Pet management - Page 18

Corain · 04/10/09, 9:30 AM

Originally Posted by Tahkmaul

I have another "pet sticking" question. Has anyone else experienced their pets standing around doing nothing on Grand Widow Faerlina? Is this part of the fight? My cat freezes right when we engage Faerlina, and he comes to my side as soon as she dies.

I have seen this issue periodically with other people's pets, with it happening to me this past raid. I recalled the pet to me and it teleported over to my side. I then sent it in onto the boss and it went without any other issues. If the pet gets stuck, it seems to be in the same spot, so just watch to be sure your pet isn't standing over there. If it is, recall and resend.

Har · 04/15/09, 10:00 AM

I've gone and updated the first post for 3.1. As I understand it, one point in shark attack is superior to a point in wild hunt for most hunters. It is a rush job because I'm at work, but if I'm missing anything (I haven't played anything but SV since patch 3.0.8, so I'm looking at you, beastmasters), please PM me. Don't reply to the thread unless it's something that would benefit everyone.

Edit: I did a quick spreadsheet test over lunch, and it looks like wild hunt > shark bite, at least with BiS T7 gear, and since wild hunt scales, I put that into the spec.

Fimbo · 04/15/09, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by Bfreevegas

I've looked everywhere in this post about what happens when a Boss is tamed vs. a normal mob but I can't find anything on this subject..I want to try and tame Lord Lakmaeran (62 elite Chimaera on Isle of Dread) because I was told once tamed he has better stats than a regular level 62 Chimaera. Because he has 332k HP he is not an easy tame and I am wondering is it worth it to try???

Further to Celf's answer a LONG time ago, back in Vanilla pets kept kept various features from the individual mobs they tamed, attack speed, run speed, doing shadow damage, and the like.

It's possible they were cofused over that - but this was a long time before we could tame Chimaeras.

Nowadays, to be honest, your main criteria for taming (unless you want a certain skin) is which is the highest level version of the mob in question, because if you can tame a creature level >75 you can avoid the need to level them all the way.
For example I picked up a Level 80 Wolf last night ready for today and he was ready to raid after two chunks of meat!

edq28w1982 · 04/15/09, 12:10 PM

Any one done some math and could show it that Shark Atack > Wild Hunt?

Iru · 04/15/09, 1:51 PM

The answer is gear dependent. See the spreadsheet for your personal answer

Ashenmoor · 04/15/09, 7:33 PM

Originally Posted by Har

Edit: I did a quick spreadsheet test over lunch, and it looks like wild hunt > shark bite, at least with BiS T7 gear, and since wild hunt scales, I put that into the spec.

Both abilities scale but ill run my gear throught the spreadsheet and see what i get. At a glance it seems like u would need alot of AP for 1pt in wild hunt to give a dps increase greater or equal to 3% of your pets total dmg.

elfyperson · 04/15/09, 8:08 PM

is a wolf viable in 3.1?

Iru · 04/15/09, 10:05 PM

You're just determined not to actually read threads aren't you. Yes, the wolf looks like the highest DPS pet for all non-BM builds due to the stacking AP buff

Vegelus · 04/16/09, 3:08 AM

Originally Posted by Ashenmoor

Both abilities scale but ill run my gear throught the spreadsheet and see what i get. At a glance it seems like u would need alot of AP for 1pt in wild hunt to give a dps increase greater or equal to 3% of your pets total dmg.

For my gear (just few pieces away from BiS t7.5) 1pt in Wild Hunt yields about 8-9dps more than 1pt in Shark Attack. Tho that might be true only for survivals (33% of pet's stamina increases AP too).

Stara · 04/16/09, 9:51 AM

I am seeing using the current 3.1 PTR spreadsheet Wild Hunter being about 6 dps higher then shark attack. I took shark attack before double checking on it, but for the moment I don't think I'll spec out of it.

I haven't theory crafted it yet but I am curious what will be better once we potentially lose the T7 2p bonus.

Nooska · 04/16/09, 10:00 AM

The 2t7 bonus shouldn't affect the relative usefulness of either.

Shark attack is 3/6 % increased damage * 105%
Wild Hunt is 2,2/4,4% more AP transfered * 105%

If one is better with 2t7, it is also better without - if all other relative stats stay the same. Since losing the 2t7 bonus invoolves getting gear with a different stat distribution it might change (or not) depending on the stat distribution.

Namarus · 04/17/09, 12:54 PM

In Uldar, has anyone had any problems getting their pet to engage Kologarn?

My pet spent the whole fight doing nothing at all, even with aggressive stance on.

NotQuiteThere · 04/17/09, 1:13 PM

Recent blue post stated the following:

"Pets have been properly trained to now attack Kologarn when instructed."

jeftre · 04/18/09, 3:05 PM

moved to tread

Skhope · 04/19/09, 2:19 PM

Originally Posted by Namarus

In Uldar, has anyone had any problems getting their pet to engage Kologarn?

My pet spent the whole fight doing nothing at all, even with aggressive stance on.

When we killed him earlier this week in 25-man, my pet didn't attack anything until the right arm died. It stopped attacking every time the right arm was up. However, they hotfixed pets on this fight. Yesterday, my pet dpsed just fine in 10-man.