Comments on: Pet Tanks?

By: Cynra

Cynra — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:30:31 +0000

My guild lacked a tank for a while when one of our friends took an impromptu absence from the game. As a result, my hunter’s strigid owl stepped in to fill the void. He’s tanked every five-man pre-Burning Crusade and maybe half of the new ones. It was always fun and challenging to do something like that and my guildies were all for unconventional things in World of Warcraft.

My time as a hunter has ruined me on any other class that has a pet. Since I usually don’t need the Shadowfriend Cuddles (named by my guild) while doing dailies or farming, I use him to tank mobs for me. And, sadly, I do the same thing with my mage’s water elemental. I’m almost embarrassed!

By: teh Khol Abides

teh Khol Abides — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:38:35 +0000

As a side note, you only need to worry about me if you mess with my friends. You know, don’t go killing them for no reason and we’re cool.

By: teh Khol Abides

teh Khol Abides — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:37:07 +0000

Yes, Virginia, pet tanks used to not only be common, but GOOD.

It was partly due to the change to the valuation of STA on gear from one item point per point of STA to one item point per two STA, but also due to the fact that pets were pretty much ready out of the box to tank, while players had to get gear first. The Age of Pet Tanks only lasted about a month or so on most servers, so no, the Great Hunters of Yore will now be taking over guilds and setting up as quest givers in Silvermoon (or elsewhere.)

Yore isn’t far from Lore, but you’d need to ask Artix Krieger more about that…

By: Delphineas

Delphineas — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:42:47 +0000

I think what happened, IIRC, was the stam buff.
Back iin Vanilla WoW, your pet had more health than you did. (I think. Maybe this changed in high end raiding, my hunter missed hitting 60 preBC by a couple weeks.)

In BC, hunters stam went a LOT higher, but the scaling was poor. Thus my badly pvp geared hunter is sitting at 9k while Mavrick is at 6k. With stam talents.

By: Hannelore

Hannelore — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:16:54 +0000

@Hildi & @Khol

So, wait. You’re telling me that pet tanks used to be common? Used to be GOOD?

What happened? Did people get more huntarded, or did pets get slapped with a big scooshy bat? Did dungeons get harder? And how come no one mentioned this before? Have I tapped into some bizarre genetic memory, and soon the Great Hunters of Yore will be taking over guilds and setting themselves up as quest givers in Silvermoon? And where the blazes is Yore?

By: teh Khol Abides

teh Khol Abides — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:38:58 +0000

>.>

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Heh.

Back when BC first came out, the best tank in my old guild was Foofy, the pet bear of one of our huntards…

/vanish

By: Hildi

Hildi — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:47:53 +0000

hehe
What was wierd was back in the day you could use a pet to tank Anubrekhan in Naxx.