Beginning Hunter FAQ
The FAQ will be in the form of Guides for each area on the right side bar here. I’ll be adding links as the guides are completed.
- Are hunters any good?
- How do you play a hunter?
- Guns or Bows?
- Which weapon skills should I take?
- 2H or dual wield?
- What weapon enchants should I take?
- What stats are important?
- What’s with the ‘hunter gear’ jokes?
- What professions should I take?
- Should I play differently in a group?
- How do I use traps?
- How should I spend my talent points?
Introduction to Hunter’s Pets:
- When do I get a pet?
- How does tame beast work?
- My pet shrank as soon as he was tamed! Lame. Why? Will he get bigger?
- How can I tell if a pet is tamable?
- What does Call Pet do?
- What does Dismiss Pet do?
- What does Feed Pet do?
- What does Revive Pet do?
- What are skill points?
- What does Pet Training do?
- How do I get rid of my pet?
- What happens if my pet dies?
- Can I have more than one pet?
- What is the stable?
- How do I level up a pet?
- How does my pet gain loyalty?
- What is a pet family?
- How are pet families different?
- What’s the coolest looking pet?
- Where do I find a ____?
- Are elite beasts better pets?
- What are caster pets?
- What pet should I choose?
- I keep hearing about boars. Should I take one?
Pet Skills:
- What skills can my pet learn?
- What are the best skills?
- How does my pet learn skills?
- How do I learn skills to teach my pet?
- What is Loyalty Level?
- Will my ____ ever get a unique or improved skill?
Problems:
- My pet keeps running away and I need to tame a new one!
- There’s a red, unhappy or yellow, blah face next to my pet.
- My pet can’t taunt mobs off me!
- I can’t tame ____.
- I can’t get a group!
Rumors:
- There’s alot of misinformation out there about hunters. If you have a question or want to check on a rumor head over here.
The Mystic Hunter 
Zefram said,
October 8, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Might want to have a section for racials, and what race to roll if you’re a min/maxing type of person.
Keep in mind that for raiding, weapon skill is a massive bonus. +5 Weapon Skill is an effective 3% +hit to something 3 levels above you (the math changes once you’re within “2 levels” of the mob, so another 5 skill points would only give you 0.5% to hit). And raid bosses are typically level cap + 3 mobs.
If you’re planning on end-game raiding, then you could do worse to go with Dwarf or Troll.
PorkHunter said,
November 17, 2007 at 5:28 pm
I have a question about the training points of pets. Since pets have 350 training points at lv70, if you train a pet and it has skills already like bite 9, will that bite 9 have taken up some points or will the pet still have 350 points and bite 9?
Znodis said,
November 19, 2007 at 8:22 am
Nope. If you tame a pet with a skill, it will start with negative skill points equal to the cost of the skill.
thorat said,
March 17, 2008 at 5:51 am
Can you unlearn the skills your pet comes with when you train them and use the points to teach them others?
Znodis said,
March 17, 2008 at 11:00 am
Yes and no.
For your pet to unlearn their abilities, just go to a It should only cost a few silver and they can be found in most major cities right next to the .
The ‘no’ part is that if your pet is still at loyalty 1 – Rebellious and knows an ability, they have negative training points. If you untrain the pet, you will be at 0 training points until you hit loyalty 2.
hunterrocks said,
April 11, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Can you tell me the best skills that a pet can learn? for example should I choose claw over bite or should I pick both or should I spend some points in great stamina and natural armour?
Predatur said,
April 15, 2008 at 1:09 am
is there a way i can toggle prowl on and off so i dont outrun my pet when running? thx for any answers/input =D
Znodis said,
April 15, 2008 at 7:53 am
I’m going to have to put this on the FAQ; it’s a good one.
Prowl (or any other active ability) should be showing up on your pet action bar with a flashy graphic circling the button. This means it’s on auto-cast. To turn it off, right click the button. Right click again to turn auto-cast back on.
When auto-cast is off, you can left-click the button to use the ability a single time.
Capttovi said,
April 29, 2008 at 1:40 pm
How many skills can my cat have, elder nightsaber?
zookthegnome said,
June 9, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I don’t have World of Warcraft yet, but I’m gonna get it soon, and this info will help big time. Thanks man!
batgrl said,
August 2, 2008 at 11:58 am
I keep popping back in here because the one question I always have and that other hunters I play with ponder over is spending the pet talent points. I realize that WotLK will change all this – but at the moment things like “is it better to spend the talent points in stamina or armor” or “should I go for armor and stamina and just ignore all resistances?” seem to have multiple answers.
Znodis said,
August 3, 2008 at 12:09 am
I plan to answer the “HP vs Armor” question in one of my next few blog posts.
artanishunterguide said,
August 6, 2008 at 10:43 am
Hey
Really great that you’re keeping this going. It’s really inspired me with my own Hunter Guide. I love the amount of detail you go into about each pet.
Feel free to contact me, my guides at: http://www.artanishunterguide.wordpress.com.
Best of luck with the future, hope you keep going and update with Wrath,
Arty – Artanis
Degronch said,
August 16, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Ok, one question I have been unable to find a difinitive answer for;
If for example, I have a pet that does not naturally have BITE and I go tame/train a pet that does and aquire BITE rank 1 for example, must I continually train other beasts that have Bite Rank 2, Rank 3 and so on, all the way to endgame? Or, will I automatically gain the higher ranks as my pet levels?
Obviuosly this question applies to all active pet skills> For me and for others new to the Hunter class, it is important to know as with only 3 pet slots, keeping one slot open for constant taming/training all the way to endgame must be taken into consideration.
Spending hours to get rare pets and then realizing you have to abandon one to go tame/train another beast, only to improve the rank of the skill you already have is a real downer!
If this is indeed the case then really you only should have 2 pets keeping the 3rd slot open for continual taming and training!
Znodis said,
August 17, 2008 at 10:04 am
That’s exactly correct. Right now, you basically have to keep one of your stable slots open so that you can learn new ranks of abilities. That bit of craziness was balanced against the basic impossibility of keeping 3 pets while leveling. Fortunately, this is all being changed in WotLK. Pets will automatically know their non-talent abilities and those abilities will auto level with the pet.