Quote Originally Posted by nodoze View Post
There isnt' any /focus in Classic and there are multiple discussions on the negative implications of that for pets, especially multiple/all pet parties.

I think a Hunter Pet with mend pet (which also cleanses) can be the most resilient but running multiple hunters can be problematic due to dead zones.

I would at least take a healer (ideally a Priest who can do an AoE heal or an AoEish heal like Chain Heal from a Shaman). A healer should help the pets last longer and/or allow you to rez folk and helps enable the use of Life Tap.
I leveled a group of hunters up pre cata, and it was very easy. The hunters will basically never pull agro, the pets just pingpong the threat between them, if a pet goes down, just have a res pet in your rotation macro, so that if the macro returns the pet dead, it res's the pet. Unless you go crazy, and pull too much, it's just very unlikely that you will get all the pets killed before you can res any dead and put them back in the fight. That and having all that DPS makes quick work of pulls.

My group was 4 hunters and 1 paladin, so I was healing with the paladin, but frankly, you kill so fast, my paladin wasn't having to heal too heavily. I will say, I was running mostly a full set of 'looms, including dwarven hand cannons, so, the DPS output was pretty optimal, but it was so stupidly easy clearing dungeons with this group that even having to actually get drops to equip your hunters, it still wouldn't be that difficult.