Best starter Hunter pet?

[Mythabay]

I just wanted to see what starter pets people liked most.... Barely anybody uses the Hunter Forum so I stuck it in General Discussions?
I am not looking for advice, just wanna see what people like.

My favourite is Raptor and then probably Saber and Dragonhawk.

[Raugnaut]

It honestly doesn't matter too much. You only get a few actually useful things - A slow (Generally with low uptime), a defense CD (Turtle, beetle, ect), a Brez (Moth), or Time Warp (Nether Ray, Core Hound).

So, if you really want the utility, get one of the utility pets. Try wow-petopia.com

[xStevooo]

It doesn't matter anymore

[Mythabay]

It honestly doesn't matter too much. You only get a few actually useful things - A slow (Generally with low uptime), a defense CD (Turtle, beetle, ect), a Brez (Moth), or Time Warp (Nether Ray, Core Hound).

So, if you really want the utility, get one of the utility pets. Try wow-petopia.com

The point of the Thread is to see which they like best to start with...

[Constraint]

In Vanilla, I liked cats, either the Barrens ones if I was Horde (Echeyakee, or the black lion near Ratchet if I could find him), or just the regular Teldrassil Moonsabers if I was Alliance.

On most of my hunters however, I'd switch to the black/blue armored boars in Razorfen Kraul, the ones in the middle. I used to see it as a little challenge, to solo tame one at fairly low level. You had to time your Invis pot well and play pretty decently to not get destroyed.

Man, I felt so much more attached to my pets when they had happiness/food etc. I know it was a pretty basic system and frustrating to some, but it still kinda kept me immersed. RIP all that kinda thing though.

[Mythabay]

In Vanilla, I liked cats, either the Barrens ones if I was Horde (Echeyakee, or the black lion near Ratchet if I could find him), or just the regular Teldrassil Moonsabers if I was Alliance.

On most of my hunters however, I'd switch to the black/blue armored boars in Razorfen Kraul, the ones in the middle. I used to see it as a little challenge, to solo tame one at fairly low level. You had to time your Invis pot well and play pretty decently to not get destroyed.

Man, I felt so much more attached to my pets when they had happiness/food etc. I know it was a pretty basic system and frustrating to some, but it still kinda kept me immersed. RIP all that kinda thing though.

I reckon it's pretty cool that if you are a Horde, you can go for the Teldrassil Sabers anyway, and vice versa...

[Lord Pebbleton]

Get the rare bear in Dun Morogh and call him Bjorn. He's super badass.
Keep him until you can catch King Bangalash, then tame him and keep his name.
Then you level up some more and you go get Skoll, the spirit beast. Let him keep his name.
And voilà! You now have a tanky pet, a beastmaster pet, and a pet for all occasions. And all of them are super badass too.

(PS: for a Bloodlust pet, go get Chromaggus)

[Queen of Hamsters]

I used to like cats the most, hands down.

But, as the years have gone by and I've seen new models, the old world cat models just won't do anymore. I wish they'd update more models, Hyenas and old world Lions in particular.

Now I just tame a mastiff early on, or any rare using a newer model, for new hunters. The pets I'm after don't start becoming tameable until way late into the leveling process. With Legion, I got a white bear with the new model asap. The model looks so damned good!

[Constraint]

I reckon it's pretty cool that if you are a Horde, you can go for the Teldrassil Sabers anyway, and vice versa...

Yeah totally agreed, it always kept things fresh, and it was nice to hunt something eye-catching if you felt like it.

I remember that cat in Mulgore, The Rake or something. Used to have a super quick attack speed before they normalised them, was good for spell push-back in PvP. Same as the ZG bats, think it was like 1 sec attack speed which was amazing.

[Mythabay]

I used to like cats the most, hands down.

But, as the years have gone by and I've seen new models, the old world cat models just won't do anymore. I wish they'd update more models, Hyenas and old world Lions in particular.

Now I just tame a mastiff early on, or any rare using a newer model, for new hunters. The pets I'm after don't start becoming tameable until way late into the leveling process. With Legion, I got a white bear with the new model asap. The model looks so damned good!

So true, the new models for most of the animals, especially the bears are superb..

[Donald Hellscream]

Robo bunny because Mechanical pets are cool.

[Mythabay]

Yeah totally agreed, it always kept things fresh, and it was nice to hunt something eye-catching if you felt like it.

I remember that cat in Mulgore, The Rake or something. Used to have a super quick attack speed before they normalised them, was good for spell push-back in PvP. Same as the ZG bats, think it was like 1 sec attack speed which was amazing.

Definitely, and the rare Spider (don't remember the name) from Redridge Mountains had surprisingly high health even when tamed... Some of the pets were so good, and helped so very well... Another good one was the Gorilla rare near Booty Bay, High attack and High health in one was so goooood!!!!

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Robo bunny because Mechanical pets are cool.

Who isn't gonna love a little mech following them around, it is so fun... especially the little noises they make as they move and run behind you, they really subtle sometimes, which makes it so much better for the game's detail.

[ItachiZaku]

My hunters use raptors, but starter pet I'd say spider, since I PVP a lot, it's handy to have their web ability in those couple starter BGs.

[digichi]

Robo bunny because Mechanical pets are cool.

Done and done.

[Lanrefni]

Robo Squirrel is also pretty awesome.

[Trollokdamus]

It really depends on my mog. Right now I'm rocking a BRF Mythic set and armored fiery wolves from Tanaan are a perfect match. That said, I mostly enjoy pets which are unique in some way, whether it be appearance or backstory. Or both, like Gara, Fenryr, or Morashu.

[Thage]

Robo Bunny! The robot bunny alone makes me almost wanna level up a gnome hunter.

[khazlol]

a favourite of mine http://www.wow-petopia.com/look.php?...ectralightning

requires a ton of patience tho :P

Edit: y foxes no option 4 vote D:

[Rudkobing]

It doesn't matter anymore

Sadly, yes. :-(

[Daedius]

Wolf or Raptor I'd say.