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[Pet] Tanking for heroics?
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Post by
Ghouls
I know alone pets always tank for the Hunter. How much of chance would a Heroic group stand if a level 80
Spirit Beast
was the tank while the Hunter used
Mend Pet
and the 3 DPS' were Mages and the Healer was a Priest. But they would stop to heal and restore mana after every mob. I bet this would help the Theorycraft collection we have so can someone give me a percentage?
Post by
hashmel
A percentage of what? How @#$%ed people would be waiting around on a stupid pet to get aggro? How much longer a run would take with a pet as apposed to an actual tank? Or the percentage of people who'll kick a hunter that queued as a tank?
Pets suck as tanks for anything but the hunter soloing when they can feign leaving the pet as the only remaining target on the threat list, simple as that.
Also, if the group has a healer why should the hunter also heal instead of dps? Bring 1/8 of a tank and 1 and 1/4 healers and expect to come out ahead?
Don't fix what's not broken.
edit: Also, A bear, crocolisk, sporebat, or turtle would make a much better pet tank than a spirit beast; they'd all suck compared to a real tank but they'd be better than a spirit beast.
Post by
Murrdurr
can be done, but with a spirit beast? hell no.
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Post by
Kailhun
http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/guides/
right column of guide list at the bottom: Pet Tanking (Heroics) Guides
and
http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/2010/02/single-target-tps-pet-tanking/
In answer to your question: it depends on the skill of the hunter. If it's a hunter with a lot of pettanking experience the chance would probably be pretty good.
BTW Hunters can only queue as DPS.
Post by
catlady
Make sure to make your pet crit immune from resil. Disc priests (with damage mitigation skills) and holy pallies (40% increased pet healing+beacon+glyph of holy light) work very well.
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Post by
Asylu
Crabs also make good tank pets, Pin generates a lot of aggro to start. But I would say that unless you have no choice (and with the new dungeon system that is slim) leave the tanking to the plate-wearing meat-shields.....But my crab's name isn't Backuptank for nothing. xD
Post by
Zurgan
Well wouldnt think off using pet as my groups tank in HC. Even tho LFD takes for ages and we might get the choice to choose tank.
However the pet works great with a fairly good healer to tank event bosses. Tried it a few times now on the Tough LOve encounter and it works good. i have used my ordinary raid pet (wolf) and only problem has been to get the group used to a pet as tank.
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