So what pet to use in raid? The Cataclysm pet flowchart and spreadsheets. :3

[Jekyll]

Thanks to Malazee who had posted this on the petopia community forum.

The original discussion can be found at
http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4753

[Soothing Voice]

Very accurate post, looks all right.
Side note: somewhat depressing that hunters are the new buff vending machines.

[Tiglits]

Very accurate post, looks all right.
Side note: somewhat depressing that hunters are the new buff vending machines.

You're kidding, right?
Being ABLE to bring more buffs is a DEPRESSING thing? If anything, I'd be LOVING all that attention, instead of having it torn from us poor Shamans. </3


Some actually great info up there, too. Gonna save these to look at later :P

[Jekyll]

Very accurate post, looks all right.
Side note: somewhat depressing that hunters are the new buff vending machines.

I see us the jack of all buffs. our new spec will be mm, sv and bm (BUFF MASTERY).

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you're kidding, right?
Being able to bring more buffs is a depressing thing? If anything, i'd be loving all that attention, instead of having it torn from us poor shamans. </3


some actually great info up there, too. Gonna save these to look at later

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[Karnige]

It'll be the same few pets everytime but it's no big deal. I love my spirit beasts and who doesn't like heals?

[Jekyll]

It'll be the same few pets everytime but it's no big deal. I love my spirit beasts and who doesn't like heals?

almost all of the exotic pets are cool so I have no complains if I have to resort using exotic beast in every raids. Besides 3 out of my current 5 pets are exotics LOL

[Nikoll]

So, does this make hunters hybrids yet? You have nearly every buff in the game at your disposal.

[ketzil]

where's my crab on those charts . in all seriousness I know what Voice means. But the fact that you now have access to many pets at any given time really makes hunters new buffing possibilities quite interesting.

[Jekyll]

So, does this make hunters hybrids yet? You have nearly every buff in the game at your disposal.

yes hunters can tank and heal in raids too?

[Karnige]

almost all of the exotic pets are cool so I have no complains if I have to resort to using exotic beast in every raids. Besides 3 out of my current 5 pets are exotics LOL

very true. I don't know if it'll be a huge huge deal seeing how actual classes will have the buffs also. I think in the end it'll be the standard wolf, raptor, cat.

[Jekyll]

where's my crab on those charts . in all seriousness I know what Voice means. But the fact that you now have access to many pets at any given time really makes hunters new buffing possibilities quite interesting.

crab still retain pin last time I check but the damage aspect of it was removed.

[Zoma]

So, does this make hunters hybrids yet? You have nearly every buff in the game at your disposal.

Not unless their pet can be main tank or tank-healer. Otherwise, hunters are still considered a dps class

[Jekyll]

anyway from my own theory crafting the best pet for MM is the physical damage increment debuff pets, or armor reduction pets or Hyena for bleed increased damage debuff, while SV would certainly benefit from windserpent and dragonhawk.

The only pointless pet skill i see is giving 2 tenacity bleed debuff and one of the tenacity pet which receive is an exotic which is rendering it almost useless as Bm hunter has no bleed, yet.

[3clipse]

very true. I don't know if it'll be a huge huge deal seeing how actual classes will have the buffs also. I think in the end it'll be the standard wolf, raptor, cat.

If the current numbers hold true, Exotics will give better DPS because they'll just straight up deal more damage.

[Dairystyle]

Very accurate post, looks all right.
Side note: somewhat depressing that hunters are the new buff vending machines.

I find it slightly more depressing that we're going to need a flow chart and graphs to figure out the right pet for the right raid for the right boss and for the right situation. What's happened is going from you need only this one pet to you need at least a dozen pets and not just to pick from but for every occasion.

It's ironic hunters are going to get exactly what they wanted in a twisted sort of way. Nope, no more cat or wolf or other exclusive type that was required to be taken seriously. Now you must have no less than a dozen or more types to fulfill every imaginable buff that there is incase one is missing.

[Herecius]

FOX. I want to use a fox. D:

[Jekyll]

I find it slightly more depressing that we're going to need a flow chart and graphs to figure out the right pet for the right raid for the right boss and for the right situation. What's happened is going from you need only this one pet to you need at least a dozen pets and not just to pick from but for every occasion.

It's ironic hunters are going to get exactly what they wanted in a twisted sort of way. Nope, no more cat or wolf or other exclusive type that was required to be taken seriously. Now you must have no less than a dozen or more types to fulfill every imaginable buff that there is incase one is missing.

So you find it's annoying you have to actually use all the pets you had tamed instead of them sitting in the stable only to be used when you parade in dalaran?

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FOX. I want to use a fox. D:

yes my surv hunter would use fox too, a cunning hunter with a 'cunning' pet :3

[arcon]

Very nice chart.

[Jekyll]

Very nice chart.

as much as I would love to take credit for it, all credits are due to Malazee from the petopia forum. You can check her thread on the link in the op.

[Dairystyle]

So you find it's annoying you have to actually use all the pets you had tamed instead of them sitting in the stable only to be used when you parade in dalaran?

No, that's not what I said. What I said is Blizzard took what hunters wanted and went too far with it. Going from being required a single pet we now require multiple pets and still have no choice in which ones we want to use because it would not be optimal and people (hardcore/wannabe hardcore) raiders are all about being optimum.