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[Jaspar]

Many of the pets Im after are lower levels so I dont want to risk killing them. Given this I have got myself a level 1 weapon and taken off my armor and items.

Currently Im wearing the starter gear but Im wondering if anyone could put together a list of items which would look good for hunting - and list where it can be found.

Thanks !

[TygerDarkstorm]

You shouldn't have to go through that much effort as low level pets can easily be tamed just by hitting the tame beast button, no attacking needed.

[Jaspar]

Ban'Thalos is one which needs to be tagged before you can tame him. Would feel pretty bad if I 1-shot it.

Cheers,

Jaspar

[TygerDarkstorm]

I'm pretty sure just shooting off one auto-attack onto him and them immediately canceling your attack (by pressing escape or using a macro) should keep from one-shotting him. I don't think his health is so low he can't survive an auto-attack. But if it concerns you that much just set up a section in your equipment manager where your character is naked, save for a weapon. No need to spend a bunch of money getting low level gear.

[Lisaara]

He's a level 85 elite...you won't one shot him, trust me.

[TygerDarkstorm]

He has 387k health according to wowhead.com--he didn't spawn for me when I went to check and look for myself--however, I can comfortably say in my "average" geared hunter (ie mainly 496 TI pieces) that I only white hit mobs of about that same level range for ~13k. Providing you only white him once or twice it should be a non-issue wearing a normal full set of gear to tame a creature like Ban'thalos.

And 99% of other low level mobs pretty much can just be walked up to and just hit tame beast. I feel like it's a little silly to go so far out of the way (and potentially spend gold that doesn't need to be spent) for a very low percentage of mobs that might need to be tagged before taming. However, if a person really wants to have a low level set of gear on them for such purposes, be my guest. Just remember that your damage isn't going to go down that much just because you downgraded your gear; if you're one-shotting mobs now you probably still will post gear change.

I imagine even at level 100 a white hit on Banny at current 100 gear level won't kill him if he's flapping around with 300k. Chimaeron doesn't require a lower gear level either as you can always control how much/how hard you're hitting him.