Comments on: Grandpappy Frostheim on Pets

By: Muka

Muka — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:55:59 +0000

Nice Work Frost, I love your articles especially these nostalgic ones!
I can’t describe in words what pain it was, that you didnt only have to farm food and pots for yourselves but for your pet too!!! it had that little smiley next to its name that indicated, wether it was about to leave and attack you! if you didnt feed it, it was unhappy!
and do not get me started on the epic hunter quest with the demons to get your epic fing QUIVER!!!Staff and bow! lol back then it was sheer impossible that your pet had more hp than you! think about it.

By: Karhandras

Karhandras — Mon, 30 May 2011 21:56:37 +0000

Hi from France and thanks again for those fantastic reminds of the old times
I play since the Beta version.
Hunter remains my main character becouse of fun and game play.

I remember when i had to convince our raid leader that i was able to use a pet effectively & with no error such as sheep breaking etc… just becouse pets were poor advantages & often their master also ^^ Pet were usually forbidden.

I had to whisp to have buff on my pet and i get marrried with a priestess to make sure to have support.

Then comes the time of Moltencore where pulling was an art!

Hunter was raised as one of the best DPS, able to CC with trap, pet, kitting in the same time. (i used to manage 3 targets in intances…)

Then comes the nerf cycles, followed by a period were hunter was a best in class PVP character…

Be proud of our history my brother of arms! We have to stand for the future!

By: Calthaliss

Calthaliss — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:03:41 +0000

Seriously, there are hunters that don’t use their pets? Intentionally? That’s just stupid. What’s the point of being a hunter without a pet? I know I’m relatively new to the game, after only 4 months or so, but my pet has saved my ass on many occasions. Not only that, but I’ve been able to solo many group quests by playing healer while having my pet tank for me. My pet ate better than my toon did on most occasions before the latest patch made feeding obsolete.

By: Pyril

Pyril — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:07:06 +0000

I love this post. I remember hunting down specific pets to be able to teach the pet I used specific ability’s. I also remember how ticked off I was when the game made it so that other hunters didn’t have to do the work I did to get the talents my pet had. I spent hours and hours getting those specialized skills hunt down specific pets, so I could teach my main pet. Those were definably the \good ol days\ LOL.

By: Dourne

Dourne — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:26:18 +0000

Oh yeah, this brings back memories. The bad queue time was started AFTER you were finally able to login (sometimes up to an hour… which is why we had multiple servers). Lots of theorycrafting about the best pets in the game. And if you found a really good one, you might part with information on it, but not to just anyone. It was reserved for people you liked.

Actually, that’s one of the things I wish they would bring back. I really enjoyed seeking out different pet skills to train my pets. I know it took up time… but I did some really stupid stuff trying to get pets and new skills. Plus it took a lot longer to tame and you had no armor so most of the time it was a game of “Am I going to die on this one?”
Don’t get me wrong, I freakin love the new Call Pets with multiple slots and the Epic Hangar of a stable we can use now… totally awesome! Way to go DEVS! I hope Ghostcrawler has something to do with that, because I am starting to like him.

Thanks for bringing back the memories Frost. Makes you wonder if the days back then made Hrist who he is today. Har har har…

By: Chilimac

Chilimac — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:59:10 +0000

Delightfully done! My first toon was a warlock who I leveled to 60 and was raiding BWL and MC and Ony (original) with. I remember being b****ed at all the time about keeping dots up on the boss and of course running out of mana. I now have an 80 hunter, priest, deathknight, and druid as well. I by far love my hunter the most. I remember back in the day hunters got a bad rap for being the easiest and quickest to level, however after leveling one a few months ago I would say the hunters had one of the hardest classes back then, I mean I didn’t have to go out and find other demons to train, just to learn a skill off of to add to my current demon, it was just do a quest earn a demon. Hunters today have no reason not to have a full stable and should throughly love catching new pets, I have 3 spirit beasts, and 2 cats one of which I got as an alliance from a little cat trinket and its naturally ghost so doesn’t count as a special beast and I can use him in my MM talent spec. I love seeing my pets in raid fights putting a whooping down, it may not be much but when you are kiting a blood beast and want to keep dps on the boss every little bit counts. So I say CHEERS to all you hunters who busted your A**es in the early days just to be laughed at now, by the new hunters who don’t have to suffer through!

By: Jijibaishou

Jijibaishou — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:19:53 +0000

HELL YEAH!!!

:’) It’s just awesomef to finally find a fellow hunter that still remebers da good old days ^^, it’s just rare this days, these youngsters know nothing of what it used to be like to be a HUNTER!!!!

By: scrombat

scrombat — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:59:15 +0000

i’ve played a hunt since early BC(wasnt a belf so dont worry) but i poved my pet and it lived through most anything cause B

By: Lynxsus

Lynxsus — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:52:00 +0000

LMFAO, I use my pets 2 their full potential, we both want locks 2 die haha =)

By: Sudiin

Sudiin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:44:46 +0000

I would vote this the article of the year 2009 if possible. It’s very very well worded and composed, and boy does it bring back the vanilla feeling. The many times when in BWL and MC our hunters used to (and their lovable sacrificial pets) pull bosses to us tanks, or their joy at having the sinew or leaf drop, man those were indeed the times (=