Which 'tank' pet?

[Shade]

So I am working on my fourth hunter, Sidhe, off and on. I'm trying to plan her to be a hunter that does not overlap with any of my other hunters on pets. So much so that I had my little NE run all the way to Durotar to tame a lynx instead of using the cats in her area that I usually get on my lowbies. Not a fun run, let me tell you.

She's just 13 now, but I am trying to plan out what to tame to be her tank pet once I hit level 18 (and can carry two pets at a time).

On my other hunters, I have the following tank pets:

Shade:


Kitsune:


Gypsi:


I tried to list the pets for each of my other hunter by use, the most used first and then so on.

So here is Sidhe as she is now:


And here are the options for her to use as a tank.

Bears:


Boars:


Crab:


Croc:


Scorpid:


Turtle:

[Lupis]

I'd say blue turtle! The scales match her hair.

[Gimlion]

Well, other than Madexx, you don't really have a scorpid, so I'd go with one of them. I really like the Beige ones with teal undersides.

[Rower]

Turtle is the cutest option! The blue one or Ghamoo-ra!

[quietstrm07]

I'm going to have to go along with what the others have said and I would recommend the blue turtle. Definitely would work well with the color of your character's hair

[Ana]

I would go with a crab maybe an outland skinned crab.. u rarely see crabs running around as tanks

[Kalliope]

Blue crab/turtle. Or Gamoo-Ra, but I'm biased there.

[Heleos]

I'd say blue turtle! The scales match her hair.

I agree. Plus to me there's no better tank pet then a turtle or beetle.

[GormanGhaste]

I'd recommend the grey bear with blue highlights for now. Once you level up a bit I'd recommend a beetle, as none of your characters have one yet.

[TygerDarkstorm]

Personally, I look at it from a few different perspectives: what spec are you leveling as? do you plan to PvP, solo, or dungeon? Will you be mostly single targeting or will you have some group pulling?

The only reason I say this is because different tenacity pets specialize in different areas. While a turtle/beetle is a good all around damage pet, they really only excel in single target tanking (talking about lower levels here) and they take a pretty fair beating at this level, even with shell shield.

Honestly, I really like bears at the lower levels because demo roar can be invaluable, but for SV/MM hunters, I highly recommend crocs. The snare makes it so that you can kill the mob before it reaches you. With any other tank pet at these levels, unless you're BM, you're going to constantly pull off of your pet and spend a lot of time kiting which is why I prefer a DPS oriented croc for leveling. Or a warpstalker for the higher levels.

A crab's pin can work well for SV/MM as well because even though they don't generate aggro while channeling it, anything but an elite should be dead by the time the effect wears off. I don't recommend crabs for BM since KC interrupts the channel of pin.

Scorpids are a fairly solid choice if you're up against any heavy melee areas, and boars are all right for MM once you get piercing shots (or whatever it's called).

Sorry that's a bit lengthy, but I hope it gives you a little more insight into the various tenacity pets and their worth.

[Acherontia]

If you want a "real" tank pet to do proper solo stuff with, things that are very hard to do, definitely pick up a turtle/beetle imo (for the "racial"). Earlier on you could get this:



And later, this:



Other than those, I see these when I look at your char:

[Kurasu]

Turtles always win! Period!

~ Signed, Panzer and Panzer