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| Reviewed 8/4/09 Patch 3.2 |
Extreme hunter soloing is all about your pet – if the pet survives, you’re going to win. So your extreme hunter solo pet talent build is an essential part of the formula.
As we discussed in our Extreme Solo Hunter Talent Build, we’re concerned with two things: reducing the damage our pet takes (mitigation) and increasing the amount of healing our pet gets. After all, if we can heal our pet for more damage than it takes, then we will eventually win.
Things like DPS and threat don’t matter — as a hunter we have complete control over our threat, so we can worry about making sure our pet stays alive.
Extreme Hunter Solo Pet Talent Build
With this build we are able to take every pet talent that increases damage mitigation, or increases healing. What we sacrifice is our “oh pants” buttons to use in emergencies. We aren’t worried about things like Taunt, because we have control over our own threat (via FD, Misdirect, or just standing there and not shooting for a while) so we should never pull aggro.
Silverback
This fantastic talent is one of the keys that keeps your pet going – your pet heals 2% of it’s total health every time it growls. With the Longevity talent our hunter has deep in the BM tree, our pet growls even more often, healing itself even more often. A nice side benefit of this talent is that it’s the pet healing itself (rather than us healing it) so it is generating threat for that healing!
Wild Hunt
This is a fantastic talent for any pet tank. Normally our pets gain 45% of our stamina. Two ranks of Wild Hunt increase that by 40% (note that it increases multiplicatively, not additively). So instead of 45% we are getting 63%. That’s a bump of thousands of health for our pet.
Now keep in mind that Silverback was healing our pet for a percentage of its health — the more health your pet has, the more gets healed with Silverback every growl. Thus Wild Hunt is actually increasing the amount that our pet will heal.
Guard Dog
We don’t have talent points spend here because this doesn’t increase our healing, or reduce our pet’s damage taken. All this talent does is make growl cause more threat — and we don’t really care about threat, so it’s a pass.
Variations
There are a couple minor variations to this build that you may want to change for specific bosses. In particular if you’re not having issues with survivability you may want to move the Great Resistances ranks into something that increases your threat and damage — Spiked Collar is my preference.
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Presumably you’d want to take great resistance for bosses with DD spells or dots?
I wish they would unlink wild hunt from roar of sacrifice… I’ve never wanted roar but keep having to take it.
/grumble
I am leveling turtle just to try this out
I have a Boar for solo questing and for running lower level guild mates through dungeons. A wolf for raids and a cat for my occasional forays into battlegrounds.
Wouldn’t it also be just as easy if you were wearing 2 pieces of tier 5 that heal your pet
for 15% of your damage. Yes I know they are level 70 pieces but if your only worries are
healing your pet and watching its threat these pieces of gear just might make it easier.
Admin
Yup, you also want 2 pieces of the T5 set. We’ll get into that when I post the gear section of extreme soloing. However, for some fights you need the healing independent of your ability to be shooting.
Contributor
Absolutely true, Creepnfreak. Frost has mentioned the t5 set bonus before, which is excellent for soloing. Problem is, not everyone can muster guildies to run through Outland raids for them. Silverback will only really be useful for soloing, but regardless of your gear it’s a nice touch.
Contributor
oops, Frost beat me to it.
Dues Payer
crap, i got into WoW about 5 months before wotlk so im gonna have to try to get a group to go back for funsies and just hope im lucky and the tokens drop and im not out rolled by someone having nostalgic memories >.<
I’ve been trying to clear heroric Magisters’ Terrace, solo obviously. I haven’t been able to kill the second boss in there and if I can’t do that, then the third boss impossible. HELP!
For those people worrying about the cost of continually respeccing your pet – If you are dual-specced yourself having the pet out and switching back and forth from BM resets their points.
Tactically this could be extremely useful as you could tailor the Pets spec to specific pulls and bosses within an instance.
Yes, I a bit obsessive….
On the page http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/guides/ this guide is in bold…
*am rather
For Soloing MGT Heroic, the guy who asked for help. Trap the rogue which is the most annoying one of the grps, and slow down the warlock and start to kite the boss it self as u dps her down and keep ur pet on here til she gets down, then change target to the second and kite killing while pet on them, max 30 seconds, u have atleast killed 2 already, and the rest is very easy, as you can now AOE
With ICC and the 3.3 patch, avoidance is replaces with Culling the Herd. Although Culling the Herd is great for raiding and isn’t bad for soloing, I think throwing these points into Great Resistance or possibly tossing a point into Boar’s Speed makes more sense.
Ok, this may be an extreme newb question but how do you get your pet to 20 talent points?
I’ve got a lvl 80 wolf that only has 16 talent points and a lvl 77 turtle with 15… where are these other talent points coming from?
Contributor
OldM – You need the final point in your hunter’s Beastmaster spec which is entitled, appropriately enough, Beast Mastery.
Ahh so will I only see those extra points when in BM spec?
Contributor
Yes, and only when you have the 51+ points in BM to get to the end of the spec.
I need help with this, my pet’s specc doesn’t look like this,… it doesn’t have avoidance, and I’ll put the points I need to get Silverback in Last Stand (HP shout) and Great Resistance instead, but why is it changed? Patch or anything?
I do use the Turtle…
Help we need patch updates =D
Now that Avoidance is no more, are you putting the points into Resistance?