Serpent’s Swiftness
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EFFECT: Increases ranged combat attack speed by 4/8/12/16/20% and your pet's
melee attack speed by 4/8/12/16/20%.
POINTS: 5/5
TIER: 8
OVERVIEW: For going this far down the tree, both you and your pet get this as
a special treat: a delightful 20% boost to attack speed. Be sure to pick this
one up as soon as you can.
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The Beast Within
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EFFECT: When your pet is under the effects of Bestial Wrath, you also go into
a rage causing 10% additional damage and reducing mana costs of all spells by
20% for 18 sec.While enraged, you do not feel pity or remorse or fear and you
cannot be stopped unless killed.
POINTS: 1/1
TIER: 9
NOTE: You must have 1 point in Bestial Wrath to access this talent.
OVERVIEW: Cloth wearers already lament the thought of being torn to shreds by
a Hunter’s pet. This allows you to share in the fun. Grab this, hit the Rapid
Fire, and unleash everything you’ve got. This is a must-have for any Beast
Mastery Hunter.
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d. Choosing Your Specialization
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There are lots of talents to choose from but the big question is: which one
suits you best? Here are some things you should look at when planning out your
talents.
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Marksmanship
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Highlights:
Aimed Shot
Scatter Shot
Trueshot Aura
Silencing Shot
If you prefer to enhance your Hunter’s offensive power with ranged weapons,
then invest your points into this tree. Marksmanship Hunters tend to have high
ranged damaged outputs, thanks to their wide variety of power-boosting talents.
This is arguably the most balanced of the three talent trees for both PvE and
PvE, and is the most popular choice among players. Raiding guilds tend to favor
Marksmanship Hunters for their steady damage and beneficial Trueshot Aura.
As for secondary trees, the tier-1 and tier-2 talents from each of the other
trees compliment a Marksmanship Hunter’s ranged damage. Popular choices include
the “Slaying” talents, Hawk Eye, Improved Aspect of the Hawk, and Focused Fire.
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Survival
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Highlights:
Deterrance
Counterattack
Wyvern Sting
Readiness
As the name implies, this tree enhances your defensive abilities, and gives you
more of an edge when things get too close to you. Talents such as Improved Wing
Clip, Entrapment, and Counterattack give you more ways to keep enemies at bay,
thanks to their immobilizing effects. However, that’s not to say that the tree
has no offensive power to it. Some of the Survival talents boost your damage
output, and investing in this tree often results in high critical hit
percentages. This tree’s style of play tends to be difficult, but very reward-
ing when mastered, especially in PvP.
Survival Hunters rely heavily on Agility, since several talents are fueled by
it. Lightning Reflexes and Expose Weakness are most effective when a player has
high Agility, and the stat fuels the critical strike and dodge percentages that
affect several other talents. As for secondary talents, the tier-1 and tier-2
talents from the other two trees work well with Survival, especially Lethal
Shots, though some players may wish to invest all of their points into
Marksmanship to get Aimed Shot or Improved Stings.
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Beast Mastery
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Highlights:
Bestial Swiftness [Passive]
Intimidation
Bestial Wrath
The Beast Within [Passive]
If you want to try something different, there’s always this tree, which
greatly strengthens your pets. Various talents boost your pet’s damage, and
there are ones that will allow your pet to soak up more damage in combat.
With enough points invested in this tree, your pet becomes deadly to the point
where it can rip other players to pieces. The only downside to this tree is
that if your pet dies, a good portion of those talents then becomes useless.
This tree is ideal for PvP because people often forget to attack the pet, and
the pet can be used to go after cloth wearers attacking from a distance.
Beast Mastery does not exclude you in any way, of course. This tree also has
several talents that enhance your DPS as well, and curiously, this tree seems
suitable for a speed build, as Improved Aspect of the Hawk and Serpent’s
Swiftness both increase your attack speed. For this tree, the choice of
Agility or Attack Power is entirely up to you.
Unlike the other two trees, Beast Mastery requires that you carefully pick
your pets. While any pet can benefit from the tree’s talents, certain pets
will benefit more from certain talents than others. For example, defensive
pets such as Bears and Turtles will benefit the most from talents that boost
Health and Armor, while the ones that will get the most out of offensive
talents are heavy hitters such as Cats and Ravagers. For a complete list of
pets, read the next section.
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Pets are extremely important to a Hunter. They serve as viable tanks, and add
to your overall DPS with a variety of different abilities. They also come in a
wide variety of shapes and colors, some of which are extremely rare.
As of the 2.01 patch, the attack speed and movement speed of all pets has been
normalized. All pets now move at the same speed, and have a 2.00 attack speed.
However, slight variations in attack strength, hit points, and armor still
remain the same.
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a. Pet Taming & Care
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When you first create your Hunter, you actually start without a pet. At about
level 10, you get a series of quests from your local Hunter Trainer. It’s a
simple chain, which eventually rewards you with all of your pet care abilities,
including Tame Beast. Once you have it, you may go ahead and look for an animal
to tame. The most commonly available animals around are cats and bears, though
it all depends on where you start out. Once you find an animal you like, use
Tame Beast and wait for the 20-second timer to count down. Be sure to start
with full health, as your armor will drop to 0 while channeling the ability.
Once you have your pet, you may name it whatever you’d like, and if you don’t
like it, you can simply abandon it and Tame a different one. Congratulations!
Now you must remember to take care of your pet, and that must first begin with
its diet and happiness. Its happiness, which is indicated by a small icon next
to your pet’s portrait, affects two things. First, it affects your pet’s DPS.
A happy pet will cause its highest possible damage. The other thing it affects
is its loyalty. An unhappy pet will eventually leave you if it stays unhappy.
To increase its happiness, feed it with the Feed Pet ability. If you look at
your Combat Log, foods near its level will grant it a solid 35 Happiness per
tick, whereas lesser foods will grant less. Remember that your pet will only
eat certain foods. Check your pet’s diet in your Pet tab to find out what it
eats.
As your pet stays with you, it gains experience and loyalty. While its level
is capped at your current level, its loyalty level caps at Level 6. As your pet
gains experience and loyalty levels, it gets Training Points, which you can use
to train new abilities. There is more information on abilities in Section c.
Be sure to keep your pet alive. Whenever your pet dies, it loses happiness,
and it costs a lot of mana to revive it, so in the process, you lose precious
food and time.
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Caster Pets
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Pets that have a mana bar before they’re tamed are reported to have higher
Intellect and Spirit than the average pet, in exchange for lower DPS, Stamina,
and Armor. Unfortunately, Intellect and Spirit are of no use to pets, which
makes such pets seemingly inferior to a standard pet. Players commonly refer
to them as “caster pets.” On the plus side, they aren’t very common in the
wild, as the majority of the game’s tamable creatures lack a mana bar, and even
though they may have lower stats, they’re not so low that it would make your
pet completely useless.
There is some consolation for caster pets, however. With the last major patch,
the game now applies spell damage to your pet’s attacks, which makes abilities
such as Fire Breath and Lightning Breath that much more potent.
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Benefits From You
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Your pets gain stat bonuses from your own stats. After doing some math, I found
some rough estimates as to what your pet benefits from. These are the
percentages that I found from examining my own gear. These numbers could vary,
depending on level and other possible factors.
Attack Power: About 22% of your Ranged Attack Power
Spell Damage: About 12.8% of your Ranged Attack Power
Armor: About 35% of your Armor
Stamina: About 30% of your Stamina
Resistances: 40% of your Resistances
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b. Available Pets
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With up to three stable slots, you can have three pets in your reserve. Here
is a list of the different kinds of pets that you can own. Each listing shows
the pet’s abilities, diet, and any modifiers it may have to its damage, armor,
and health.
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Bat
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Claw, Screech, Dive
DIET: Fruit, Fungus
DAMAGE: +7%
ARMOR: Normal
HEALTH: Normal
OVERVIEW: Bats are alternative flying pets to owls and their stats are built
very similar to one another. They’re also meaner-looking. They even share the
same moves. The major difference is that low-level owls are relatively easier
for Alliance players to obtain whereas Horde players have an easier time
finding low-level bats. Bats also have a pickier diet.
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Bear
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Bite, Claw
DIET: Bread, Cheese, Meat, Fish, Fruit, Fungus
DAMAGE: -9%
ARMOR: +5%
HEALTH: +8%
OVERVIEW: Bears are the most ideal tanking pets in the game because of their
high stamina and armor count. Although they’re limited in the kinds of moves
they can learn, and are offensively weak, they serve their role well and their
stamina and armor count can be enhanced through passive abilities.
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Boar
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Bite, Gore, Dash, Charge
DIET: Bread, Cheese, Fish, Fruit, Fungus, Meat
DAMAGE: -10%
ARMOR: +9%
HEALTH: +4%
OVERVIEW: Boars have a nice mix of well-balanced stats as well as a unique move
that is extremely useful. They’re also very common throughout Azeroth. Their
stats lean a bit more towards defense than offense but regardless, they make
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