BM Hunter Pet Abuse

[Shaitan256]

Ok, weird Title but maybe someone tried it already, or is going to try it out. (Can start my team next month, but with RAF it's going to be quick)

So their are a few abilities for the Tenacity Pets:
Intervene (hope this was the right)
Taunt
Last Stand
Roar of Sacrifice (just a bad translation don't know the real) The 30% dmg absorb thingy.

So as a BM you got 20 Points to spent on the Tenacity(in this case) Tree. I would Recommend a Turtle because of the 50% DMG reduction.

So you could easily take dmg of your Tank with these abilities, Combined with Boneshield for example could be a dmg reduction of 50% (after Patch) Combined with the roar.

Intervene just to Minimize the dmg of the Tank.

Taunt + Distracting Shot to your pet culd give your tank a little break or let it take big attacks, and that's where the turtle ability comes in to play. You could easily Combine all that to Minimize the DMG on the pet + last Stand it could survive long enough. With a Full BM you can get it to
1,6 % of getting crits(down from 5,6) ,
about 11% dodge through talents (9 Hunter Tree, 2 Tenacity).
-75% AoE dmg taken
+50% HP gain throught heal

Or you could just let it take the ultimate attacks of the bosses just to save your a**.

Came just into my mind while playing my 2 Hunters. Maybe that is something for one or two of you

Edit: You also get the 3% dmg buff from your pet crits.
+ You get a CC with Freezing Trap / Arrow or for mobs just a nice off tank.

[Multibocks]

I'm calling PETA right now. Shame on you!

[Shaitan256]

I'm calling PETA right now. Shame on you!

Couldn't find another Title, but I think it fits.

*disappear into the underground* ^^

[Shaitan256]

Intervene is very tricky to work on a pet - its supposed to auto-cast, but it doesn't.

This would probably work on normal instances, but heroics? Not sure there. Pet might get wtfpwned by a nasty cleave or something.

But still, interesting ideas. Thanks for sharing.

I share Any Idea I have


That's why I said The turtle could do it. I saw on Bigredrhino.wordpress.com / Bigredkitty.net that some tried to Tank HCs with it and found a vid with a Gorilla tank a Boss of a raid instance (looking for it) Don't know which exactly but it's insane what is possible in Wotlk with all the "Oh shit Combinations" and WTFpwn buttons on some classes.

Edit: not bigredrhino.com - Bigredrhino.wordpress.com ^^
nnot bigredkitty.com bigredkitty.net ^^

[homerjunior]

I am sick of everyone posting awsome stuff. I would like to level one team :P

[Shaitan256]

I am sick of everyone posting awsome stuff. I would like to level one team :P

I know, my head is exploding of Team set ups and all that combination stuff, but can't really start before I get my GTX260 + another 2GB of Ram and my Vista 64 So I'm Theorycrafting more and more, I guess if I start I know everything about every class and specc and I'm a "Wandering WoW class Wikipedia" lulz

[Shaitan256]

http://files.filefront.com/Gruul+Bub.../fileinfo.html

this is the link to the Gorilla tanking Gruul. but it seems to be off for some reason. ... now it works xD

here is the Post of it on Bigredkitty.net
http://www.bigredkitty.net/2008/10/2...-a-heroic-but/

[Shaitan256]

Yeah looked @ it on the Warrior, and it has minimum Range 5m / yard , so the Tenacity has 8yd . That isn't the biggest prob. Usually you're tanking with the back of the Boss to your grp if you send your pet it's usually at the back of it so you have @ bigger bosses no problem to get the minimum range. But the main problem is you could get a way for the boss to turn to your grp, and that's what is kinda risky if the boss starts something like "wave attacks like Cone of Cold" (or the Taifun of the Boomkin) and I guess they have a huge range. That would be another Problem to solve.

I'm so excited to test it xD

[Gaffy]

First off I think it could work, I have a solo BM hunter and so far I haven't found a 3-man quest that my gorilla can't tank with just mend pet for heals. Haven't got my shammy leveled yet but once I do I'll be finding out how well he does against 5 man quests with a healer.
At 80 with mostly crappy gear my pet is sitting at about 16k health, 55ish% physical damage reduction, plus the talents that reduce magic damage and aoe damage. And that is unbuffed also.
So just guessing I would say in heroics, trash: good offtank with mild healing plus mend pet. Bosses: sacrificial lamb when needed. But better to lose a pet than the tank.

[Shaitan256]

First off I think it could work, I have a solo BM hunter and so far I haven't found a 3-man quest that my gorilla can't tank with just mend pet for heals. Haven't got my shammy leveled yet but once I do I'll be finding out how well he does against 5 man quests with a healer.
At 80 with mostly crappy gear my pet is sitting at about 16k health, 55ish% physical damage reduction, plus the talents that reduce magic damage and aoe damage. And that is unbuffed also.
So just guessing I would say in heroics, trash: good offtank with mild healing plus mend pet. Bosses: sacrificial lamb when needed. But better to lose a pet than the tank.

That's exactly what I meant.

Not just Sacrificial with Last stand and as a Turtle it really could take some of the DMG from the tank. And the Roar of course, if you have a healer with a HoT (or More) / Group heals it would be cool, just to take the 30% less dmg @ the tank (this dmg cannot be critting only if the tank isn't crit immune, because it's just taking dmg from your tank and not a direct hit by the boss) .

Ok, Roar holds 12 sec by a 30 sec cd with 2 Hunters or just on 1 Button with Bone shield or something.


Btw, thanks for the stats, that was what I needed, could you give me an armory link? Crappy could mean to some just blue stuff, for the others its green