Pet training points

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Hello,

How do you struggle with this points? What is the best schedule for them? I am level 39, and my pet is 38 (boar), but it can learn all of these stuff? Is there any guide how to learn skill for DPS and tank pets? How do you manage with it?

Thank you for your answers.

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I am not quite sure what you’re asking. So I’ll have a stab at what I -think- you’re asking.

First: Hunter pets are divided into families. Your pet boar is, surprise surprise in the boar family.

Which is good, boars eat everything. Better than average health, normal armour, low damage.
It’s all in the skills.
Skills the boar can learn (and should be kept up to date)

Bite
Charge
Cower
Growl
Dash

These skills is where most your skillpoints will end up going, as you’ll have to catch new boars at higher levels and train your current boar the skills they teach you.
The skillpoints from trainers. Like a flat amount of stamina or armour. I tend to skip, as they cost a lot in the long run, and don’t add all that much.

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There might be a guide on what’s best for each situation, I personally just guess.

For levelling, you want your pet to have moderate resistance to all magic and moderate health or armor. You can get away with low pet skills it’s just noticeably weaker when your pet critical strikes. I currently have high level growl and claw but low level cower and bite. Not the best for dungeons but levelling is all the same.

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You really don’t need guides. You get Beast Lore. If I remember correctly, it’ll tell you if the creature in question can teach you new skills. Resistances I’d agree with. Health and armour, just use the talent ones, you’ll most likely level as BM anyway.

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Still have to find the creature in question, which isn’t always easy. Example: Screech rank 1 gets taught by exactly one mob in the entire game, a carrion bird in Westfall. Horde players who want screech on their carrions, owls or bats will have to travel there to learn it, or wait until around level 30 to get screech rank 2. There’s no way a horde player will figure that out with just beast lore, without consulting a guide.

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Im interested in pet training points, I dont have enough points to learn all (Frost, nature, natural, fire resistance…, great stamina, bite, charge, etc.). So I think there is some kind of guide how to menage all your points(best way to use your 300 points) - best way to use your resurce.

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Think of the training points in the same way you think of your own talent trees.

You can’t have all talents on every tree for your class, and you can’t have every pet ability; you must choose the ones that fit your build, because your pet will only earn a finite number of training points as it levels.

There are Beastmaster-focused talents, obvious ones being Great Stamina, Natural armor etc. There are DPS-focused talents, such as upgraded Bite, rake etc. There are debuff and CC-focused talents. How you spec your pet depends heavily upon your own spec and playstyle - for example if you’re making a PvP build you’ll probably want to skip most of the BM or DPS stuff, and invest heavily in anything that hampers enemy players; whereas if you’re more interested in soloing elites while leveling you’ll be wanting to invest heavily in stamina, armor etc.

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So since Im playing a tanky beast with a BM tree I should take Nature armor, Great Stamina, and resistance as much as I can… Bite, Growl and Charge on max level?

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Growl for levelling thats the taunt:p

Edit: Even if you’re not aiming for damage, low rank of bite or claw is useful for dumping your pets focus; otherwise its a wasted resource

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Okay, right now my boar have on level 38:

Arcane Resistance rank 2/2
Fire Resistance rank 2/2
Shadow Resistance rank 2/2
Nature Resistance rank 1/2
Natural Armor rank 6/6
Growl rank 4/4
Bite rank 5/5
Charge rank 3/3
Great Stamina rank 5/6
Frost Resistance rank 0/2
Dash - not learn yet (dont know is this even importan)

Right now, I have 19 more points to manage, but I think i will wait for level 40 - since Im close (15k xp needed).

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It’s not a big deal but arcane is probably the type of magic your pet will be hit by the least.

It’s fine really, if it’s for levelling solo your pet can tank decently(except frost elementals:P)

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Yeah, particularly when leveling. Growl is obviously important too, probably the most important skill your pet has if you’re soloing.

Leveling’s usually going to involve a lot of solo play. Sure you’ll team up for some quests, but you’re still going to need to be able to handle mobs, and the more mobs you can handle at once the better.

Competent Beastmastery Hunters can do some really amazing things with a strong pet. Rounding up three, or even four mobs at once with their pets, and tanking them while they burn them down with their ranged abilities. The more hit points, and armor your pet has the better.

At end game things are different and if you’re interested in end game content you’re probably going to be re-speccing yourself and your pet to match your chosen play style. (or taming a new pet with a different spec). Marksmanship is widely regarded as then highest DPS raiding spec, and that will also be reflected in your pet’s build as you tease out as much damage from it as possible. Some people say Survival is the smart PvP build, but there’s always been some debate about this, with others preferring to stick to the BM ‘big red kitty’ build, or aim for high burst damage with MM

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wow-petopia. com/classic/

Thats what you need.

Most new people leveling do what i did at first, get a young low level pet and use it with no or few skills on it such as higher level bite/claw.

So what you want to do is check petopia for what TYPE of attacks your pet can do.
Then find what animals in the wild actually use these skills.

For example:
i had a low level nightsaber that had no skills but autoattack and later growl from trainer.

So at appropriate level i dropped my cat off at stable master.
Then i went to loch modan and tamed a black bear, used it to kill things until i learned the new skill (no need to feed it. just keep it alive and kill things).
And then i abandon the bear and while in loch modan still i tamed a spider (forgot name, sorry).
Killed some stuff until chatwindow said i learned new skill again.
Abandon that spider like a deadbeat, and HS home and pickup my cat.
Trained my pet in a much higher level bite and claw (it did massive dps after that).

So i suggest you do the same with bite for your boar.
If you dont have charge i suggest you also get that as it is a nice thing with boars.

wow-petopia. com/classic/abilities.php#bite
wow-petopia. com/classic/abilities.php#charge

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Aw man my boar was lost to a bug, using a cat now. I miss charge :frowning:

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Bear in mind you can only teach a pet 4 “active” skills. Bite, claw, charge etc.
So don’t teach your pvp pet growl. You won’t need it.

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Since i farm instances on my own i use gorilla for the AOE,
But i still miss charge and i havent even used it in this leveling trail :smiley:.

Thanks to this post i remembered that i need to go get the new rank of thunderstomp AND bite.

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I read about it. Need 1 more level to go to Dustwallow to catch a croc for bite level 6. Also I have max charge for my current level because my pet is Bellygrub :smiley:

I was just curious how people using their resources (training points), wanted to learn something new and also to improve my pet.

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personally i skipped the resistance skills completely.
i just have attack skills, (bite+thunderstomp in my case)
And then max stamina, max armor.
I dont get hit enough with spells to warrant the resistances.

In instances the casters die rather fast and dont get much damage off.
While the physical damage dealers hit like bricks made out of razors for some reason.

So i opted for the stamina+armor instead of resistance.
And any DPS skills to make the fight shorter, aka less time to take damage.

I think it comes down to how you level/play and what you are fighting with.
While leveling you will mostly get hit by physical i would say.
When instancing with friends you wont get hit much at all.

This is all for leveling.
Endgame or level 55+ is a bit of a different story as here you have more AOE and other things that are magical.
When you reach that point then do a new assessment and priority if needed.
Doing alot of UBRS and BRD, Well fire is a obvious need.
Possibly even go over to wolf and passive in fights that keep killing the pet.

I digress™, Good luck :smiley:

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