A PvP Pet
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 7:07 am
Hai guise.
I won a pair of Wrathful legs in VoA today. Now, I know PvP, but I generally don't PvP on my hunter. I've been interested for awhile though, so I figured hey, I have spare triumphs and honor. I grabbed a couple offset pieces and the gloves too, and set myself up a homemade BM PvP spec as my offspec (I'm BM at heart yo).
Long story short, I decided that, as I already have a Chimaera for kiting and -love- him, I'd like a good 2nd pet for PvP as well which does heavy damage and/or is good vs casters. The categories I was looking at:
* Something with a Stun, as I've already got a snare & would prefer something that -also- works vs casters
* Something with a bleed, vs rogues
* Ferocity, because during testing I realized Cunning does far too low damage for me
First I tried Bat, and to my horror found that the stun special costs 80 FOCUS, meaning that the Bat literally never has the focus to cast it. I had made a macro to cast Intimidation, or Sonic Blast on modifier keypress, but once I figured out the 80 focus thing, ditched the bat.
2nd logical choice was Ravager, then. But I don't like them. I tried, but I don't. THEY HAVE NO FACE
That, and I realized the following: I like sending pet and kiting while the pet destroys the enemy. I've sent my PvE Devilsaur in and had it solo badly-geared casters in a matter of seconds. I like that.
I also realized, though, that some PvP utility would be nice. I played with Hyenas, and I like their damage. I played with a Raptor, and while I like theirs too, the model isn't as nice as I remember; it looks awkward and squashed in places, and too broad in others (and I dislike the OL model).
I would just use a cat, but I wholly dislike all the model + skin combos out there, bar maybe the Frostsaber. I also dislike the STOMPINESS of Corehounds. So I narrowed it down to:
Hyenas and Tallstriders, for now. I did some testing with random ones of each I tamed in the Barrens at random, vs a very well-geared ret guildmate of mine. At level 75, they hurt, and I mean HURT, this guy. Yeah, he could probably global them, but he was busy trying to catch up with me.
I decided on Tallstrider for now, because on the Ret at least, it's buggy and in a good way: the Dust Cloud makes him miss Judgements without using up the charge. So he'll try and Judge, and it will fail, and then his next melee swing misses as well. It doesn't work vs casters, which I'm iffy on, but there's no Ferocity pets with a stun (for casters) so this will have to do. I'm also hoping that a Tallstrider will appear so useless and cute that players won't attempt to destroy it off the bat, as with Valak my Devilsaur.
So without further ado, my newest PvP pet and addition to my ever-changing stables:
On to my questions: Does anyone else prefer a different Ferocity pet for PvP? Why? Does anyone else use Tallstriders, and have they found any specific pros/cons to using them?
I won a pair of Wrathful legs in VoA today. Now, I know PvP, but I generally don't PvP on my hunter. I've been interested for awhile though, so I figured hey, I have spare triumphs and honor. I grabbed a couple offset pieces and the gloves too, and set myself up a homemade BM PvP spec as my offspec (I'm BM at heart yo).
Long story short, I decided that, as I already have a Chimaera for kiting and -love- him, I'd like a good 2nd pet for PvP as well which does heavy damage and/or is good vs casters. The categories I was looking at:
* Something with a Stun, as I've already got a snare & would prefer something that -also- works vs casters
* Something with a bleed, vs rogues
* Ferocity, because during testing I realized Cunning does far too low damage for me
First I tried Bat, and to my horror found that the stun special costs 80 FOCUS, meaning that the Bat literally never has the focus to cast it. I had made a macro to cast Intimidation, or Sonic Blast on modifier keypress, but once I figured out the 80 focus thing, ditched the bat.
2nd logical choice was Ravager, then. But I don't like them. I tried, but I don't. THEY HAVE NO FACE
That, and I realized the following: I like sending pet and kiting while the pet destroys the enemy. I've sent my PvE Devilsaur in and had it solo badly-geared casters in a matter of seconds. I like that.I also realized, though, that some PvP utility would be nice. I played with Hyenas, and I like their damage. I played with a Raptor, and while I like theirs too, the model isn't as nice as I remember; it looks awkward and squashed in places, and too broad in others (and I dislike the OL model).
I would just use a cat, but I wholly dislike all the model + skin combos out there, bar maybe the Frostsaber. I also dislike the STOMPINESS of Corehounds. So I narrowed it down to:
Hyenas and Tallstriders, for now. I did some testing with random ones of each I tamed in the Barrens at random, vs a very well-geared ret guildmate of mine. At level 75, they hurt, and I mean HURT, this guy. Yeah, he could probably global them, but he was busy trying to catch up with me.
I decided on Tallstrider for now, because on the Ret at least, it's buggy and in a good way: the Dust Cloud makes him miss Judgements without using up the charge. So he'll try and Judge, and it will fail, and then his next melee swing misses as well. It doesn't work vs casters, which I'm iffy on, but there's no Ferocity pets with a stun (for casters) so this will have to do. I'm also hoping that a Tallstrider will appear so useless and cute that players won't attempt to destroy it off the bat, as with Valak my Devilsaur.
So without further ado, my newest PvP pet and addition to my ever-changing stables:
On to my questions: Does anyone else prefer a different Ferocity pet for PvP? Why? Does anyone else use Tallstriders, and have they found any specific pros/cons to using them?
Love him
