Hunter Pets Guide - WoW Classic

Defense Pets - Defensive pets typically have higher health or armor and can withstand more attacks. It will generally have a slower attack speed and deal slightly less damage. Typically defense pets aren't very useful except for boars that may be used in PvP.

Offense Pets - Usually deal more damage than other pets but typically have less health or armor. Offense pets also will generally have a faster attack speed and generate more threat. A strong choice for open-world content or PvP.

General Pets - These pets are fairly sturdy and deal a moderate amount of damage. They are decent at both tankiness and DPS but are not excellent in either. General pets such as Wolves are typically best suited for raiding.

Pet Family

Pet Category

Special Ability

蝙蝠

Offense

N/A

熊

Defense

N/A

野猪

Defense

食腐鸟

General

N/A

豹

Offense

螃蟹

Defense

N/A

鳄鱼

Defense

N/A

猩猩

Defense

土狼

General

N/A

猛禽

Offense

N/A

迅猛龙

Offense

N/A

蝎子

Defense

蜘蛛

Offense

N/A

陆行鸟

Defense

N/A

Defense

Offense

General

Pet Stat Modifiers豹猛禽熊海龟甲壳护盾

Pet and Stat Modifiers Table

Health

Armor

Damage

蝙蝠

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

熊

1.08 (High)

1.05 (Medium)

0.91 (Low)

野猪

1.04 (High)

1.09 (Medium)

0.90 (Low)

食腐鸟

1.00 (Medium)

1.05 (Medium)

1.00 (Medium)

豹

0.98 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.10 (High)

螃蟹

0.96 (Low)

1.13 (High)

0.95 (Low)

鳄鱼

0.95 (Low)

1.10 (High)

1.00 (Medium)

猩猩

1.04 (High)

1.00 (Low)

1.02 (Medium)

土狼

1.00 (Medium)

1.05 (Medium)

1.00 (Medium)

猛禽

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

迅猛龙

0.95 (Low)

1.03 (Low)

1.10 (High)

蝎子

1.00 (Medium)

1.10 (High)

0.94 (Low)

蜘蛛

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

陆行鸟

1.05 (High)

1.00 (Low)

1.00 (Medium)

海龟

1.00 (Medium)

1.13 (High)

0.90 (Low)

风蛇

1.00 (Medium)

1.00 (Low)

1.07 (High)

狼

1.00 (Medium)

1.05 (Medium)

1.00 (Medium)

WoW Classic Defense Hunter Pets

熊

Health: High
Armor: Medium
DPS: Low
Diet: Bread, Cheese, Fish, Fruit, Fungus, Meat
Abilities: 撕咬, 爪击
Family Ability: None

野猪

Health: Medium-high
Armor: Medium-high
DPS: Low
Diet: Bread, Cheese, Fish, Fruit, Fungus, Meat
Abilities:撕咬, 急奔
Family Ability:

螃蟹

Health: Low
Armor: High
DPS: Medium
Diet: Bread, Fish
Abilities: 爪击
Family Ability: None

鳄鱼

Health: Low
Armor: High
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fish, Meat
Abilities: 撕咬
Family Ability: None

猩猩

Health: High
Armor: Low
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: 撕咬
Family Ability:

蝎子

Health: Medium
Armor: High
DPS: Low
Diet: Meat
Abilities: 爪击
Family Ability:

陆行鸟

Health: High
Armor: Low
DPS: Medium
Diet: Cheese, Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: 撕咬, 急奔
Family Ability: None

海龟

Health: Medium
Armor: High
DPS: Low
Diet: Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: 撕咬
Family Ability: 甲壳护盾

WoW Classic Offense Hunter Pets

蝙蝠

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Fruit, Fungus
Abilities: 撕咬,
Family Ability: 血腥尖啸

豹

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Fish, Meat
Abilities: 撕咬, 爪击, 急奔
Family Ability: 潜伏

猛禽

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Meat
Abilities: 爪击,
Family Ability: 血腥尖啸

迅猛龙

Health: Low
Armor: Medium
DPS: High
Diet: Meat
Abilities: 撕咬, 爪击
Family Ability: None

蜘蛛

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Meat
Abilities: 撕咬
Family Ability: None

风蛇

Health: Medium
Armor: Low
DPS: High
Diet: Bread, Cheese, Fish
Abilities: 撕咬,
Family ability:

WoW Classic General Hunter Pets

食腐鸟

Health: Medium
Armor: Medium
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fish, Meat
Abilities: 撕咬, 爪击,
Family Ability: 血腥尖啸

土狼

Health: Medium
Armor: Medium
DPS: Medium
Diet: Fruit, Meat
Abilities: 撕咬, 急奔
Family Ability: None

狼

Health: Medium
Armor: Medium
DPS: Medium
Diet: Meat
Abilities: 撕咬, 急奔
Family Ability:

Attack SpeedsSpell Push BackThreat GenerationTraining your Classic Hunter Pets

Classic Hunter Training Calc

Pet Abilities from Classic Trainers

低吼 Your pet taunts the target, increasing the likelihood attacks will be directed at your pet.

- Increases your pets Stamina.

- Increases your pets Armor.

- Increases Arcane resistance.

- Increases Fire resistance.

- Increases Frost resistance.

- Increases Nature resistance.

- Increases Shadow resistance.

Pet Abilities from Classic Taming野兽知识

撕咬 - Bite the enemy, dealing additional damage.

- Charge the enemy, immobilizing them for 1 sec and adding additional damage to your pets next attack.

爪击 - Claw the enemy, dealing additional damage.

- Deals no damage, but lowers your threat generation.

急奔 - Increases movement speed by 50% for 15 sec. Does not break prowling.

- Increases movement speed by 40% for 15 sec.

- Party members receive additional damage on their next physical attack.

- Breathe lightning instantly dealing nature damage.

潜伏 - Puts your pet in stealth, but slows its movement speed by 50%. Your pets next attack will deal 20% bonus damage.

蝎毒 - Inflicts nature damage, stacking up to 5 times on a target.

血腥尖啸 - Deals moderate damage and lowers the physical damage dealt by all enemies within melee range for 4 sec.

甲壳护盾 - Reduces all damage your pet takes by 50% but increases the time between your pets attacks by 43%.

- Shakes the ground dealing damage to all enemies within 8 yards.

Spending Training PointsClassic Petopia

Max Rank Pet Ability

Source

Pet Level

TP Cost

Many beasts including 血斧座狼 and 霜刃雌豹

Many beasts including 哈卡的后代 and 冬泉巨枭

血斧座狼

R5*

哈卡莱挖掘者, 阿拉瑟希斯, 哈卡的后代, 哈卡莱霜翼飞蛇

丛林猎豹, 霜刃捕食者

火尾蝎, 克里拉克, 石鞭巨钳蝎, 石鞭掠夺者

巨型天灾蝙蝠, 冬泉鸣枭

甲壳护盾 R1

克雷什, 阿库麦尔食鱼龟, 加摩拉, 阿库麦尔钳嘴龟, 钳嘴龟

安戈洛大猩猩, 尤尔查

哈卡之子Recommended Hunter Pet Families for WoW Classic Endgame ContentWolf Classic Hunter PetsCat Classic Hunter PetsWind Serpent Classic Hunter PetsBoar Classic Hunter PetsBest Hunter Pets in WoW Classic 断牙哈卡之子

Wolves from LBRS

狼 are the best PvE pet to have due to . You can get Furious Howl from any wolf, however, the ones from LBRS have the highest rank of Furious Howl that you can obtain in Phase 1 (The wolves in AV also have it, but that's not being released until a later Phase). While not required, taming these to obtain the highest rank of Furious Howl is highly recommended if you plan to raid.

断牙

Broken Tooth belongs to the 豹 family. Like most cats, he is an offense-oriented pet. His pet family ability is which helps but is nothing to scoff at. The reason Broken Tooth is unique is due to his abnormally fast attack speed. Broken Tooth has the fastest attack speed in the game clocking in at 1 attack per second (compared to that have attack speeds ranging from 1.2-2.5). Broken Tooth does not deal any additional damage compared to other cats as each of his abilities hit half as hard. Broken Tooth's insane attack speed is amazing for causing spell push back during PvP and maintains a large amount of threat while in the open world.

哈卡之子

Son of Hakkar is an offense pet. It belongs to the 风蛇 pet family and has the unique ability . Because Lightning Breath is nature damage, it ignores armor, unlike physical attacks. Aside from being a Wind Serpent, Son of Hakkar is unique because taming the Son of Hakkar is the only way to learn (Rank 6). I highly recommend taming Son of Hakkar. Of course, technically once you learn the spell, you can tame any Wind Serpent but this requires an additional stable slot!

Other References

Petopia - An excellent source for any and every Hunter pet available.

Classic WoW Wiki - An excellent source for Classic WoW info.

评论来自 Wixman1234

Lupos will probably not have shadow damage (edit: he does not, as expected). In 1.9 all pet damage was made physical and all the other fun things were removed, like the run speed of the rare raptor, and the 100 resists of the black wolf then or before. All the rare pets will be pretty much just standard pets with the exception of brokentooth and the ZG bat attack speeds, so no reason to run around like a headless chicken and farm pets. Just get what you want, like a scorpion to protect viper sting vs casters, BT or a ZG bat, and a boar and call it good. Wolf for raids 100%.

Quick afternote: The way Blizzard numbers their patches isn't the way we typically expect vs regular "numbers". e.g. patch 1.9 is the 9th update patch after 1.0, so 1.12 would be the 12th patch. Therefore 1.9 is before 1.12 (the classic patch level), even though our math teachers would cringe, yes. ;)

评论来自 batossai89

I'm only leaving this comment as an note for those struggling to find where to get there next ranks of pet abilities.
I'm not the owner of this website but I feel I should link it here, as well as give them a good shout-out to the work they've done over the years for hunters, so other hunters who read up here can use it in addition to the information/opinions here.

Petopia!

This website has a nearly complete list which pet have what abilities and which zone to find them in.

Also on Petopia has this helpful list of pets organized by attack speeds.

Also, as a side note, and this is purely personal but I've always found Carrion Birds as great dungeon/leveling/soloing pets.
They have Bite, Claw and a Sprint like Felines, but they also have the ability Screech.
Lowering the attack power of enemies can be really useful in while soloing/leveling or in dungeons where they debuff limit isn't being contested.
Screech makes your Bird, or dungeon's Tank, a lot tankier. Removing 100 attack power of all enemies around your pet should not be understated.
Remember that enemies losing attack power effects them quite a bit.

评论来自 Z146

Patch 1.3.0 patchnotes:

Fixed a bug where creatures were keeping their innate resistances after being tamed. This was unintentional and the fix will affect all existing pets.

Snarler won't have his resistances when WoW Classic (based on patch 1.12.0) is released.

评论来自 NerfedGimp

is wind serpents lighning breath damage scales with "caster" type stats? worth it in pve/pvp?

评论来自 Skult

What is the best pet to leveling? 硬壳海浪蟹 is said to be the best up to level 30. Truth?

评论来自 Vorishgo

Thanks for that guide. Really good!

Please add:
- hunter pet gain exp only if player also get it (or doing not gray, but green+ kills) It's important for those ppl, who powerlvl low-lvl pets.
- add info about stables, how many pets player can get into, what price and at what lvl.
Thank you again :)

评论来自 RykerXXX

Just wanted to ask if you would add Aspect of the Monkey as another ability to use when taming. Works wonders.

评论来自 SeeonX

What about if a pet has an ability they can start off with negative points.

评论来自 Char

I didn't have any money leveling so when I saw the harvest festival was up outside orgrimmar, I decided I would use that free food for my pet instead. This guide did mention harvest fish if your pet eats fish but the Harvest Boar food works for my meat eating pets. Not that its expensive but its one less thing to spend money on at the moment especially if your not running around with someone who can conjure food.

评论来自 JohnPombrio

Each pet needs to level their basic traits on a regular basis by either training at a pet trainer OR BY getting a trait (new or an upgrade) by temporarily using another pet with that particular level of trait.
Petopia has a list of of the available traits, what kind of pet they can be taught to, each trainable pet in the world for that particular trait and level, what upgrade trait(s) this new pet is capable of teaching, where they are located, and the level that they can be trained at:
https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/abilities.php

Note that MOST of the traits require training points! Guard these training point zealously and do not learn all the new traits you have (I skip the resistances spells myself). You can redo these training points but at a cost. The nice thing is that you GET PAID BACK the training points that you have spent for the previous traits so It may SAY 17 points but will only cost you 4. A new trait will cost what it says it will cost.Try clicking on your new trait to see if you can actually afford the new trait.

Note that it is complicated to learn these new skills for your pet! First, your hunter has to be at or above the level of the pet you wish to train for that new or upgraded trait(s). Next you must stable the pet you want to train and take your previous temporary trained pet or just grab a new temporary pet while going to get your new pet with the trait you wish to learn. Make sure to train your temporary pet so it has things like growl in case you have to fight while traveling to the area that has your desired new training pet.

Go to where Petopia says the pet you wish to get the new traits from, find one at your level, abandon your temporary pet and train your desired pet.
You DO NOT immediately "learn" that new trait say Dash level 1. You only can get this trait when you have USED this new pet for a while and the magic words "You have learned new skill Dash" appear in YELLOW in the general dialogue bar!

Now swap out the pets at the stable master. In your slingshot training window, the new trait should now appear. IF the trait is one that your pet can use AND you have the necessary points AND your pet level is high enough, you can now learn that upgraded or new trait. Note that the cost may be MUCH LOWER due to the refund of your previously learned traits for that upgraded trait so try to learn it and see if you have enough points. Now you pet can learn and use this new trait as long as the pet is AT THAT LEVEL. You pet may be at level 29 but the trait may only be learned at level 30. Check your pet level and how long to the new level in the character pane under the Pet tab.

Remember that your pet can learn many traits. They are listed in the Pet tab in your spellbook (P) screen. Some are passive so they are automatically being used. As for ACTIVE traits, only 4 can be active at any time due to limitations of the pet action bar so you may need to choose. You use active traits by dragging them into a slot on your pet action bar and the ORDER of them on the bar matters. Note that some traits you will learn cannot be used with your particular pet. Only active traits that have been ACTIVATED (with a swirl around them) AND are on your pet action bar are being used. Arrange the order of the traits from right to left to maximize their potential. On my pet cat, I have dash first, then growl, then bite, and finally claw. You can turn them "on or off' by right clicking on them so that the swirl stops (like turning off Growl when partying with a tank but make sure you turn it back on when soloing again). Once again Petopia has this full explanation but not quite as clear as I have written. Thanks to the Petopia folks for their terrific guide.

评论来自 TegoZanduba

For me, the most important thing when deciding on a pet is the sounds that it makes. If it is going to be running next to me for days and days of my life, it sure better not make weird noises occasionally, or breath to heavily.

评论来自 Vorishgo

For those trying to raise loyality of fresh tamed 60 lvl pet.
Just fight with 50+ lvl mobs when your pet is happy (green indicator) => loyality will raise to cap (Best Friend) eventually.

评论来自 Mentakh

I would like to comment on the classification of the pets in Offensive, General (Balanced) and Defensive.

I am not sure who came up with this classification, but in practice there are some inconsistencies in this article as to where some pets belong.

A more consistent Summary of Pets :

Offensive (Low Tank, High DPS) :
Cat, Raptor, Bat, Owl, Spider, Wind Serpent

Balanced (Medium Tank, Medium DPS) :
Gorilla, Tallstrider, Carrion Bird, Hyena, Wolf, Crocolisk.

Defensive (High Tank, Low DPS) :
Crab, Scorpid, Bear, Boar, Turtle.

I'll show this by example of the Gorilla:
The Gorilla is in practice not a Defensive pet but a General balanced pet like a Wolf.
Comparing the stats between a Gorilla and Wolf:

Gorilla :
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 1.04 - Armor mod : 1.00.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = High and Armor = Low, overal Defensive = Medium
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 1.02 = Medium
Tanking bias abilities : Thunderstomp AoE Damage for AoE Tanking.
Passive abilities : Same as Wolf and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.
Wolf :
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 1.00 - Armor mod : 1.05.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = Medium and Armor = Medium, overal Defensive = Medium
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 1.00 = Medium
Single DPS bias abilities : Dash.
Passive abilities : Same as Gorilla and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.

So when comparing the stats, Gorilla's are slightly higher DPS and nearly equal Defensive compared to Wolves. With the ability to AoE damage they have slight tanking advantage on multiple targets. But overall clearly a General balanced pet like the Wolf.
To put things into perspective, below a real Offensive and real Defensive pet:

Cat
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 0.98 - Armor mod : 1.00.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = Medium and Armor = Low, overal Defensive = Low
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 1.10 = High
Single DPS abilities : In addition to Bite, they have Claw and also Dash.
Passive abilities : Same as Turtle and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.
Turtle
Defensive modifiers = Health mod : 1.00 - Armor mod : 1.13.
Putting it into relative terms, Health = Medium and Armor = High, overal Defensive = High
Offensive modifiers = Damage mod : 0.90 = Low
Defensive abilities : Shell Shield
Passive abilities : Same as Cat and all other pets, there is no difference in passive abilities between pets.

Clearly the Cat is an Offensive pet with top DPS stats in addition to the DPS abilities Claw and Dash. The Tank stats are, together with the Raptor, the weakest in the game.
The Turtle is a clear Defensive pet with top Tanking stats, and the tank ability Shell Shield.

P.S. I see another inconsistency, the Boar's health is rated Medium-High while the Gorilla's health is rated High, while they have the exact same health modifier of 1.04. I give them both a rating of High health relative to the other pets. Furthermore I rate the Boar's armor High as well. To differentiate with other pets I rate the Turtle and Crab Very High in Armor and the Bear Very High in Health

评论来自 Swingo

You can get Furious Howl from any wolf, however, the ones from LBRS have the highest rank of Furious Howl that you can obtain in Phase 1 (The wolves in AV also have it, but that's not being released until a later Phase).

I can confirm that the wolves in AV do NOT have Furious Howl 4 or any other special ability besides frost resistance.

评论来自 TbeL

Dash - Increases movement speed by 50% for 15 sec. Does not break prowling.

You have used the wrong link to the Dash spell (1850). The correct one should be Dash (23099)

评论来自 GuyWithCoolName

i scrolled all the way down but couldn't find the levels for pet talents. D:

评论来自 Wyr3d

All hunter pets have active, and passive abilities they can learn. The active skills differ depending on the pet you have, while the passive abilities are the same for all pets. Please be aware that just because your pet can learn a skill, they does not mean you should teach it. With the exception of the skill Growl, these skills are taut using trainer points, which have a limited number both initially, and although the increase as your pet's loyal increases have a finite number so you will not be able to teach skill/ranks that a pet can learn

Lets take the popular cat pet as an example:

Active Skills - these are learned in the wild from pet families that have the skill available.

Offensive
Bite - Bite the enemy, causing damage. (ranks 1-8) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Claw - Claw the enemy, causing damage. (ranks 1-8) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

Utility
Cower - Cower, causing no damage but lowering your pet's threat, making the enemy less likely to attack your pet (ranks 1-6) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Dash - Increases movement speed for 15 seconds. (ranks 1-3) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Growl - Taunt the target, increasing the likelyhood the creature will focus attacks on your pet. (ranks 1-7) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Prowl (cat specific skill) - Puts your pet in stealth mode, but slows its movement speed. The first attack from stealth receives a bonus to damage. Lasts until cancelled. (ranks 1-3) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

Passive Skills - these are taught by the pet trainer in major cities.

Buffs

Growl - Taunt the target, increasing the likelyhood the creature will focus attacks on your pet. (ranks 1-7)
Great Stamina - Increases stamina. (ranks 1-10) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Natural Armour Increases armour (ranks 1-10) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

Resistances

Arcane - Increases Arcane Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Fire - Increases Fire Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Frost - Increases Frost Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Nature - Increases Nature Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.
Shadow - Increases Shadow Resistance (ranks 1-5) This skill costs increasing points at each rank.

The above skills are those availabe to a cat pet either through the pet trainer, or learned off a pet in captivity. As the pet's level increases, more skills/ranks are available and the pet can upgrade existing ones, the existing skills' cost being refunded. At level 60, the pet will have 300 to spend at max loyalty.

The has has a choice of two offensive skills, and the pet can learn both, however bare in mind that with both learned, a huge chuck of the focus pool is devoted to attacking, leaving little left over for other active skills. Of the two, bite is the better in overall performance, so this should be taken over claw if you choose one only.

Of the three utility skills, Cower is pretty much pointless as the majority of the time you will want your pet to take aggro, and in the rare occassions you do not want your pet to take aggo, you would be better off either not sending it into combat in the first place, or dismissing it entirely. Dash is good for mobility, and should always be taken if the pet family has access to it, except perhaps for Boars which have the Charge offensive skill that kinda doubles as a Dash, and although they can learn it do not really need it. Prowl is a cat family specific skill, and is situationally useful, but more of an option than a must have. It does provide a 50% damage boost on the intial attack out of stealth however.

For buffs, Growl is a free skill, and should always be taken at max possible. Without growl, your pet can easily lose aggro, so it should always be taken. The remaining two are Great Stamina, providing a flat increase to the health pool, and Natural armour, which decreased physical damage taken.

Lastly the resistances all have the same effect of decreasing the amount of damage your pet takes from that particulat school of magic.

Bite rank rank 8 = 25 points
Claw -
Growl rank 7 = 0 points

Cower -
Dash Rank 3 = 25 points
Prowl Rank 3 = 25 points

Natural Armour Rank 10 = 150 points
Great Stamina Rank 6 = 75 points

Total = 300/300

This pet would be great against melee, and reasonably well against solo casters, but poor against multiple casters due to a lack of any magic resistances.

Rank for in any school of magic provides 120 resistance in that field - however, this costs 90 points to achieve. At this point you should consider which schools of magic would be most useful to resist, and that really depends on personal preference; Fire magic is versatile, and dominent in the game, but Frost often slows the pet down. Nature is typically stackable dots, whereas shadow can incapacitate, and arcane tends to be hard hitting solo casts.

That said a better build (for leveling) might be as follows:

Bite rank rank 8 = 25 points
Claw -
Growl rank 7 = 0 points

Cower -
Dash Rank 2 = 20 points
Prowl Rank 1 = 15 points

Natural Armour Rank 7 = 75 points
Great Stamina Rank 6 = 75 points

Frost Resistance Rank 3 = 45 points
Shadow Resistance Rak 3 = 45 points

Total = 300/300

With this build there is a good chance that the pet will resist most attempts to incapacitate it, while still having relatively strong armour, and while the utilities are weaker, they are still available if needed (which is not often in leveling in any case)

评论来自 Ruisku

Once your current pet uses the ability enough times, chat will have message: "You have learned a new spell: Claw (Rank 2)." for example. No loyalty level required. Only after that your pets can learn this ability.

Hunter Pets Guide - WoW Classic

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