This tree loves to work with your Ranged Attack Power. Granted, that isn’t
easy to come by on the way to level 60, but once you reach 60, there are
plenty of weapons and armor tailored specifically to hunters that have lots
of Attack Power.
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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 with talents
that boost your melee abilities, upgrade your traps, increase your health,
and much more. With the right talents, you’ll last longer and live longer when
your feet are in the fire. Most hunters usually turn to this as their
secondary tree. That’s not to say that this tree is weak, however. This tree
loves to boost your critical strike chance, and the talents it has to offer is
especially well-designed for PvP. Compared to Marksmanship, you will find that
although your weapon DPS will be slightly lower, you will see plenty of crits.
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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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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, 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
solid pets and have an easy diet.
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Carrion Bird
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Bite, Claw, Dive
DIET: Meat, Fish
DAMAGE: Normal
ARMOR: +5%
HEALTH: Normal
OVERVIEW: This is the general name for Warcraft’s variety of buzzards,
vultures, rocs, and condors. Like the Hyena, they have well-balanced stats
but have a little more in the way of abilities.
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Cat
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Bite, Claw, Prowl, Dash
DIET: Meat, Fish
DAMAGE: +10%
ARMOR: Normal
HEALTH: -2%
OVERVIEW: Cats were once known for their fast attack speeds, ranging from 1.5
to as high as 1.0. Although their speeds have been reduced to a standard 2.0,
cats are still popular for their offensive firepower, as well as the ability
to Dash and Prowl. Cats are very common in the wild, and they also come in a
wide variety of colors. There are even some unique ones down in Winterspring,
which share the same body type as the riding sabers.
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Crab
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Claw
DIET: Bread, Fish, Fruit, Fungus
DAMAGE: -5%
ARMOR: +13%
HEALTH: -4%
OVERVIEW: The Crab is one of two high-armored pets in the game, the other being
the Turtle. The difference is that unlike the Turtle, which loses 10% damage
in exchange for its 13% Armor bonus, the Crab trades off some of its Health
for slightly higher Damage. Like Turtles, Crabs are naturally found along the
shores of beaches.
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Crocolisk
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Bite
DIET: Meat, Fish
DAMAGE: Normal
ARMOR: +10%
HEALTH: -5%
OVERVIEW: Crocolisks are an interesting bunch and that’s not just because they
have six legs. They have a good armor count and decent attack strength but
have relatively low health. They’re good for if you want a defensive pet that
can still push a little offensive power but they suffer from a lack of moves.
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Dragon Hawk
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Bite, Dive, Fire Breath
DIET: Fish, Fruit, Meat, Raw Fish, Raw Meat
DAMAGE: Normal
ARMOR: Normal
HEALTH: Normal
OVERVIEW: Dragon Hawks may not have any outstanding stats in particular but
they have a unique cone-area spell called Fire Breath, which scales with
level. They also look very elegant and for Blood Elf hunters, taming one is
very simple. For Alliance hunters, however, they have only two options: they
can either make the dangerous trip to Quel’Thalas and tame one early, or wait
until they reach the higher-level areas of Outland.
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Gorilla
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MOVES: Growl, Cower, Bite, Thunderstomp
DIET: Fungus, Fruit
DAMAGE: +2%
ARMOR: Normal
HEALTH: +4%
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