Best hunter pets!

WoW pets - Which are the best?

Depending on what type of content you decide to focus on and your spec there are several different options when it comes to pet choices. World of Warcraft is split into two major types PvE and PvP. Depending on which content you will be aiming for you will have to choose your spec, gear and of course, your pet. Click here for more on Best Pet For WoW Hunter

PVP

There are three categories of PVP content in game at the moment, arena, battlegrounds and world pvp; with first two being the most interesting and popular. Hunters are an amazing class in PvP with great utilities for it. Your play style will depend on your spec and in PvP it all comes down to gaining control of the situation, and because of that you will have to keep your enemies at range and in control. Hunter is a ranged dps class meaning while their target is in melee range they can’t do much. Keeping that in mind you will always have to keep distance from your target.

Various traps and abilities that hunter poses will allow them to do so but sometimes they just won’t be enough to keep the enemies away. Survival is at this point best spec for a PvP hunter with Marksmanship in close second place, were as beast mastery still isn’t that good. Which pet will help me keep distance and control? Answer is, usually Crab and Spider, and those are the most common used pets in arenas and battlegrounds. Basic of hunters dps in PvP is kiting your targets around not letting them get close to you.

Spiders

Spiders are very good in PvP probably even the best and immobilize effect from their web ability with cunning talent tree is the reason why most hunters use them. This ability has 40 second cool down and if used correctly together with other hunter abilities will give you enough movement impairing effects to keep enemies out of your face. The fact that web attack cannot be dispelled makes it even better. The down side is that spiders don’t have damage output of ferocity pets and survivability of tenacity pets. They are also easy to feed as their diet is meat! If you would like more information on WoW guides check out one of our popular guides here: Ultimate WoW Guide

Crabs

Crabs are also very popular for PvP for their pin effect which makes targets immobilized but the down part is that the effect is dispellable. On the other hand, crabs are tenacity pets and are harder to kill than spiders.

PVE content

PVE is all about raiding, downing new bosses and doing hard modes. Hunter is a pure dps class and thus their main and only task is to do maximum damage in boss fights. Marksmanship is most popular spec for PvE hunters with Survival in close second place where as Beast Mastery is far behind in dps and viability for that matter. Best pets for PvE hunter are ferocity pets as their talents are all about dealing damage or enhancing it. The only thing left to decide is which of many ferocity pets is the best for you, and it is definitely wolf! Wolf’s Furious howl gives you 320 attack power with 50% uptime and it is a very nice boost to your dps. Ferocity talent tree is built around gaining more survivability for your pet and increasing damage done.

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