Originally Posted by
Kaeth
If you're soloing, your pet won't be attacking from the back. When Growl is on, your pet's AI behavior changes, and it attacks from the front. If we're talking about some trivial non-elite that your pet isn't tanking, then pet choice is of little consequence.
Or, I suppose you might be kiting rather than pet tanking. Admittedly the direhorn --or any tank pet -- would be a poor choice for most kiting-centric battles (I still use my tenacious spirit beast soloing pterrorwings, despite kiting at least half the fight).
And in a non-kiting solo situation, while fighting anything hard enough for pet choice to even matter, when would you ever take a wolf over a turtle/beetle (or spirit beast)? I'll kill random non-elites in a few seconds with or without 5% more crit chance; when soloing a Pterrorwing Skyscreamer, shell shield or spirit mend will do noticeably more good than 5.15% additional dps.