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WotLK: Hunter Pet FAQ

Overview

  1. What is all this WotLK stuff?
  2. Where can I find official information on WotLK?
  3. Where can I find patch notes for the beta?
  4. Where are you getting your information?
  5. Do you have more information on WotLK hunters in general?
  6. So what are these big hunter pet changes?
  7. What if I don't buy WotLK? Will the changes still affect me?

Pet Skills

  1. What has changed with pet skills?
  2. What do you mean Beast Training, training points, and loyalty no longer exist?
  3. So how do I train my pet?
  4. Does that mean I can use my third pet slot for a real pet?
  5. If loyalty no longer exists, can my pet still run away?
  6. What skills does a pet know when it's first tamed?
  7. What are the focus dump skills?
  8. What are the unique family skills?
  9. Does this affect existing pets also?
  10. My pet knows both Bite and Claw! Will it lose one?
  11. Will my ravager still know Gore? Will my bat or owl still know Screech?
  12. If boars get Gore, what happened to Charge?
  13. Will my pet still know Dash or Dive?
  14. What about the old passive skills?
  15. So all pets get all the resistances?
  16. Do pet skills still have ranks?
  17. Is each pet still limited to four active skills?

Pet Talents

  1. What are pet talents?
  2. Hunters have three talent trees to choose from -- do pets?
  3. Which family gets which tree?
  4. How are the three trees different?
  5. Okay, but what is each tree good for?
  6. How are pet talents different from pet skills?
  7. How are pet talents like pet skills?
  8. How do pets earn talent points? How many do they get?
  9. Do you get more talent points if you level up the pet yourself?
  10. Can you respec your pet?
  11. Does the cost go up every time you respec?
  12. Do you have a pet talent calculator?

Specific Talents

  1. What does Carrion Feeder do?
  2. Does Charge stack with Dash or Dive?
  3. Does Charge stack with Prowl?

Pet Control

  1. Do pet talents go on the pet action bar or on the hunter's action bars?
  2. Has the pet action bar gotten any bigger?
  3. But I can have more than four active abilities, right?
  4. So where do I put those extra active abilities?
  5. What is the casting priority for skills and talents?
  6. Has Blizzard done anything to make focus management easier? Updated
  7. What's this about pets assisting? Updated

Pet Stats

  1. Do some pets still have higher base DPS, health or armor?
  2. What about pets with "caster" stats?
  3. What is this about auto-leveling? What happens if I tame a low-level pet?
  4. Will my stabled pets level up too?
  5. Does the low-level pet get all the right skills? Does it get all its talent points?

Pets & Families

  1. What's this about "exotic" pets?
  2. What does that mean?
  3. What Exotic pets can I tame? Updated
  4. Are Exotic pets new families?
  5. Do Exotic pets have different abilities?
  6. Are devilsaurs Exotic pets or not? New!
  7. Any new pet families?
  8. Can you tame protodragons?
  9. Any new pet models or appearances?
  10. What happened to the Owl family?
  11. Are Dire Ravens considered carrion birds or birds of prey?
  12. Are hawks considered carrion birds or birds of prey?
  13. Do saber worgs use the wolf or worg animation set?
  14. Why can't I tame (a particular new pet)?
  15. Why don't the new pets come with any skills?
  16. Any other changes to pets or pet families?

Other Changes

  1. Has anything changed with happiness?
  2. So I still have to feed my pet?
  3. Can I feed my pet in combat?
  4. Have they added any stable slots? Updated
  5. How does pet aggro feel? Can pets hold aggro?

Still Got a Question?

If you've got a question about hunter pets in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion that isn't answered here, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do to get it answered!