Pet Classes

I started my boxing up in tbc and went with a trinity team, but in later expacs used pet teams to tank.. is this possible in Classic?

Could I have all pets with a healer?

My understanding is that due to a lack of /focus it is hard to be optimal with pet classes. I do have some 4+ pet teams (4 Warlocks+Priest) that I plan to take to 35+ but haven't focused on them yet. edit: pun not intended...

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Originally Posted by nodoze

My understanding is that due to a lack of /focus it is hard to be optimal with pet classes. I do have some 4+ pet teams (4 Warlocks+Priest) that I plan to take to 35+ but haven't focused on them yet. edit: pun not intended...

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I was thinking about this some the other day and it occurred to me you could get around this by using your primary target to control pets/CC and targeting DPS via macros.

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/cast [@party1target] Shadow Bolt

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This way you can retain your warlock targets while still "assisting" your current window. Not ideal as changing your group order or joining a raid will break it but it should work well enough for farming dungeons.

Thanks for the replies :)

Do you think the Lock pets could tank dungeons, or would Hunters be better?

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Originally Posted by Andreauk

Thanks for the replies :)

Do you think the Lock pets could tank dungeons, or would Hunters be better?

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A properly spec'd hunter pet should be tankier than a voidwalker and have higher DPS/TPS. However, warlocks are much stronger picks for boxing IMO.

The only thing that would prevent you from being able to clear dungeons is if the threat value on torment/growl is too low to keep agro on the pet. I know it worked on "unofficial" servers but we won't know whether those threat values were accurate until somebody tests it on classic. Put your first 8 talent points into demonology for improved voidwalker and give it a try.

I went with 4 Nelf Hunters with a Druid healer.. this will either be amazing or my biggest mistake lol!

I have a 5 man Undead Warlock farm team on Horde side :)

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Originally Posted by Andreauk

I went with 4 Nelf Hunters with a Druid healer.. this will either be amazing or my biggest mistake lol!

I will do Locks with a Priest healer next :)

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Tame one of the owls in the night elf starting area and hang on to it. Owls have solid tanking stats and can train screech which is a great AE threat generator for keeping mobs off your healer.

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Originally Posted by Apatheist

Tame one of the owls in the night elf starting area and hang on to it. Owls have solid tanking stats and can train screech which is a great AE threat generator for keeping mobs off your healer.

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1000x this. As horde I'm so jealous. :P

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Originally Posted by Apatheist

Tame one of the owls in the night elf starting area and hang on to it. Owls have solid tanking stats and can train screech which is a great AE threat generator for keeping mobs off your healer.

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Thanks for the tip I will do that :)

Any ideas for the other pets? I did see a couple of vids of a Kitty tanking Onyxia for a while..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkiDtWl3Q6A

Bat from Zul Gurub, might be nerfed at this point of classic, but they moved at like sprint speed as default.