Meet The Stable

Omnomnom
AKA That Damned Pet
I love this pet.  Most of my guild loves this pet.  Cranky Tank?  …hates this pet, SO VERY MUCH.  It’s awesome.    HAI I AM A DINOSAUR I AM GETTING IN YOUR WAY STOMP STOMP LOL.

Softpaw
AKA Moonfire!Cat / Not Loque
I find Gondria the first day I look.  Loque?  Never.  Sigh.

Schneeflocke
AKA SCHNEEEEEEEE
The second pet Jamethera ever tamed and the one to carry her from level 14 to level 70.  I love this cat to pieces, but I also can’t bear to surrender the awesome that is Omnomnom.

Cúchulainn
AKA How The Fuck Do You Say That?
I tamed him because…wolves are (were?) technically the highest DPS.  But…he’s a wolf.  Meh.  I almost never bring him out of the stable-I might release him someday to make room for another spirit beast (the empty stable slot is saved for He Who I Shall Probably Never Tame).

Baby BM Hunter: 1-10

The first 10 levels are, by far, the worst of them.  I mean you don’t even have a pet or talent points until the very end!

For the most part these levels consist of shooting things from max range, applying serpent sting once you’ve got it, and raptor striking mobs in the face when they get into melee range.

At 10, you get the quest that sends you out to tame 3 different things before you learn to tame pets yourself.   Now I distinctly recall that for night elves this involved a wee bit of running around the zone-but for Tauren they’re all like, across the river. 

Damn moocows.  Anyway.  So you do that quest, run to the city to complete the second part of that quest, and then go tame your first pet.   If you’re me, you chuckle to yourself and go find a pink flamingo.

I’ve done most of my hunter leveling with a DPS pet, and I reccomend this.  Tanking pets can be useful for some situations, and it may be easier these days to keep two pets at your level-but I still reccomend just sticking with one.  I solo’d many an elite thing with a cat. 

My poor moocow was very poor until I sold some Malachite on the AH-now she has a comfortable 2g in her bags, and I can do a few important things like…train weapons so she can use her heirlooms, and pick up less-fail gear, and oh, PROFESSIONS!

Meet Hunter #5

My second 60 was a hunter.   The fact that I even had two 60s in vanilla was nothing short of amazing, considering how long it took me to level (a year!).  That hunter, however…was not my first one.  On January 25th, 2005, I rolled my very first hunter: a Tauren named Wayreth.

To this day, she is level 26.  She will…probably always been level 26.  But I’ve always harbored a not-so-secret love for Tauren, as well as for hunters, so a couple of nights ago I rolled a baby moocow hunter.

“But Amber…you already have a hunter.  Er…you have several.”

Yes…but.  But.  Playing Jamethera right now requires an investment in time and focus that I just can’t make.  All that she needs come from heroics or raids, and I can’t often heroic or raid with her due to IRL constraints.  I have 3 raid nights I can make-for two of those, I need to be on my priest.  For the third, they need my paladin.  It’s very hard to hunter blog when not PLAYING a hunter, and my other baby hunters are scattered across old servers, hither and yon…

…so, meet Endingfire.

First Misadventure of the Baby Hunter: having the BoA bow, but not enough silver to train for it.  D’oh!

So How’s That BM DPS?

We threw together a ToC25, and it happened to be Jamethera’s first non-VoA 25.  I was thrilled with how well I did!  This screenie was for a particular boss fight (Jaraxxus?), but even on the overall meters I finished a solid 4.9k despite being on orb duty for Anub.  Don’t let anyone tell you that BM isn’t a viable spec for raiding, because they’re full of shit. 

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Because some of us just won’t give it up.

Beast Mastery Hunter since 2005