I finally got around to playing my hunter again. It’s been months. I’d forgotten how nice it was to solo with a hunter. I decided that it’s time for me to go find a new pet. I like my owl but he has two problems: first he’s always blocking my view and second he has a really dumb name. The great things about the owl are that he’s pretty quick and he has no trouble holding aggro at all now at level 36. That’s also partly due to my hunter’s talent build (I know it says level 38 there, but I was mistaken - I’m still 36) I suppose, but it’s been a great combo for me. Still, for some variety I thought I’d like to try out a new beast.
I still want something fast that can hold aggro - my preferred style is to send in the pet, lay a trap and start an aimed shot. Now that I can lay traps in combat that part’s not as important. I have aimed shot on 9 so I do ctrl-1 then 9. By the time my aimed shot fires, the owl is already attacking and the mob is paying attention to them. Still my second attack is a concussive shot (which I keep on 8 for convenience) so that if the mob starts coming my way the owl can keep up.
I didn’t want to change my play style much with a new pet so I figured I’d still need something fast with a focus on DPS. I think this pretty much limits me to cats, owls and now the ravager. To be honest, ever since I first saw the ravagers when I started my shammy I thought one would make a good pet for my hunter. My hunter is still level 36, so I took a wild guess that the easiest way to get a ravager was to head on over to Azuremyst Isle and find one of the level 10 Ravager Specimens that I’d fought with my Shaman.
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