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I'm going to take you from level one all the way up to level 30 on the best pets you can have at each level, when you should be looking out for new ranks and all that. Time codes are available. You
A World of Warcraft hunter guide covering the best pets from level 1 to 30, pet training, loyalty mechanics, and taming tips.
Key Takeaways
- Learn pet abilities by buying them from the pet trainer, then training them to each pet in the Beast Training manual.
- Loyalty and training points are the gatekeepers for teaching pets new abilities; keep pets happy by feeding and fighting appropriate enemies.
- Some of the strongest family-specific abilities can only be obtained by taming wild pets, so stable management is essential.
What the video covers
- Guide covers World of Warcraft hunter pets from level 1 to 30, including which pets to use at each level and when to look for new ranks of abilities.
- Explains the pet trainer and pet manual: abilities are bought from the trainer, appear in the Beast Training manual (opened via the spellbook), and must then be trained to each pet individually.
- Pets only learn abilities if they meet the required level, match the proper family, and have enough training points.
- Some powerful family-specific abilities can only be obtained by taming wild pets, so stable masters in capital cities are needed to swap pets (up to three stable slots).
- Taming tip: use Freezing Trap and Concussive Shot before starting the tame; watching a pet use an ability lets you learn it, e.g. Tendon Rip from hyenas.
- Training points are gained by raising loyalty, which has six levels from Rebellious upward; loyalty is maintained by feeding pets and fighting enemies that are green (appropriate level) to the player.
- Feeding works best by waiting for the feeding buff to expire before feeding again, keeping the pet in the happy state for maximum loyalty gain and damage bonus.
- Pet-specific recommendations include Silver Pine Forest bears for Horde at level 12-13, Lockjaw black bears for Alliance swipe, and mastiffs in Duskwood for Furious Howl.
- Advises turning off pet taunt when joining groups to avoid aggro problems for the tank.
- Final section moves to hunter talents, covering Beastial Swiftness, Survivalist, Deterrence, Clever Traps, and legacy talent unlocks at level 30.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Level 1-30 Pet Overview
- 01:08Pet Trainer and Beast Training Manual Basics
- 02:22Finding Wild Pets and Stable Masters
- 03:25Taming Pets and Learning Abilities like Tendon Rip
- 04:24Loyalty Levels, Feeding, and Training Points
- 05:25Best Pet Recommendations by Level Range
- 07:14Group Tips: Turning Off Pet Taunt
- 09:54Hunter Talents and Legacy Talent Unlocks
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can skip to the level range that you're in. Let's get into it. We have a bunch of brand new hunters in the comment section. So, I want to go over a couple hunter basics. If you're a veteran hunter player and know how to get new
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abilities on your pet, you can skip forward. If however, if you have any confusion about loyalty points, pet management, spells, which spells to use on your pet, how to learn those spells on your pet, how to find those spells
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for your pet. I'm going to go over that really quick for you, but let's start here. So, there is a pet trainer that's different than your hunter trainer. The hunter trainer is going to be in all capital cities and also the pet trainer
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will be anytime there's a hunter trainer, there's going to be a pet trainer nearby. You just talk to this guy and you're going to be able to see all the things you can buy both now and in the future. And there's certain level
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requirements for you to unlock the ability to train something to your pet. So, first you'd have to buy this ability from this trainer. And then this ability is going to appear inside of your pet manual. You can find your pet manual
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inside of your general tab of your spell book. So, press P. And there's a beast training manual right here. If you click on that, it's going to open it up and then it's going to show all the things
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that you can train to it, even beyond its level rank and all that. So, understand that anytime we're gaining abilities, we're always sending them to the pet manual. And once you learn it in the pet manual, it's always going to be
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available to you to train all your future pets. As long as they reach the requirement of the required level, they are the proper family pet to be able to learn it, and they have the proper amount of training points. We're going
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to go over training points in just a second. Just to be clear, once you learn it from your pet trainer, your pet doesn't automatically know it. You then also have to go back to the pet manual after you purchase it from him to train
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it again to your pet. Your pet doesn't know anything by default. Notice like natural armor right here. Just buying it from my pet trainer wasn't enough. I also have to train it to my pet. And he has one training point to use. I can
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train this one ability. and now my pet knows it. We'll go over that in more detail later when we get to training points. But this isn't the only way of acquiring things to put into your pet manual. You can also go out and find
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things in the wild. In fact, some of the most powerful abilities, including the family specific stuff, you can only find out in the wild. So, let's get into that. Most questing hubs in all capital cities are going to have stable masters.
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Just keep an eye out for them. You'll even see the icon change when you hover over them to like a horseshoe. I suggest whenever you're trying to go out and find a new pet that has an ability you
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don't have, you're going to want to stable your pet. You can have up to three of them. The first one's going to cost five silver, then the next one's going to cost five gold. And unfortunately, we can only have three
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pets max right now in forever. Hopefully hopefully they'll increase this in the future, but that's a discussion for another video. So, first of all, make sure you either sub in a pet you don't mind getting rid of, or you want to make
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sure that you just empty your pet by dragging the character over here to one of the stable slots and make sure your current pet is empty or it has that fodder pet you're willing to get rid of.
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And I'm looking for the new tendon rip ability that's used by hyenas. So, I found one here that I want to tame. So, first what I've got to do is I got to make sure that I don't have a pet
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equipped. So, this is my pet that I'm willing to get rid of. Right click, release, hit okay, and then your pet's gone. Something you can do to tame that makes it a little bit easier. So, you can put down a freezing trap in front of
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you, concussive shot, and then immediately start your tame as soon as it gets close. It'll be slowed on the way to you, and then once it reaches here, it's going to be frozen for 9 seconds. And I can see down in the
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bottom left here, if I hover over it, this is tendon rip. This is the ability I was looking to get from hyenas. Now, if I want to be able to train this to future pets, what I first have to do is
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I just have to watch this pet perform the ability. So, the very first thing I do whenever I get a new pet is I feed him once to make sure that his happiness doesn't degrade to the point where he
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leaves. If he does die when he first tame him, then there's potential you might lose him. You have to go get another one. And I'll send him out. And basically, I just want to watch him perform this ability. I can see him
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being used. I can see it being used down here. Oh, he was not using it automatically, so I went ahead and did it for him. And you can see it was very lucky on the very first time I clicked
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the ability, I was able to learn tendon rip. So, now I see it down here. And now I see that I learned this spell, but where is it? It's going to be in my pet manual. So I don't even have to go back
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to town at all. I don't have to go back to my trainer or anything. I just have this tendon rip available in my pet training manual. Now, let's say I got rid of this hyena and I trained a
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different one. I'd be able to train this ability to it once I got enough training points for him. As you can see right now, I have zero training points with this pet because I just got them. So how
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do we increase those? We increase those by leveling up the loyalty level. There's six loyalty levels and rebellious is the lowest. And the loyalty level is going to be based on kind of an invisible XP bar. You can
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think of it that way or a reputation meter that can go up and down. Right here, if your pet is unhappy, it is actively losing loyalty over time. So, you can think of it like your XP or reputation is bleeding away. You want to
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feed your pet. Don't just make it scarf something back to back, but you want to feed it. And then you're going to see a a buff go over it like this. The feeding effect, it's going to happen over 15
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seconds. Let this buff fully expire before you just make it scarf down another piece of meat or whatever item and then you can feed it another thing.
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And you can think of this almost like a rejoove, like it's just a hot that's going to slowly increase the happiness meter over time. Um, so you can see that we don't really benefit from just feeding it again and again and again. So
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what I normally do is I just keep feeding it and let the hut fully go through. And we want to get this into the green level. You can see he's at 100% normal damage and he's gaining loyalty. But if we want to get it to
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that higher level where the face turns green, that's where you're going to be gaining the most amount of loyalty possible as you perform actions with the pet. So here we're going to go ahead and gain it. Again, I haven't been keeping
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track, but I think it's been about four pieces of meat that I've given it so far. And then now we're at the happy level. This is the highest it can be.
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So, we're actually going to do additional damage. And we are actively gaining loyalty. And we're not going to gain loyalty just sitting here. What we need to do is we actually need to fight with the pet. And the pet, much like XP,
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it's only going to benefit loyalty-wise if we fight things that are green to you. So, fighting these heckle fang hyenas is perfect. they're around his level and I'm able to kill them quickly.
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And so I'm not only gaining experience points with my pet, but I'm also gaining loyalty levels as well. A quick side note, Growl doesn't take any loyalty points for you to be able to train it.
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And you get this from your pet trainer. And now at this point, it's going to make it a little bit easier to fight with him because he's going to try to taunt the enemies. Now, let's get him to
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loyalty one. You might have seen it there. My pet just leveled up to unruly.
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So, at this point, I did get some training points. So, now at this point, I have some options where I can actually spend some of these training points. You get about 15 per loyalty level. And then at that point, you're able to pick from
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your list of abilities you train, not only from your pet trainer, but also the ones you found out there in the wild.
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For some of these, you're going to have to get your pet up to a certain level for it to be able to train them. So, your hunter knows them, but the pet level needs to be high enough so that
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you're able to actually train it. And just to show you here, so if I train bite level two, notice that you just have to pay the difference when it comes to the next level after that. So there's no worries about training your pet bite
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level two or the lower level ranks of abilities. You're not losing training points in the process of just trying to increase the ranks. Same thing is going to go for greater stamina. Greater stamina rank three. Notice when I train
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this got a lot less expensive. So, don't worry too much about which you train first or waiting for certain ranks or anything like that. You can just train things as soon as you want. Now, as far as pet management goes down on your bar,
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if it's sparkling around the ability, that means it's turned on. The pet's going to use it immediately. So, you can rightclick it again and it's going to turn it off. So, now it would have to be manually cast. One thing you do want to
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keep in mind, new hunter players out there, if you're joining a dungeon group and you want to turn your pets taunt off, you're going to right click on growl. And you want to make sure you turn that off because that's going to
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make aggro a lot more difficult for the tank and it's just going to get your group in trouble. So just make sure whenever you're joining a group, you rightclick and turn that taunt off. Now, something to consider in our first pet
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that we tame at level 10, we can get bite level two with our level 10 pet.
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And each of the races has a good option for this. starting at level 10. For dwarves, you can go get a starving winter wolf. This one is going to come with bite two. For night elves, you can get a webwood silk spinner here in
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Teldrasil. For humans, you can tame a prowler on the east side of Elin Forest.
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Tarin, you're going to get your prairie wolf alpha in Molor. Right now, if you want the very best one you could possibly get, the rake is going to be what you want to look for. This is going to be a rare that's padding around
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Molore. Now, if you there is another option that's only a 0.1 difference in attack speed between itself and the rake, and that's the Savannah Patriarch. If you wanted to get one of these, they do have a 1.3 attack
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speed, and you can get them in the Barren. And they're a lot more easy to get because there's not just one of them and it's not on a rare spawn timer. At level 15, you'll be able to grab one of
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these as opposed to the rake, which is at level 10. Now, as far as open world soloing leveling is concerned, Carerion Bird at this point is going to take over as our best option. However, before we tame him, we probably want to get the
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next rank of both bite and claw, which come available at 16 as well. So, humans and dwarves can get bite three from the wood lurker in Loadon. Horde players can get it from the Stone Talon Mountains from the Deep Moss Creeper. So, Alliance
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gets it at 17 and Horde can get it at 16. Next, claw three. The Black Bear Patriarch at level 16 is going to be equipped with claw 3. Horde players can also grab it from the claw clattering crawler in Ashenvil at level 19. There's
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only one mob in the entire game at this level bracket that has the screech ability, and it's the greater flesh ripper, which is over in Westfall.
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That's where it's a little bit more difficult for horde players to be able to go get it. No worries, though. The quickest way to get there is just going to Anguro by taking the zeppelin that's opposite Under City and then just
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swimming up the side of Anguro all the way to Westfall. It'll take you 10 15 minutes, no problem. Just make sure you avoid the enemies on the islands leading there because they are going to be skulls and will one-shot you. Well,
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pretty close. Also, there's a secret along the way I won't spoil for you. So, it's definitely worth the trip. At least I think it's new with Forever. Tell me if I'm wrong in the comment section below. So, now a quick note for bear
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lovers out there. I'm a big fan of the new abilities given to bear. It was initially the one I was looking at as the best solo pet you could have, but right now demoralizing screech is just so unbearably strong. It's really hard
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to ignore the fact that Screech is outperforming the bear, at least currently with the current level ranks.
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But as of right now, Swipe One's just not cutting it compared to demoralizing screech one. as we move into 20 to 30, there could be potential for bear to be strong here when we can pick up swipe two, which I think is coming in around
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level 24. But just in case you want to get your bear up and rolling for Swipe 2, Swipe can be found on two bears.
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First, the giant grizzled bear in Silver Pine Forest is going to be the earliest option for horde players at level 12 to 13. Alliance players can get swipe from grizzled from the grizzled black bear in Lockadon. We want to tame one of those
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bears, watch it perform swipe so we learn it, and then the black bear patriarch at level 16 is going to be equipped with claw three. So now at this point, we're arriving at level 20. We're ready for the level 20 to 30 bracket. We
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either have a bear, carrying bird, or cat. Cat's going to be more of your DPS flavor. Carrying bird is going to be more of that solo openw world all-around strong pick. And then the bear is your optional if you like the bear play
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style. And they should all have rank three of claw and rank three of bite.
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Now let's look forward at what unlocks are coming up from level 20 to 30. Our first power spike is going to come at level 24 with the unlock of bite for alliance. Keep an eye out for the leech
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widow in the wetlands at level 24. Or players can use the giant moss creeper in level at level 24 in hills of Brad foothills. Another convenient one for alliance is going to be the black ravager in duskwood. The black ravager
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mastiff is going to be right next to the black ravager in duskwood. And this also is going to have furious howl. So if you are a survival player looking for the next rank of furious howl. There you go.
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Just one more convenient one for horde players at level 27. If you're leveling an ashen veil, you can also get bite four from a ghost paw alpha. Also have the next rank of furious howl. So you can enjoy that if you are a survival
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hunter. For claw four, you can get it from the elder Ashenville bear in Ashenville. This is the best option for both sides. You can also get it from the scorpashi snapper, but that's not until level 30 and it's in desilus. The
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scorpashi snappers are also going to have venom strike 2. So, if you're playing with scorpions, then this is a good one for you. Also, at level 24, you can get charge three if you are a bore player, a bore pet player. Only tough
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part about that is you have to get it from belly grub, which is a quest NPC.
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So, he's going to be pretty hard to get a hold of. Same thing goes where if you tame Agamar, being that he's a boss and he drops pretty good loot, I doubt your party's going to let you tame him. But,
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at level 30, we might be able to solo our way up there. But, we'll have to see on that. I remember some of the normal bores, the nonboss bores in Razer Fan Crawl giving charge three. It was a long
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time ago though, so if anyone knows for sure in the comment section below, let me know. Can we get charge three from just one of these? Cloud Serpent players can get lightning breath three from Cloud Serpents in Thousand Needles.
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Cragstalkers in Thousand Needles are going to be able to teach you cower 3. Cower is a threat lowering move for your pet. So, if you're trying to keep the aggro off the pet, maybe you're running survival, something you might want to
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take a look at. And I also want to mention you can train from your pet trainer, greater stamina 4, and also natural armor for at level 24. As far as level 30, there's not a whole lot going on when it comes to special skills we
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can train from other pets. We're [clears throat] able to get dive one from a crawlbat in Razer fin crawl. And for those of you who don't know, dive is kind of like the sprint or dash ability for the flying pets. And then we're able
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to learn all of our new resistances. So this is rank two to each resistance and also greater stamina at rank five and natural armor 5. And that's it for all the abilities that we know going into the level 20 to 30 journey. There may be
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some surprises along the way, so I'll let you know about those in a follow-up video. Now that we got the pet stuff out of the way, let's go ahead and talk about our talents. How do we want to
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talent our hunter? So, first I'm going to talk about a just damage spec and then I'm going to talk about one that's more built around and you're trying to solo content like solo anything that comes across your way. So, first of all,
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we're going to go five points into deadly aspect. This chance or this proc while we have aspect of the hawk active is just going to increase our damage.
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It's self-explanatory. It's super solid. We're going to pick up focused fire to increase the damage of us and our pets.
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That's exactly what we want. And then since we are leveling through the level 20 to 30 bracket and we don't have a mount, of course, pathf finding is just super nice when it comes to the open world and travel. And all the other
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options are utility, so there's no damage choice you could take. The last point before unlocking the next row is going to be improved revive pet. This is just a onehit wonder. It's really, really nice and it's going to come in
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clutch if you ever have to reummon your pet during a fight. Now, beastial swiftness increases the speed at which your pet gets in there. Of course, that's nice because it increases our DPS by getting our our pet into the fight
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quicker. We're going to pick up four points into Unleashed Fury. This is just going to increase the damage done by our pets and hawks. And finally, we will be able to pick up our summon hawk ability at level 25. I'm really excited to see
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how this one plays. I think it's going to be super strong for beast mastery because it's going to inherit all of the additional stats that we're giving to our pets through our spec tree. So, summoning two of these guys doing
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damage. I think it's going to be really strong, but we'll see. Next up, we really like crit in Forever. F forever is all about crit. So, we're going to pick up that ferocity and rank it all the way up to four, and we're sitting at
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29. So, now at level 30, this is going to be the end talent from just our levels. So, intimidation is going to make it so we can stun and crit with our pets. However, we're not done applying talents. in the legacy talent tree.
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We're going to be able to unlock five more talent points. Now, I'm not sure how easy it's going to be to be able to get that legacy tree unlocked, but this is going to be for those who have done
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it. I'll have a guide in a video guide coming up. I'll talk to you about how we can unlock this in the legacy tree. But these are going to be those points and how we're going to allocate those once
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we get them. So, we're going to go ahead and finish out unleash fury. We're going to finish out ferocity. two points are going into beastial discipline and we'll be able to pick up one point in frenzy and just really hope that our pet is
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able to get a crit. So, that's where we're at with with all the points we're going to have available to us. Again, keep an eye out for the video where I'll talk about how we can unlock those extra
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five talent points because we are going to get access to the legacy system at level I think it's 25. It's 24 or 25 we're going to be able to get access to that legacy system. So, check the description for that video. It may be
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out depending on when you're watching this. For our more solo-minded folks like myself, this is the one I'm curious about. If we do five points in endurance training, increasing the health and armor of our pets by 15%, get that
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improved aspect of the monkey for an additional the math comes out to be 7% additional dodge chance because the base level is 8% plus 6 divided by two, we got 7% shared with our pet. And then hard switching over to deflection,
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survivalist, deterrence, clever traps. And this is going to be our base level 30. But remember those legacy talents.
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Chance to hit. We're going to go up because hit chance is just such a valuable stat, especially when we're talking about fighting elites. Keep in mind, if you're ranged, you're not going to get parried. Counterattack. This is something that's available to us after
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we parry. Then increased chances for our traps to hit. We're gonna be relying on our traps a lot with this spec. Now, this is highly experimental. I don't know how well it's going to work out, but I've had this spec on my mind for
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just making you and your pet as hearty as possible. Both of you are sharing that improved aspect of the monkey. Your dodges are going to give you [ __ ] spike procs and then also your increased parry. It's going to make it so you're
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able to counterattack. Your pet tanks one, you tank the other. You can frost trap another one or freezing trap another one. I don't know. I I don't suggest running this one, but this is what I'm gonna look at at level 30 just
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to play around with trying to solo some stuff. I think there's potential here, but it could also be really bad. I don't know. I just got to try it. But that's going to do it. I have more guides in
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the description. If you're looking for more help with Forever, please extract that like button. If you want to stay tuned for more WoW content in the future, please bash the subscribe. I appreciate your time and I'll see you in
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the next one. Fire run.
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