We have been inspired, fueled by nostalgic memories of time spent with our first 'true' pet, Humar the Pridelord. BRR has fond recollections of how we obtained him... Over the bodies of many would be alliance poachers in the barrens.Pre-BC 25-60 he was our leveling and killing companion, many an gnome has been shredded under his claws. Alas he sits at 60 in our stables displaced the moment BRR reached 61 and tamed his first ravager. This is unfair to our still loyal black lion.
Spike shall trade out places for a few hours every week while we train Humar to lvl 70, He is a magnificent beast and deserves to have a share of the alliance killing. Not to mention a view of the Outlands beyond Hellfire Peninsula.
Which bring us to the issue, pet leveling. Unlike warlocks who summon demons that are always their level and always happy, hunters must put a lot more work into their pets. The leveling system for pets at the moment seems rather restrictive. To level a pet you must kill a mob that is green to you, regardless of the level of your pet. This means if you were to go pick up a unique level 30 pet at 70 the only way to get him XP is to kill level 62 or higher mobs. As you can imagine grinding out 1000's of mobs worth of XP with a level 30 pet on 62 or greater mobs would not be fun. Pets do not benefit from bonus XP, however they do have smaller amount of XP to gain per level. At level 60 a hunter will need 494000XP to level, a pet on the other hand only 145000 xp. Blizzard has not indicated any plans to alleviate this problem as yet but we may hold out hope.
- BRR
2 comments:
Leveling a low level pet to 60 is not really all that bad, it's the grind from 60 to 70 that takes a while. Besides the fact that pets need much less exp per level before 60 they also get a bonus based on the difference between your level and theirs. I haven't tried leveling a pet much more than 10 levels below me, but I can tell you that at 10 levels difference, the pet gains approximately twice as much exp per kill as a pet one level below you.
Ha Ha...
you think thats bad, i got Humar at lvl 70, camped out by the tree and woke up at around 3:30 am. Got him and lvld him to 70. It was tough but well worth it. I hated the though of having a striped tiger like all the other Night Elves do.
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