Best pet for hunters

[Kaine (AoD)]

Anyone whos played a hunter and tried a few pets out please give oppinions on which pet they either have now or liked the most whiles playing a hunter.

[Dooms]

When i played my hunter i used 'The Rake' a lion from Mul Gore (and since my hunter is a dwarf running all the way to mulgore on a PVP server @ lvl 11 was a LONG journey!) good cat with an above adverage attack speed.

Since him ive had a few other named mobs (Ol' Sooty the Bear for example) but always gone back to Bob the Rake

[GreenPiggy]

It's horses for courses basically.
High damage pets can be nice, probably the best one to tame is Takk the leaper in the barrens(lvl 19E) but high damage tend to have low hit points.
If you want to go the other way and get a high armour, low damage pet then the best bet is a bear as they eat absolutely ANYTHING.
Best all round pet to get is a cat and as dooms says there are a lot of cool named cats out there to tame if you want(the main difference between named and normal beasts will be the speed eg. Takk the leaper is much faster than a normal raptor)
If you want more advice whisper me in game as Greenpiggy or Calin and i can ask Balkoth who is the pet master.

[Kaine (AoD)]

cool thx guys

if anyone has any more to add please fire away

[Dooms]

You may want to take a look at this old post Clicky for a list of the named pets.

[madocks]

I have a cat for general solo work - good dps, good armour

Also have a bear for instance work - low dps, high HP, high armour (Also eats anything, including mages bread)

[ravenblood]

Well AoD , like Mads i use two pets one for tanking (PVE/Instances) and one for pvp (High DPS and High Attack speed)

For tanking i use Ursius (lvl 56 elit bear from Wintersrping)
For PvP i use Rik'shiri (or something like that) (lvl 57 cat rare spawn in Winter srping)

And no , elite pets arent better then normal ones , some of them have unique looks , like Rik something.

The advantage of bears or boars , is the fact that they eat everything ( money saver)

Just have fun with the pet of your liking

[madocks]

Ive seen a few people with owls etc

[ERU]

I got a Parrot but he anit much cop tbh

[[Elrond]]

I got a Parrot but he anit much cop tbh

Remarkable bird! beautiful plumage!

[ERU]

Remarkable bird! beautiful plumage!

No it's not the Norwegian Blue

[Vimeous]

Have had a cat before previously and his attack speed was impressive and he looked better than most!

At present I've a Crocalisk (from lvl 11 until 37 so far).
He just sits there taking hits. He doesn't do much damage but can be very useful occupying groups while you busy yourself picking your targets.
Granted he takes a while to get to the target but you can work round that when soloing. Of course when he gets in water he swims twice as fast as any character.
Food wise he's easy. He's not too picky as he'll eat whatever you cook, meat, and fish though I'm not sure about fungus. Only thing he seems to dislike is rotten or old meat.

If you want an eat-anything machine the best I've seen so far is a Boar

[Butcher]

Also have a bear for instance work - low dps, high HP, high armour (Also eats anything, including mages bread)

Pfft feeding our precious sweet rolls to a dirty bear!