A Zebra indeed sounds like an incredibly potent and dangerous DPS pet......

Nice change indeed, I thought it was 5 levels lower then your level at one point. Still, 10 levels is good too. About selecting a Pet, more then one choice is good. The main selection criterium is the Family-ability of the pet. Check here for reference: http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/skills/skills.html . Some of the Pets abilities are stun/snare effects. That means your Pet will waste focus on nondamagedealing talents which I think makes them less usefull as Raidingpets.

As far as Ive heard the following Pets are labeled as Raiding Pets:

Cat
Raptor
Devilsaur
Scorpid

and depending on the Buffs and Debuffs the Raid brings:

Wasp
Wolf
Sporebat

I dislike boring conformism however soo I'd applaud some searching for cool pets. Besides other thinks have value in a Raid too. Gorillas for instance are very valid AoE offtanks and bring the Roar of Sacrifice talent which can save a MT during a silence for instance.

This is all the pretty skins http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/browse/gallery_all.html btw.

Finally, to my knowledge the is no such thing as a Zebra Pet, luckily, because the 'My little Pony' aspect of it all would be a little too much for me to bear really.

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and where does that leave "dodo" Striders Joris?

Striders are bad (one ability is a cloud that gives targets minus hit) but they do a +10% dmg to themselves and others. So do devilsaurs. But not scorpids. I was surprised you use it, Joris

first number = extra dmg, second number is extra armour, third number is extra health
Scorpid 0 +5% +10%
Tallstrider +10% 0 +5%
DevilsaurExotic +10% 0 +5%

There still is a Bug with the scaling of Scorpid Poison stacks. If you have 5 stacks of Poison on the target, it can tick for 1500+damage per DoT with RaidBuffs. Ive shown you a WWS log of a BM Hunter with a Scorpid the other day where the Scorpid alone produces 3k dps (for laughs thread). Scorpids beat all other Pets including exotics atm.

Just yesterday Blizzard announched that they are going to nerf Hunters on the PTR (justly so). And Scorpid Poison was among the things they are going to nerf. This will probably mean that the hegemony of Scorpids is over, which is good, because I dont like them. Ive taken my Raptor out of the Stables again.

Ive read some more on EJ's and there is some speculation that Spirit Beasts and Devilsaurs may come on top for BM Hunters after the nerfs.

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- i understood that the spirit beast is not good at the moment, but very much sought for anyway :) i must admit it looks nice, but oing for it may be too much of a hassle, as they are camping for hours for it to spawn.

- i did not know the bug was the reason for you to take the scorpid. Thought you had had it for a longer period of time :) (Feels a bit like an exploit to me, that's why i will not go for the scorpid. Does not mean i have any feelings about you having one, btw)

The Scorpid was too good on the test realms the week before they released WotLK. However in the very last patch before WotLK they nerfed Cats and Scorpids and boosted Exotic Pets to some extent. However, that nerf still didnt come close to removing the superiority of Scorpids. Since the nerf was allready implemented the talk was that apparently the remaining power of Scorpids was no Bug but intended. Thats why I started taking one. Now that they're going for a second nerf its clear that Blizzard thought Scorpid Poison was still buggy on the scaling with raidbuffs part. Rightly so. Normally Im not one for jumping on bugged abilities for extra damage - heck Im SV specced - but I thought this one was to stay.

The Spirit Beast atm isn't very good indeed. But due to the nerf to Scorpids and Cats they may be worth taking over those Pets after the next patch. So it may well come out on top in a while.

As I said, Im going to run with my raptor for a while. Interested to see what Pet you'll be taking.

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I read a blue post saying that exotic pets are supposed to do more damage than normal. Hence Spirit Beast will be fixed since it now does less dmg than other cats.

Yes thats what I was refering to. Theyre going to nerf Scorpids and Cats to make other Pets (most notably the Exotics) more valid.

Here is the Blue post (bits on the mayor Hunter nerf too :) )

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13275172587&sid=1

http://elitistjerks.com/f74/t38535-upcoming_hunter_changes/

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Hey I see in the Maexxna 'Kill'-picture (which isn't really a Kill-shot because the lack of a Boss doesn't prove a kill, he may well have despawned after a reset ;) ) that you've chosen a Spirit Beast! Nice one :) Did you have to wait long to train it?

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Don't think she's trained it yet. Judging from the pulls it's making. :-)

the fact that the portal in the right of the screenie is glowing means that you killed the boss, it doesn't glow like that before you kill it.

Wisenose...

It took the entire weekend to get it....

Wisenose...

:D Guilty!

@ Hedzer: Thats the kind of dedication that makes a Pet grow on you, Im sure Kim will forget whatshisname in a whif. :)

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Guess what its called :)

Notguppie ?
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:D Guppie