What pet for hunters?

[Cryptoze]

So I just made a 39 hunter and was curious what's the best Hunter's pet or what pet every one is using. I am using a spider right now since it seems to be nice at 19, but wasn't sure at 39...

 

[Flagadin]

petopia.brashendeavors.net/



All the pets (even rare ones) explained with skills..

 

[Druiddroid]

spider (4 second dispellable ranged snare)

hyena (6 second melee slow)

crab (4 second damage causing melee snare. longer CD than spider)

ravager (2 second melee stun)

bat (2 second AoE damage causing ranged stun. longer CD than ravager)

owl (6 second disarm)



came up with this off my head, if there's any more pets or corrections please feel free to post them. also, check out the above post by Flagadin for a more complete list.



IMO spider is the best pet.

 

[LULIMALION]

well he meant hyena not cheetah

 

[Druiddroid]

well he meant hyena not cheetah

fix' t

 

[Bansil]

all pets will have 5/5/5 modifiers. choose by special ability.



the ability should fit your playstyle.



look for pets that can be teamed 38/39...you do not have to focus on them.



if you focus on looks, you have to get some of em early.

cat:

echeyakee (cool for allys) http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_echeyakee.html

ghost saber http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_ghostsaber.html

bat:

white skin http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skins/skin_batskinwhite01.html

for example...



i had a cat/pure dps, wind serpent/ranged spell dmg, spider/ranged root.

if i could choose again: cat/spider/bat

 

[useabandage]

i would get an owl just so i could name it hooters

 

[Flagadin]

IMO spider is the best pet.

/agree. Snare is just too big of an advantage to ignore it..

 

[Bansil]

it is a root. and dispellable.

hunters are able to snare the world turnin, what they really need is control healers. a stun interrupts casting and is also viable to get some distance.



besides this i often used to run around with cat/wind serpent cause i wanted my pet to do dmg. with scatter and aimed shot and traps and conc and disengage...i had enough tools to care for myself. well, i had a dwarf hunter so stoneform helped a lot. antivenom and regen spots too.

 

[Naturaltalnt]

Snare/Root I never found appealing, espcially as a survival hunter.



I much pref the disarm/stun

 

[yesugie]

the stun is a much better option against casters and melee, and ravagers just look good too.

 

[Mother Goose]

the stun is a much better option against casters and melee, and ravagers just look good too.

A 20 yard ranged stun is even better against casters and melee, and bats just look good too.

 

[Fatapult]

pretty sure spider and crab snare have the same 40 second cd and both are dispellable. also crabs come with charge so they can essentially pin someone twice making them quite good imo. also dont forget snakes which spit mind numbing poison on people.

 

[Bansil]

web: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills_web.html (40sec)

pin: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills_pin.html (40sec/channeled)



tenacitiy: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/talents_tenacity.html (charge 1.tier)

cunning: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/talents_cunning.html (dash/dive 1.tier)



sonic blast: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills_sonicblast.html (ranged 2sec stun)

poison spit: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills_poisonspit.html (mind numb)



a stun can completely interrupt the spell. there may be situations for both, but the stun will help against any other opponent too.



i wish i had tried the croco...watching a LOSed rogued gettin snapped back while killing the croco would have been a lot of fun^^

http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills_badattitude.html

but yes, it is not viable at all.

 

[Druiddroid]

the stun is a much better option against casters and melee, and ravagers just look good too.

against casters, yes, but against melee, not really. a snare is better against melee because you can gain more distance with a 4 second web than a 2 second stun.

 

[Bansil]

yep, but it is dispellable and most of the time you can not choose your opponent.

overall a stun is superior to the web.



edit:

this does not take into account, that a melee may be the harder target and that you wont need the stun against a caster anyway...

well, interrupt a heal/fear/dmg cast is king when fighting casters. scatter may be on CD or you are sheeped.

 

[Druiddroid]

yep, but it is dispellable and most of the time you can not choose your opponent.

if the web is dispelled it will provoke a priest to waste mana and a GCD. also, a web is rarely dispelled anyways.

edit:

this does not take into account, that a melee may be the harder target and that you wont need the stun against a caster anyway...

well, interrupt a heal/fear/dmg cast is king when fighting casters. scatter may be on CD or you are sheeped.

true. to each their own. some people want to kite more, others want to interrupt casters. both the web and stun are good for their own situations. personally, i hate going up against a spider because if i get away from the hunter, chances are a well timed web will put the hunter back in range to concuss me. a stun has a lesser chance of doing so.

 

[Powerglove]

bat stun puts tidal charm on dr. use a ravager instead.



crabs are better than spiders bar vs classes with frontal avoidance



hunters dont have problems vs casters. the only class that should give them trouble is rogues.

 

[Lepidosteus]

Get Mazzaranche and name it Floyd ^_^



Dust Cloud is beyond amazing against rogues if timed correctly, but not that good against mostly everyone else.