Hunter Pets Guide - WoW Classic

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Only the Beast pet family is tamable. Other pet families have not been introduced yet.

You can only tame a pet that is equal to or lower than your own level.

If you tame one that's much lower level than you, it won't automatically adjust to your level. It will need to level up and you may need to adjust your targets accordingly if it's much lower level than you.

Trait de chocPiqûre de wyverneAspect du singePiège givrantMétamorphoseHibernationFeeding your Pets in WoW ClassicPet Happiness and Loyalty

Happy: 125% damage

Content: 100% damage

Unhappy: 75% damage

(level)*(loyalty-1)

Rebellious: Very low loyalty. Failing to feed the pet, dismissing it frequently, or getting yourself or the pet killed repeatedly has a high probability of the pet abandoning you. You cannot get the pet back if this happens; you'll have to tame another one. Pay strict attention to your pet's Happiness meter.

Unruly: Your pet is still not convinced, so you'll need to keep treating it well and not abusing its trust. It can still leave you at this stage.

Submissive: The pet is more willing to put up with some bad luck occasionally, and needs less food to keep it happy.

Dependable: Loyalty is still improving and food requirements are continuing to go down.

Faithful: Less food is required, and the likelihood of running off is very slim. It would require concerted effort at this point.

Best Friend: Highest loyalty is the ultimate goal. The pet requires the least amount of food to keep happy and goes longer between feedings. Happiness is no longer a struggle to keep up.

Pet Food

Bread - Typically conjured by Mages or sold by vendors. Examples: Pain invoqué, Pain sorti du four

Cheese - Sold by Cheese vendors. Examples: Cheddar affiné, Roue de fromage de fête

Fish - Fished up from seas and ponds. Also sold by Fish Vendors. Easiest food to get for yourself in the wild because you can fish almost anywhere. Examples: Lutjan à longue mâchoire cru, Poisson de la moisson

Fruit - Sold by Fruit vendors or dropped by some mobs. Example: Pomme rouge brillante, Banane de Tel'Abim

Fungus (Tête de champignon sylvestre) - Sold by Fungus vendors and dropped by some mobs.

Meat (Flanchet de viande) - Dropped by certain mobs and sold by Meat vendors, like Poulet rôti. Can also be Cooked, even though your pet can't eat the raw ingredients; Viande de coyote is not edible but Steak de coyote is.

Connaissance des bêtesFun fact: OursCrocilisqueHyèneTortueSerpent des ventsLoup

Pet Family

Bread

Cheese

Fish

Fruit

Fungus

Meat

Pet Training in WoW Classic

Stable your current pet.

Go out into the wild to tame a beast that knows the skill you want your pet to learn.

Take your newly tamed beast out in the wild and use the skill. Make sure you bring food that pet will eat!

Fight with that new pet alongside you until you learn the new skill.

Once you have learned the desired skill, you can abandon that pet.

Return to the stable, get out your new pet, and use training points to teach that pet the new skill.

Morsure - Bite the enemy, dealing additional damage.

Charge - Charge the enemy, immobilizing them for 1 sec and adding additional damage to your pets next attack.

Griffe - Claw the enemy, dealing additional damage.

Dérobade - Deals no damage, but lowers your threat generation.

Célérité - Increases movement speed by 50% for 15 sec. Does not break prowling.

Plongeon - Increases movement speed by 40% for 15 sec.

Hurlement furieux - Party members receive additional damage on their next physical attack.

Souffle de foudre - Breathe lightning instantly dealing nature damage.

Rôder - Puts your pet in stealth, but slows its movement speed by 50%. Your pets next attack will deal 20% bonus damage.

Poison de scorpide - Inflicts nature damage, stacking up to 5 times on a target.

Hurlement - Deals moderate damage and lowers the physical damage dealt by all enemies within melee range for 4 sec.

Carapace bouclier - Reduces all damage your pet takes by 50% but increases the time between your pets attacks by 43%.

Grondeterre - Shakes the ground dealing damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

You can only teach your existing pet an ability it is able learn.Connaissance des bêtesPlongeonPet Abilities from Classic Trainers

Grondement Your pet taunts the target, increasing the likelihood attacks will be directed at your pet.

Endurance supérieure - Increases your pets Stamina.

Armure naturelle - Increases your pets Armor.

Résistance aux Arcanes - Increases Arcane resistance.

Résistance au Feu - Increases Fire resistance.

Résistance au Givre - Increases Frost resistance.

Résistance à la Nature - Increases Nature resistance.

Résistance à l'Ombre - Increases Shadow resistance.

Spending Training PointsDressage des bêtesClassic Petopia

Max Rank Pet Ability

Source

Pet Level

TP Cost

Morsure R8

Worg Bloodaxe

Charge R6

Pourceau pestiféré

Griffe R8

Hurleur du Berceau-de-l'Hiver, Ancien Croc acéré

Dérobade R6

Jeune sabre-de-givre, Chauve-souris pestiférée monstrueuse

Célérité R3

Many beasts including Worg Bloodaxe and Chasseresse sabre-de-givre

Plongeon R3

Many beasts including Rejeton d'Hakkar and Chouette du Berceau-de-l'Hiver

Hurlement furieux R4

Worg Bloodaxe

Souffle de foudre R5*

Sapeur Hakkari, Arash-ethis, Rejeton d'Hakkar, Aile-de-givre hakkari

Rôder R3

Traqueur jaguero, Traqueur sabre-de-givre

Poison de scorpide R4

Scorpide queue-de-feu, Krellack, Pinceur Cinglepierre, Ecorcheur Cinglepierre

Hurlement R4

Chauve-souris pestiférée monstrueuse, Hurleur du Berceau-de-l'Hiver

Carapace bouclier R1

Kresh, Pêcheur Aku'mai, Ghamoo-ra, Gueule d'acier d'Aku'mai, Gueule d'acier

Grondeterre R3

Foudroyeur d'Un'Goro, U'cha

Souffle de foudreFils d'Hakkar Hunter Pet Categories in WoW Classic

Defense Pets - Defensive pets typically have higher health or armor and can withstand more attacks. It will generally have a slower attack speed and deal slightly less damage. Typically defense pets aren't very useful except for boars that may be used in PvP.

Offense Pets - Usually deal more damage than other pets but typically have less health or armor. Offense pets also will generally have a faster attack speed and generate more threat. A strong choice for open-world content or PvP.

General Pets - These pets are fairly sturdy and deal a moderate amount of damage. They are decent at both tankiness and DPS but are not excellent in either. General pets such as Wolves are typically best suited for raiding.

Pet Family

Pet Category

Special Ability

Chauve-souris

Offense

N/A

Ours

Defense

N/A

Sanglier

Defense

Charge

Charognard

General

N/A

Félin

Offense

Rôder

Crabe

Defense

N/A

Crocilisque

Defense

N/A

Gorille

Defense

Grondeterre

Hyène

General

N/A

Chouette

Offense

N/A

Raptor

Offense

N/A

Scorpide

Defense

Poison de scorpide

Araignée

Offense

N/A

Haut-trotteur

Defense

N/A

Defense

Offense

General

Pet Stat ModifiersFélinChouetteHurlementRôderOursTortueCarapace bouclier

Pet and Stat Modifiers Table

Health

Armor

Damage

Chauve-souris

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

Ours

1.08 (High)

1.05 (Medium)

0.91 (Low)

Sanglier

1.04 (High)

1.09 (Medium)

0.90 (Low)

Charognard

1.00 (Medium)

1.05 (Medium)

1.00 (Medium)

Félin

0.98 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.10 (High)

Crabe

0.96 (Low)

1.13 (High)

0.95 (Low)

Crocilisque

0.95 (Low)

1.10 (High)

1.00 (Medium)

Gorille

1.04 (High)

1.00 (Low)

1.02 (Medium)

Hyène

1.00 (Medium)

1.05 (Medium)

1.00 (Medium)

Chouette

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

Raptor

0.95 (Low)

1.03 (Low)

1.10 (High)

Scorpide

1.00 (Medium)

1.10 (High)

0.94 (Low)

Araignée

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

Haut-trotteur

1.05 (High)

1.00 (Low)

1.00 (Medium)

Tortue

1.00 (Medium)

1.13 (High)

0.90 (Low)

Serpent des vents

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

Loup

1.00 (Medium)

1.05 (Medium)

1.00 (Medium)

Pet Attack SpeedsSpell Push BackThreat GenerationDefense Hunter Pets in Classic WoW

Ours

Health: High
Armor: Medium
DPS: Low
Diet: Bread, Cheese, Fish, Fruit, Fungus, Meat
Abilities: Morsure, Griffe
Family Ability: None

Sanglier

Health: Medium-high
Armor: Medium-high
DPS: Low
Diet: Bread, Cheese, Fish, Fruit, Fungus, Meat
Abilities:Morsure, Célérité
Family Ability: Charge

Crabe

Health: Low
Armor: High
DPS: Medium
Diet: Bread, Fish
Abilities: Griffe
Family Ability: None

Crocilisque

Health: Low
Armor: High
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fish, Meat
Abilities: Morsure
Family Ability: None

Gorille

Health: High
Armor: Low
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: Morsure
Family Ability: Grondeterre

Scorpide

Health: Medium
Armor: High
DPS: Low
Diet: Meat
Abilities: Griffe
Family Ability: Poison de scorpide

Haut-trotteur

Health: High
Armor: Low
DPS: Medium
Diet: Cheese, Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: Morsure, Célérité
Family Ability: None

Tortue

Health: Medium
Armor: High
DPS: Low
Diet: Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: Morsure
Family Ability: Carapace bouclier

Offense Hunter Pets in WoW Classic

Chauve-souris

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: Morsure, Plongeon
Family Ability: Hurlement

Félin

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Fish, Meat
Abilities: Morsure, Griffe, Célérité
Family Ability: Rôder

Chouette

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Meat
Abilities: Griffe, Plongeon
Family Ability: Hurlement

Raptor

Health: Low
Armor: Medium
DPS: High
Diet: Meat
Abilities: Morsure, Griffe
Family Ability: None

Araignée

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Meat
Abilities: Morsure
Family Ability: None

Serpent des vents

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Bread, Cheese, Fish
Abilities: Morsure, Plongeon
Family ability: Souffle de foudre

General Hunter Pets in WoW Classic

Charognard

Health: Medium
Armor: Medium
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fish, Meat
Abilities: Morsure, Griffe, Plongeon
Family Ability: Hurlement

Hyène

Health: Medium
Armor: Medium
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fruit, Meat
Abilities: Morsure, Célérité
Family Ability: None

Loup

Health: Medium
Armor: Medium
DPS: Medium
Diet: Meat
Abilities: Morsure, Célérité
Family Ability: Hurlement furieux

Recommended Hunter Pet Families for WoW Classic Endgame ContentWolvesHurlement furieuxCatsWind SerpentsSouffle de foudreSouffle de foudreBoarsChargeBest Hunter Pets in WoW Classic BrèchedentFils d'Hakkar

Wolves from LBRS

Loup are the best PvE pet to have due to Hurlement furieux. You can get Furious Howl from any wolf, however, the ones from LBRS have the highest rank of Furious Howl that you can obtain in Phase 1 (The wolves in AV also have it, but that's not being released until a later Phase). While not required, taming these to obtain the highest rank of Furious Howl is highly recommended if you plan to raid.

Brèchedent

Broken Tooth belongs to the Félin family. Like most cats, this is an offense-oriented pet. The reason Broken Tooth is desirable is due to abnormally fast attack speed. Broken Tooth has the fastest attack speed of any pet in the game, clocking in at 1 attack per second (compared to that have attack speeds ranging from 1.2-2.5). Broken Tooth does not deal additional damage compared to other cats, since the attacks only hit half as hard. Broken Tooth's insane attack speed is amazing for causing spellpush back during PvP and maintains a large amount of threat while in the open world.

Fils d'Hakkar

Son of Hakkar is an offense pet. It belongs to the Serpent des vents pet family and has the unique ability Souffle de foudre. Because Lightning Breath is nature damage, it ignores armor, unlike physical attacks. Aside from being a Wind Serpent, Son of Hakkar is unique because taming the Son of Hakkar is the only way to learn Souffle de foudre (Rank 6). I highly recommend taming Son of Hakkar. Of course, technically once you learn the spell, you can tame any Wind Serpent but this requires an additional stable slot!

Commentaires

Commentaire de Wixman1234

Lupos will probably not have shadow damage (edit: he does not, as expected). In 1.9 all pet damage was made physical and all the other fun things were removed, like the run speed of the rare raptor, and the 100 resists of the black wolf then or before. All the rare pets will be pretty much just standard pets with the exception of brokentooth and the ZG bat attack speeds, so no reason to run around like a headless chicken and farm pets. Just get what you want, like a scorpion to protect viper sting vs casters, BT or a ZG bat, and a boar and call it good. Wolf for raids 100%.

Quick afternote: The way Blizzard numbers their patches isn't the way we typically expect vs regular "numbers". e.g. patch 1.9 is the 9th update patch after 1.0, so 1.12 would be the 12th patch. Therefore 1.9 is before 1.12 (the classic patch level), even though our math teachers would cringe, yes. ;)

Commentaire de batossai89

I'm only leaving this comment as an note for those struggling to find where to get there next ranks of pet abilities.
I'm not the owner of this website but I feel I should link it here, as well as give them a good shout-out to the work they've done over the years for hunters, so other hunters who read up here can use it in addition to the information/opinions here.

Petopia!

This website has a nearly complete list which pet have what abilities and which zone to find them in.

Also on Petopia has this helpful list of pets organized by attack speeds.

Also, as a side note, and this is purely personal but I've always found Carrion Birds as great dungeon/leveling/soloing pets.
They have Bite, Claw and a Sprint like Felines, but they also have the ability Screech.
Lowering the attack power of enemies can be really useful in while soloing/leveling or in dungeons where they debuff limit isn't being contested.
Screech makes your Bird, or dungeon's Tank, a lot tankier. Removing 100 attack power of all enemies around your pet should not be understated.
Remember that enemies losing attack power effects them quite a bit.

Commentaire de Z146

Patch 1.3.0 patchnotes:

Fixed a bug where creatures were keeping their innate resistances after being tamed. This was unintentional and the fix will affect all existing pets.

Snarler won't have his resistances when WoW Classic (based on patch 1.12.0) is released.

Commentaire de NerfedGimp

is wind serpents lighning breath damage scales with "caster" type stats? worth it in pve/pvp?

Commentaire de Roxtoni

What is the best pet to leveling? Clampant de l'écume incrusté is said to be the best up to level 30. Truth?

Commentaire de Vorishgo

Thanks for that guide. Really good!

Please add:
- hunter pet gain exp only if player also get it (or doing not gray, but green+ kills) It's important for those ppl, who powerlvl low-lvl pets.
- add info about stables, how many pets player can get into, what price and at what lvl.
Thank you again :)

Commentaire de RykerXXX

Just wanted to ask if you would add Aspect of the Monkey as another ability to use when taming. Works wonders.

Commentaire de SeeonX

What about if a pet has an ability they can start off with negative points.

Commentaire de Char

I didn't have any money leveling so when I saw the harvest festival was up outside orgrimmar, I decided I would use that free food for my pet instead. This guide did mention harvest fish if your pet eats fish but the Harvest Boar food works for my meat eating pets. Not that its expensive but its one less thing to spend money on at the moment especially if your not running around with someone who can conjure food.

Commentaire de JohnPombrio

Each pet needs to level their basic traits on a regular basis by either training at a pet trainer OR BY getting a trait (new or an upgrade) by temporarily using another pet with that particular level of trait.
Petopia has a list of of the available traits, what kind of pet they can be taught to, each trainable pet in the world for that particular trait and level, what upgrade trait(s) this new pet is capable of teaching, where they are located, and the level that they can be trained at:
https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/abilities.php

Note that MOST of the traits require training points! Guard these training point zealously and do not learn all the new traits you have (I skip the resistances spells myself). You can redo these training points but at a cost. The nice thing is that you GET PAID BACK the training points that you have spent for the previous traits so It may SAY 17 points but will only cost you 4. A new trait will cost what it says it will cost.Try clicking on your new trait to see if you can actually afford the new trait.

Note that it is complicated to learn these new skills for your pet! First, your hunter has to be at or above the level of the pet you wish to train for that new or upgraded trait(s). Next you must stable the pet you want to train and take your previous temporary trained pet or just grab a new temporary pet while going to get your new pet with the trait you wish to learn. Make sure to train your temporary pet so it has things like growl in case you have to fight while traveling to the area that has your desired new training pet.

Go to where Petopia says the pet you wish to get the new traits from, find one at your level, abandon your temporary pet and train your desired pet.
You DO NOT immediately "learn" that new trait say Dash level 1. You only can get this trait when you have USED this new pet for a while and the magic words "You have learned new skill Dash" appear in YELLOW in the general dialogue bar!

Now swap out the pets at the stable master. In your slingshot training window, the new trait should now appear. IF the trait is one that your pet can use AND you have the necessary points AND your pet level is high enough, you can now learn that upgraded or new trait. Note that the cost may be MUCH LOWER due to the refund of your previously learned traits for that upgraded trait so try to learn it and see if you have enough points. Now you pet can learn and use this new trait as long as the pet is AT THAT LEVEL. You pet may be at level 29 but the trait may only be learned at level 30. Check your pet level and how long to the new level in the character pane under the Pet tab.

Remember that your pet can learn many traits. They are listed in the Pet tab in your spellbook (P) screen. Some are passive so they are automatically being used. As for ACTIVE traits, only 4 can be active at any time due to limitations of the pet action bar so you may need to choose. You use active traits by dragging them into a slot on your pet action bar and the ORDER of them on the bar matters. Note that some traits you will learn cannot be used with your particular pet. Only active traits that have been ACTIVATED (with a swirl around them) AND are on your pet action bar are being used. Arrange the order of the traits from right to left to maximize their potential. On my pet cat, I have dash first, then growl, then bite, and finally claw. You can turn them "on or off' by right clicking on them so that the swirl stops (like turning off Growl when partying with a tank but make sure you turn it back on when soloing again). Once again Petopia has this full explanation but not quite as clear as I have written. Thanks to the Petopia folks for their terrific guide.

Commentaire de TegoZanduba

For me, the most important thing when deciding on a pet is the sounds that it makes. If it is going to be running next to me for days and days of my life, it sure better not make weird noises occasionally, or breath to heavily.

Commentaire de Vorishgo

For those trying to raise loyality of fresh tamed 60 lvl pet.
Just fight with 50+ lvl mobs when your pet is happy (green indicator) => loyality will raise to cap (Best Friend) eventually.

Commentaire de Mentakh

I would like to comment on the classification of the pets in Offensive, General (Balanced) and Defensive.

I am not sure who came up with this classification, but in practice there are some inconsistencies in this article as to where some pets belong.

A more consistent Summary of Pets :

Offensive (Low Tank, High DPS) :
Cat, Raptor, Bat, Owl, Spider, Wind Serpent

Balanced (Medium Tank, Medium DPS) :
Gorilla, Tallstrider, Carrion Bird, Hyena, Wolf, Crocolisk.

Defensive (High Tank, Low DPS) :
Crab, Scorpid, Bear, Boar, Turtle.

I'll show this by example of the Gorilla:
The Gorilla is in practice not a Defensive pet but a General balanced pet like a Wolf.
Comparing the stats between a Gorilla and Wolf:

Gorilla :
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 1.04 - Armor mod : 1.00.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = High and Armor = Low, overal Defensive = Medium
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 1.02 = Medium
Tanking bias abilities : Thunderstomp AoE Damage for AoE Tanking.
Passive abilities : Same as Wolf and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.
Wolf :
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 1.00 - Armor mod : 1.05.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = Medium and Armor = Medium, overal Defensive = Medium
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 1.00 = Medium
Single DPS bias abilities : Dash.
Passive abilities : Same as Gorilla and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.

So when comparing the stats, Gorilla's are slightly higher DPS and nearly equal Defensive compared to Wolves. With the ability to AoE damage they have slight tanking advantage on multiple targets. But overall clearly a General balanced pet like the Wolf.
To put things into perspective, below a real Offensive and real Defensive pet:

Cat
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 0.98 - Armor mod : 1.00.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = Medium and Armor = Low, overal Defensive = Low
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 1.10 = High
Single DPS abilities : In addition to Bite, they have Claw and also Dash.
Passive abilities : Same as Turtle and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.
Turtle
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 1.00 - Armor mod : 1.13.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = Medium and Armor = High, overal Defensive = High
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 0.90 = Low
Defensive abilities : Shell Shield
Passive abilities : Same as Cat and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.

Clearly the Cat is an Offensive pet with top DPS stats in addition to the DPS abilities Claw and Dash. The Tank stats are, together with the Raptor, the weakest in the game.
The Turtle is a clear Defensive pet with top Tanking stats, and the tank ability Shell Shield.

P.S. I see another inconsistency, the Boar's health is rated Medium-High while the Gorilla's health is rated High, while they have the exact same health modifier of 1.04. I give them both a rating of High health relative to the other pets. Furthermore I rate the Boar's armor High as well. To differentiate with other pets I rate the Turtle and Crab Very High in Armor and the Bear Very High in Health

Commentaire de Swingo

You can get Furious Howl from any wolf, however, the ones from LBRS have the highest rank of Furious Howl that you can obtain in Phase 1 (The wolves in AV also have it, but that's not being released until a later Phase).

I can confirm that the wolves in AV do NOT have Furious Howl 4 or any other special ability besides frost resistance.

Commentaire de TbeL

Dash - Increases movement speed by 50% for 15 sec. Does not break prowling.

You have used the wrong link to the Dash spell (1850). The correct one should be Dash (23099)

Commentaire de GuyWithCoolName

i scrolled all the way down but couldn't find the levels for pet talents. D:

Commentaire de Wyr3d

All hunter pets have active, and passive abilities they can learn. The active skills differ depending on the pet you have, while the passive abilities are the same for all pets. Please be aware that just because your pet can learn a skill, they does not mean you should teach it. With the exception of the skill Growl, these skills are taut using trainer points, which have a limited number both initially, and although the increase as your pet's loyal increases have a finite number so you will not be able to teach skill/ranks that a pet can learn

Lets take the popular cat pet as an example:

Active Skills - these are learned in the wild from pet families that have the skill available.

Offensive
Bite - Bite the enemy, causing damage. (ranks 1-8) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Claw - Claw the enemy, causing damage. (ranks 1-8) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

Utility
Cower - Cower, causing no damage but lowering your pet's threat, making the enemy less likely to attack your pet (ranks 1-6) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Dash - Increases movement speed for 15 seconds. (ranks 1-3) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Growl - Taunt the target, increasing the likelyhood the creature will focus attacks on your pet. (ranks 1-7) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Prowl (cat specific skill) - Puts your pet in stealth mode, but slows its movement speed. The first attack from stealth receives a bonus to damage. Lasts until cancelled. (ranks 1-3) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

Passive Skills - these are taught by the pet trainer in major cities.

Buffs

Growl - Taunt the target, increasing the likelyhood the creature will focus attacks on your pet. (ranks 1-7)
Great Stamina - Increases stamina. (ranks 1-10) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Natural Armour Increases armour (ranks 1-10) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

Resistances

Arcane - Increases Arcane Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Fire - Increases Fire Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Frost - Increases Frost Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Nature - Increases Nature Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Shadow - Increases Shadow Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

The above skills are those availabe to a cat pet either through the pet trainer, or learned off a pet in captivity. As the pet's level increases, more skills/ranks are available and the pet can upgrade existing ones, the existing skills' cost being refunded. At level 60, the pet will have 300 to spend at max loyalty.

The has has a choice of two offensive skills, and the pet can learn both, however bare in mind that with both learned, a huge chuck of the focus pool is devoted to attacking, leaving little left over for other active skills. Of the two, bite is the better in overall performance, so this should be taken over claw if you choose one only.

Of the three utility skills, Cower is pretty much pointless as the majority of the time you will want your pet to take aggro, and in the rare occassions you do not want your pet to take aggo, you would be better off either not sending it into combat in the first place, or dismissing it entirely. Dash is good for mobility, and should always be taken if the pet family has access to it, except perhaps for Boars which have the Charge offensive skill that kinda doubles as a Dash, and although they can learn it do not really need it. Prowl is a cat family specific skill, and is situationally useful, but more of an option than a must have. It does provide a 50% damage boost on the intial attack out of stealth however.

For buffs, Growl is a free skill, and should always be taken at max possible. Without growl, your pet can easily lose aggro, so it should always be taken. The remaining two are Great Stamina, providing a flat increase to the health pool, and Natural armour, which decreased physical damage taken.

Lastly the resistances all have the same effect of decreasing the amount of damage your pet takes from that particulat school of magic.

Bite rank rank 8 = 25 points
Claw -
Growl rank 7 = 0 points

Cower -
Dash Rank 3 = 25 points
Prowl Rank 3 = 25 points

Natural Armour Rank 10 = 150 points
Great Stamina Rank 6 = 75 points

Total = 300/300

This pet would be great against melee, and reasonably well against solo casters, but poor against multiple casters due to a lack of any magic resistances.

Rank for in any school of magic provides 120 resistance in that field - however, this costs 90 points to achieve. At this point you should consider which schools of magic would be most useful to resist, and that really depends on personal preference; Fire magic is versatile, and dominent in the game, but Frost often slows the pet down. Nature is typically stackable dots, whereas shadow can incapacitate, and arcane tends to be hard hitting solo casts.

That said a better build (for leveling) might be as follows:

Bite rank rank 8 = 25 points
Claw -
Growl rank 7 = 0 points

Cower -
Dash Rank 2 = 20 points
Prowl Rank 1 = 15 points

Natural Armour Rank 7 = 75 points
Great Stamina Rank 6 = 75 points

Frost Resistance Rank 3 = 45 points
Shadow Resistance Rak 3 = 45 points

Total = 300/300

With this build there is a good chance that the pet will resist most attempts to incapacitate it, while still having relatively strong armour, and while the utilities are weaker, they are still available if needed (which is not often in leveling in any case)

Commentaire de Ruisku

Once your current pet uses the ability enough times, chat will have message: "You have learned a new spell: Claw (Rank 2)." for example. No loyalty level required. Only after that your pets can learn this ability.

Commentaire de Bogdanov89

Thanks for the guide.
Can you please explain do pets in WoW vanilla/anniversary (before the burning crusade) benefit from any of the hunters agility or ranged attack power?

Commentaire de PanzersSkywall

Boars can also eat conjured food from Mages. :)

Commentaire de barcs

Charge R6 seems to be broken. Tried numerous mobs using the charge and it just won't learn, whether you use it before combat or mid combat.

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