WoW Pet Guide

If you're playing a Hunter or a Warlock, your greatest assets are your pets. In this WoW pet guide I'll talk about how to get the best pets and how to use them in the best way for maximum effect.

The primary focus of this WoW pet guide is on the Hunter. Pets are so important for Hunters because the Hunter must make ranged attacks to cause maximum damage to enemies. While they are also vulnerable to close-up melee attacks. Pets serve the function of distracting opponents and acting as tanks (fighting close quarter melee combat to absorb damage and keep opponents occupied). It's the same with Warlocks who must keep their distance from opponents to blast them with magic.

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The fundamental difference between the pets used by Warlocks and by Hunters is that Warlock pets are Guardian Pets - they are summoned and will always do their master's bidding. Hunter pets are Companions - they are wild animals that are tamed and will fight by the Hunter's side as long as they are well-fed and happy.

Hunters use the Tame Beast ability to tame wild animals and convince them to follow them. As you spend more time fighting beside your pet and your loyalty to eachother grows, you can spend points on pet abilities, if you specialise in Beast Mastery. It's important to keep your pet happy as happier pets deal more damage! to keep it happy keep it well-fed. This is why fishing is a great profession for a Hunter to learn as it supplies free pet food at any time.

WoW Pet Guide for the Hunter

The animals your Hunter can tame and make a pet come in three different categories: Cunning Pets (versatile, fast fighters with useful abilities), Ferocity (pets all about damage) and Tenacity (animals with high health and very good at staying alive - Tanks).

Some Cunning Pets are bats, spiders, birds of prey, serpents, Silithids, ravagers, dragonhawks. Some Ferocity pets are wasps, carrion birds, raptors, hyenas, great cats and wolves. And some Tenacity pets are Bears, boars, gorillasm crabs, crokolisks and turtles.

Unforunately you can only have one pet with you at a time, but you can keep up to 4 in your stable. In this WoW pet guide, I'd recommend that it's usually best to go for a tenacity pet for tanking and defending you at the beginning. Tenacity pets are the best tanks and you need a tank for soloing as a Hunter. Get yourself a bear and you won't get attacked much - as this WoW pet guide is aimed more to beginner players, that's the number one piece of advice I want to give. In PvP you have other players to tank for you, so you can have more fun with the animals you keep. But that's later on in the game.

Some of the best pets in Azeroth are Exotic Pets - these you can only tame when you are level 51 in beast mastery. The Tenacity ones are the Rhino and worms. Cunning ones are Silithids and Chimeras. And the Ferocity Exotic Pets are Core Hounds, Devilsaurs and Spirit Beasts. There are plenty more rare beasts out there. It's a lot of fun tryig to find the best of them.

Here are some of my favourite rare animals out there, which you can try to tame: Kurmokk (lvl 42 Gorilla, find him in Stranglethorn Vale), King Krush (lvl 75 Devilsaur in the Sholazar Basin), Broken Tooth (lvl 37 cat in the Badlands), Grunter (lvl 50 Boar in the Blasted Lands) and Old Vicejaw (lvl 14 Bear in Silverpine Forest).

The Warlock learns to summon more and more powerful demonic creatures to his or her side as they progress. See the WoW Warlock Guide for a more detailed description of the demons.

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