The Pets

And the first question usually asked of a hunter, is what pets they have.  I may as well start at the beginning.

 

Avalanche grew up just outside of Darkshire.  He has faithfully followed Galoriar to the ends of Azeroth and beyond.  In Outlands, he even MT’d several dungeons.  He will always have a stable slot for when he’s not romping around with Gal.  However, once I started getting into some of the more serious end game content, I changed from Beast Mastery to MM.  With the change came a new pet, so that I could focus on DPS.  I should note that until this point, our normal tank was a Warrior.  Great for tanking one or two targets, but we needed Avalanche to OT often.  So since we were then geared and running with groups that were built right for the content (no more running dungeons with a warrior tank, balance druid healer, and 3 hunters…), I found Tarleton in need of some love.  He took off right from the start.  Focused on DPS, he will shock you if you get too close!   (read as he’s a wind serpent).  And for the most part, he’s the one that I run with.

However, with patch 3.0, they made some fun changes for hunters.  Specifically, the Gorilladin!  Yes, he is cool, yes, he is awesome.  No, he will not steal Avalanche’s stable slot – they made extra room!  So recently I’ve been leveling alts (only have until Nov 3^rd before the recruit-a-friend XP bonus goes away for my wife and I).  We’ve been doing a lot of one of us running our main through a dungeon and the other following with the remaining 3 chars, picking up loot along the way.  And with Gorilladin & chain volley???  Man we can crush through!  I send Gorilladin in, he picks up a room or 3 worth of mobs, brings them back, and I AOE down by chaining volley.  All that’s left is a pile of bodies and it’s off to the next room!  So Gorilladin will probably stick around for WotLK, and I’ll go back to Beast Mastery for leveling to 80.  After that, who knows.  He’ll probably always have a slot, specifically for leveling alts!  Oh, and his name is Mypally because he is essentially just that – my pally!