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Boars make supreme tanks, or used to anyway.
I think the initial AP boost from Charge used to affect Growl too, resulting in a massive initial threat spike on the boar. My 70 boar was getting about 4000 threat upfront which was hard to overtake.
I think Blizz tried to nerf this in the last patch, and I haven't played with my boar since then, so I don't know if they're worthwhile tanks anymore.
If I were multiboxing hunters, I'd have one good tanky pet and four good DPS pets - Boar+4xCats probably.
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My 2c: I have a 5 hunter team. Haven't played it in a little bit, but I got them to Level 22, cleared RFC @ L12 and WC @ L16. I think the key is to remember that most single targets will die nearly instantly, so it doesn't matter what pet you have for them. The situtations I had trouble with was the large pulls in instances where there were a number of things that had to be tanked. in those situations, I would assign a pet to tank each mob, then I'd focus fire the hunters to burn things down. Threat was my biggest adversary, and healing aggro was an issue. For that reason, I really like the idea of 5 boars for threat.
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Thanks everyone for all your great responses and replies. After thinking about it and taking all of your advice I just decided to stick with my cat until at least 60 which want take but few days anyway. At this lower levels I find that I never even use pets as I kill stuff with one shot while questing. Maybe at 60 ill try a few different combinations. Thanks again everyone.
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I've found that Gorillas work very well in instances as the stomp that they do tends to pull in all mobs. I have a Druid for a healer for my four hunters and I put thorns on the pets as well to gain a little more agro. Taking out a really big boss with mobs can get ugly. In a big fight I tend to try to keep them all up, but sometimes it gets kinda of insane.
The boss fight at Mana Forge Ulta(?) (the last one) was a hoot. I don't know how I managed to stay up, but I did. For all of those fights I came up with a pretty good strategy. I put my Druid's back to the console and then placed all of my hunters in an X formation around that, facing them all inward with pets on agressive. Once the mobs came out, I pulled them into the center and opened fire.
The team is at 69 now. Will hit 70 soon. Once I get to 70 I'm going to train up some cats and a wolf or two for outdoor stuff along with PvP stuff. I have another hunter already at 70, but I believe I'm going to go for a druid in stealth to lead my four hunters in PvP competition. Hard to figure how whose in charge of a bunched up group of hunters. :thumbup:
Johnny
