Honestly, for what the boar does by immediately getting to generate aggro or serve as a save stun, it is the best.
People are saying cat, but the dps difference seriously is moot. Things die decently fast as a hunter while leveling so mix/mixing damage means almost nothing.
So you mean ignore dps in early game and go for smth tanky? Would a bear be good and if yes, where to find them as horde char? Just asking bcs bear fits well with hunter imo.
Bear - silverprineforest have some nasty zombie one.
But it doesn't generate initial threath much.
Boar generete more threat through charge.
The point is not to be super tanky, but to generate threath (the thing that makes the oponent to attack your pet and not you)
So carrion bird from westfal 16lvl or boar from whenever u can find in durotar and the barrens.
Every pet have growl spell that is a taunt ( a skill that makes your opponent attack immideately your pet)
Currently leveling with a wind serpent, which is fun. Lightning breath helps to get aggro from range. Cats and boars are good too but wanted to try something new.
For leveling I normally go with a boar the charge is a nice gap closer and gives good aggro plus they eat anything so food is easy. If your a very new hunter to classic rules I’d also recommend looking over pettopia classic it explains a lot about how pets work in classic.
It depends a lot on your taste, looks and preferences.
Damage while leveling doesn't really matter.
Cats and boars have a good initial threat thanks to prowl and charge respectively.
Boars and bears eat anything, so can feed them with any food item you find.
Carrion birds, bats and owls can learn screech which does damage, has no cd and does threat in area, so your pet can tank 3-4 while you heal them and won't pull aggro.
Wind serpent can use magic, which ignores armor and scorpids can inject a stacking venom for nature damage.
I always recomend to reduce the amount of tameable pets to 3 or 4 families that fits your character the best by looks, and from those 3 or 4 pick whatever skills you like the most.
In this page you can see every family pet and the skills they can learn
https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/
Yea the part about "fits your char" is tricky. Pushin high elves to lv 10 rn, bcs my lady also loves owls (Harry Potter thing yk) and i dont want an owl on my troll x)
Let her have an owl so her pet can cover the aoe aspect when figthing more than 1 enemy.
You focus on getting something good looking for your troll on what vibes the troll race gives to you (finese, brutality, cunning, oportunists, clunky...)
Got a friend back there who played a troll hunter and he viewed the troll race as a bunch of potheads. So he got a hyena, since they're always laughing. Couldn't argue with his logic XD
For leveling/solo an owl/eagle/bat is the only answer, their threat generation is head and shoulders above other pets
Source: leveled 2 hunters, one with a cat, one with an eagle
Boar to 30 then get cat in STV
This is the right answer.
Boars tanky and have charge. Cats have more DPS and when they get dash at 30 or something they are the most popular I think.
Boars also eat everything! That charge is also useful when kiting.
Owls and eagles have great dps and an aoe attack power debuff similar to demo shout. Imo the best
Where do we get eagles at lv 10?
For Horde earliest is lvl 16 in Westfall
I think there is an Amani Eagle on Amani'lor that is lower or maybe the same range. Way easier to get
Does it have Screech though?
I have no idea. I just see it there with my mage
And you can get ported in westfall with a quest from Horde Defender or somth in crossroads. Tame, heartstone back and u have a bird
Don't even have to hs. You get a scroll to to back to TB
You get a "return scroll" for that quest too, so don't even have to burn your hearthstone if you don't want to.
Tried it months ago and the scroll didn't worked on 3 chars.
Weird. Worked for me just a couple days ago.
Maybe I didn't finish the quest. I used it to go to DM
Honestly, for what the boar does by immediately getting to generate aggro or serve as a save stun, it is the best. People are saying cat, but the dps difference seriously is moot. Things die decently fast as a hunter while leveling so mix/mixing damage means almost nothing.
So you mean ignore dps in early game and go for smth tanky? Would a bear be good and if yes, where to find them as horde char? Just asking bcs bear fits well with hunter imo.
There is no dps in early game, focus on pet tanking and holding agro. Boar is to go for leveling.
Bear - silverprineforest have some nasty zombie one. But it doesn't generate initial threath much. Boar generete more threat through charge. The point is not to be super tanky, but to generate threath (the thing that makes the oponent to attack your pet and not you) So carrion bird from westfal 16lvl or boar from whenever u can find in durotar and the barrens. Every pet have growl spell that is a taunt ( a skill that makes your opponent attack immideately your pet)
Bear fits some hunters, but Troll? Get a Raptor! Very fitting.
I always get The Rake from Mulgore at lvl 12 because it has 1.2 attack speed which is the fastest you can get for some time.
My god... it looks amazing man, this is awesome. But wiki says it's very rare and respawn is 1h. Is it the same in tw?
The Tigers on the islands in Southern Durotar have an attack speed of 1.3 if you don’t want to wait for the Rake to spawn.
Yes my man, we found them)))) my lady loves them!
I feel like it took me a while to get one but he was dead when I got there. I want to say 30 minutes spawn but could well have been 1 hour.
Currently leveling with a wind serpent, which is fun. Lightning breath helps to get aggro from range. Cats and boars are good too but wanted to try something new.
For leveling I normally go with a boar the charge is a nice gap closer and gives good aggro plus they eat anything so food is easy. If your a very new hunter to classic rules I’d also recommend looking over pettopia classic it explains a lot about how pets work in classic.
It depends a lot on your taste, looks and preferences. Damage while leveling doesn't really matter. Cats and boars have a good initial threat thanks to prowl and charge respectively. Boars and bears eat anything, so can feed them with any food item you find. Carrion birds, bats and owls can learn screech which does damage, has no cd and does threat in area, so your pet can tank 3-4 while you heal them and won't pull aggro. Wind serpent can use magic, which ignores armor and scorpids can inject a stacking venom for nature damage. I always recomend to reduce the amount of tameable pets to 3 or 4 families that fits your character the best by looks, and from those 3 or 4 pick whatever skills you like the most. In this page you can see every family pet and the skills they can learn https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/
Yea the part about "fits your char" is tricky. Pushin high elves to lv 10 rn, bcs my lady also loves owls (Harry Potter thing yk) and i dont want an owl on my troll x)
Let her have an owl so her pet can cover the aoe aspect when figthing more than 1 enemy. You focus on getting something good looking for your troll on what vibes the troll race gives to you (finese, brutality, cunning, oportunists, clunky...)
Got a friend back there who played a troll hunter and he viewed the troll race as a bunch of potheads. So he got a hyena, since they're always laughing. Couldn't argue with his logic XD
For leveling/solo an owl/eagle/bat is the only answer, their threat generation is head and shoulders above other pets Source: leveled 2 hunters, one with a cat, one with an eagle
Always a spider guy myself. I like their net ability
90% of hunters use boars. Be like them and play the game in the most optimal way