think the hightened Armor/Stamina would make up for it. A boar is one of those Middle type pets with less DPS than a cat and less armor/stamina than a bear.

I promise you she is the same speed as every other pet out there. Sad but true.

Aku'mai is the hydra at the end. You mean Gahmoora

Quoted from petopia.

Starting with patch 1.9, all pets have a base pursuit speed of 115%. There are no more slow pets, no more fast pets, no more very fast pets; they all have an average pursuit speed.

Kturners correct

My current pet is the ZG bat. Which used to have a 215% pursuit speed, allowing me to take chase down epic mounted players. I hate blizz for nerffing chase speeds.

Quoted from petopia.

One of most exciting additions for pet lovers in the 1.7 patch was the discovery in the new Zul'Gurub instance of a supersonic-speed level 60 bat, with a 1.0 attack speed.

Not a fan of classic monster movies, I take it?

haven't played my hunter in ages but I had Bangladesh & Sewer Beast. Croc is mostly for show and Bangladesh was back in the days when pet speeds applied. ~_~

At first I used spiders alot (not the fuzzy, fluffy ones, but the freaking looking ones) because they are pretty uncommon on my server. Then I got Humar. Decked him out with all PvP moves and nothing for aggro and BG with him and him alone. For instances i caught myself a carrion bird, just some regular one at first until I was high enough to get Spiteflayer. I love the birds for instances and PvE. Screech, growl, bite, and claw, and that thing will never lose aggro. i picked the bird instead of the owl because it has a bit more longevity. Would not trade either for the world =D

Right now I just use my moonstalker matriarch, because I like the colour scheme and it had the fastest attack for the skin... It's my all-purpose pet and can perform reasonably well in any circumstance... I plan on getting a boar and ZG bat later on as more specialized pets... ZG bat for group PvP, Boar for soloing and duel/world PvP, and rebuild my Cat towards kiting and instances...

At least that's the plan, whether or not it works out like that is a different story :P

I used a Black Bear until lvl 20. Then got old snooty until lvl 26 and got Ghamoo-ra as a tank now. When I hit 37 I'll get BT as my PVP/DPS pet and use Ghamoo-ra for tanking/solo.

I feel that my hunter’s pets, at least to some extent, are an extension of my personality. I like cats in real life so two of my seven pets are cats. And since every single pet available works well in PvE I chose the rest of my pets based upon look as well.

Durotar Tiger (http://petopia.morrowind4kids.com/bigpix/tigerskinred.jpg)
I chose this cat for my orc hunter’s first pet for two reasons. First, I find the orange and black strips very striking. The tiger model came out looking very good in this game. And second, Blizzard was kind enough to place low level tigers near the orc starting area. Tigers become more common once hunters reach STV, but I still don’t see tiger pets as often as I expected, even on the horde side. A lot of hunter tend to go for the Winterspring cats once they are high enough level. Personally I find all but the white cats there rather ugly. There’s jus something wrong with a blue cat.

Swamp Jaguar (http://petopia.morrowind4kids.com/bigpix/tigerskinyellow.jpg)
There are other cats that share this model skin, such as the cats in the Badlands, but I wanted the swamp jaguar. Perhaps they just stand out better in the swamp, but that’s where I first fell in love with this cat. They are just amazingly beautiful creatures. My male dwarf hunter tamed one as soon as he was high enough level and he’s been a happy hunter every since.

Rotting Agam'ar (http://petopia.morrowind4kids.com/bigpix/boarskinbluearmored.jpg)
The first time I saw someone in the IF bank with an armored boar I just had to find out where he tamed it. He wouldn’t tell me, but I eventually dug up the information. So when my orc hunger was high enough level I went in search of this extraordinary creature. There are three different colors available. The black one is my favorite. Boars make great pets. Like bears, boars will eat almost anything. But unlike bears, boars have personality. I hope Blizzard will one day make changes to the bear animations. But for the time being bears don’t do anything but swing their heads around a bit. They can’t even close their mouths. Boars, on the other hand, have fantastic animations. They sniff around on the ground for food and wiggle their little butts in the air. Simply put, boars are cute.

Deviate Crocolisk (http://petopia.morrowind4kids.com/bigpix/crocodileskinalbino.jpg)
When my male dwarf hunter, who was my first hunter, was young he encountered an amazing sight in the IF tram. A female NE hunter had a huge white crocalisk for a pet. It was the most amazing sight. I asked her about it and it turns out her pet was the sewer monster from Stormwind, a level 50 beast. But when I voiced my disappointment she not only told me where to find low level albino crocalisks, she escorted me to the Barrens and killed a path into the instance so that I could tame one of my very own. Crocalisks make good pets, but two things must be noted. Like many pets, crocalisks do not get dash. Dash is not required in PvE, but if you ever have a pet with dash/dive it’s very easy to become spoiled. But the main thing to keep in mind is that crocalisks are very noisy. They growl and they growl constantly. This has never bothered me, but I know it does bother some people.

Mazzranache (http://petopia.morrowind4kids.com/bigpix/tallstriderskinpink.jpg)
If you ever wanted a pink flamingo for a pet, this is your chance. It’s the only one in game and its level nine. So tame it early or deal with leveling it up. I’ve been very happy with my tallstrider. They make good pets even if their diet is a bit finicky. And having a pink bird running along side my female dwarf hunter has been lots of fun. It also led to me meeting a new friend. When I got to STV I found a female NE hunter leveling up her pink bird. We started talking and we’ve been talking and grouping every since.

Snarler (http://petopia.morrowind4kids.com/bigpix/wolfskinblack.jpg)
Speaking of good pet animations, wolves have great animations. Dire wolves have about as much personality as bears, but the smaller wolf models are nice to watch. Unfortunately, there aren’t very many color choices for the wolf model. But when I looked them up and found the black ones I knew what I wanted. So I went out and, after a couple of days of hunting, I tamed Snarler. He’s been a good pet and a lot of fun to run around with.

Black Widow Spider (http://petopia.morrowind4kids.com/bigpix/minespiderskinsteel.jpg)
I hadn’t planned on my female dwarf taming a third pet. A third pet is always a bad idea because having one will prevent us from learning any new pet abilities Blizzard may introduce. But when I tamed a level 25 black widow spider to see how it looked, well, I just couldn’t give it up. So not only did my hunter have a third pet, but this pet was level 25, the highest level black widow spider in game, and my hunter was level 55. Even with the changes Blizzard made, leveling up a pet like that is no easy feat. Still, now that she’s level 58 she looks even more amazing. I especially like how she looks in the snow. It was well worth the trouble of leveling her, but some day Blizzard is going to introduce new pet abilities and I won’t be able to learn them.

I am actually new to the hunter, got side tracked with my rogue for a while, but after getting to know the hunter a bit more, and digging in a bit, I have really started to love playing her. I like to toss in a liddle RP now and then, and decided to pull some RP based on the "Lads, Apollo and Zues" from Magnum PI roflmao. So, I went and Tamed Echeyakee (white lion) and Humar (black lion) and named the Apollo and Zues hehe. I have a great love for things that take a little work, and look great. Both of these lion fit the bill, and I have really enjoyed them.

I just tamed Takk the Leaper and really love the look of the black raptor! I have been told a few times now that he doesn't have any specials, and he really isn't worth it... but, for me, something that has a spark of fun, excitement, and a burst of neat'ness hehe is worth a thousand fold compared to a cookie cutter "best in class" pet.

I am having a blast, and for me that is all that counts. :)
-Kie
28 Nightelven Hunter, Shadow Council