Word Of Warcraft Hunter Pet Talents
Since WoTLK, pets have been given their own dedicated talent trees. But what you’ll find is that their talents are based on the pet family they are from. So you’ll only ever have access to one talent tree per pet, but it’ll make them extremely dangerous once you’ve maxed it out. This is a follow on from our hunter talent builds post from last week.
The Three Talent Tree’s are Cunning, Tenacity and Ferocity. These aren’t the same as the hunter talent trees. They are basically kill, mane and destroy. They just go about it different ways.
The Ferocity Tree is based around pure dps, and the Carrior birds, cars, Devilsaur, Hyena, Moth, raptor, tallstider and wolf pet families have access to it. This entire tree is dedicated to making your pet a well oiled killing machine.
The Tenacity tree is based around tanking abilities. The pet families that have access to it are the bear, Boar, Crab, Crocolisk, Gorilla, Scorpid, Turtle, Warp Stalker and Worm. This tree is to help your pet to be able to tank, and keep aggro alot better, so you and your group can get on with killing the monsters instead of running from them. The pets that are in this tree are generally used for solo hunters, or small groups, it allows you to stay at ranged and mow down anything that looks at you funny.
The final Tree is Cunning, It’s a Utility Tree, and the pets that have access to it are the bar, Bird of prey, Chimera, Dragonhawk, Nether Ray, Ravager, Serpent, Silithid, Spider Sporebat and Wind Serpent.This Tree sits in the middle of the other trees. It’s not really dps, and it’s not really Tanking, but it can do a little bit of both, it’s a little more of a all around tree that is a little flexible.
At the end of the day, every Hunter in the world of Warcraft should have at least one pet in their stables for each talent tree, been able to swap in and out your pets, and allow your pet’s abilities to what you are doing will be alot more flexible, and viable in the long term then just have one pet one.
For more information on hunter talents, visit our hunter talents build page.
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Hunter Talent Builds
Hunters are one of the best classes to play in the world of warcraft, they can do a little bit of everything, which makes them very flexible. However that flexibility does start going downhill when you get into your talent builds.
However with good talent selection for your hunter, you can keep most of that flexibility and still be a good all around hunter.
There are several hunter builds you can go with, WoTLK talents have expanded a little more, and have made some skills a lot easier to use, even a few have combined which have increased the value of some talents greatly.
The three talent tree’s you have on the hunter are beast mastery, marksmanship and survival. Perhaps the most popular talent tree is the beast mastery tree. Followed by a distant second by the marksmanship tree. While the survival talent tree has some good talents in it, it is mostly seen as a supportive tree, and not many people at all spec into it.
The beast mastery talent tree is the most popular by far, it’s purpose is to increase the abilities of your pet. Pets are good start with, but with the beast mastery talent tree, they can get considerably more armour and damage, along with special abilities that can make them extremely dangerous. Infact, a well spec’d beast mastery hunter can take on some group content solo, which is quite amazing on it’s own.
The marksmanship tree is very popular as well, as it increases the damage the hunter does directly. The purpose of this tree is to increase the damage a hunter does, and just make them more deadly, and it does it quite well. Most of the talents increase the damage done by the hunters weapons or special abilities, however there are some abilities that increase your stats directly like the combat experience talent, which increases both your agility and intellect. It also provided a couple of group buffs for your party when you’re grouped.
The most common combination of talent spec’s that people take are, beast mastery as primary, and marksmen as secondary. The other is marksmen as primary, and beast mastery as secondary. The reason for this is, either your pet is going out and doing most of the damage and your hunter is supplementing the damage, or your pet is holding agro long enough for you to mow down your target.
Hunters can wear chain armour after level 40, however as a hunter most of your damage is done at range, so you should be planning on keeping monsters and targets as far as away as possible. This is why the beast mastery tree is a most for most hunters, it makes sure that your pet can obtain and keep aggro while everyone else finishes off the target quickly. Combined with a great wow quest helper addon, you’ll find that leveling fast will never be an issue.
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Druid Talent Builds
Druids are one of the misunderstood classes of world of Warcraft. You’ll find there are a few druids running around, and most people won’t look twice at them. Well that is until there is a bear running at them, or a cat chasing them, then people on the pvp battle grounds flee in fear.
You’ll find there are two main builds of talents for druids in wow, They are the feral druid talent builds, and the resto talent builds, which is short for restoration talent build.
The Restoration talent build is straight forward, the entire idea of it is to make your druid into a primary healer, and it works very well. Once you have spent 15 talents into the resto tree, you’ll be into the gold so to speak, that is when all the good restro talents start becoming available. As you go further into the tree, you’ll see your healing powers growing quickly. You’ll find you’ll be able to act as the primary healer in a group by the time you hit somewhere around the 30’s.There isn’t much more you can do with a restoration build, but in the end, the idea is you stand back from the front lines, and provide healing and buffs to your group. If you keep most of your talents in the resto tree, you’ll find you’ll become a very powerful healer .
The Feral Druid builds come in two distinct versions, bear and cat, you can interchange the the forms, but what it comes down to, is bear form for tanking, and cat form for dps. However you’ll find that the bear form can still cause a lot damage and the cat form can still quite a bit of damage. If you want to look at it from another angle, the bear form is a lot like a warrior, and the cat form is alot like a rogue. In the end, which one you fire up will depend on how your group is configured and what you are hunting, or the instance you are about to run.
The one thing you need to look out for as a feral druid, is if you want to do PvP or not, the reason for this, is there are a few talents in the feral tree that aren’t good for Standard PvP, like adding in stun to your attacks, while this will be great for PvP a lot of monsters in WoW are immune to stun, so it won’t work at all.
Now, do you go Feral PvP Druid, Feral PvE druid, or Resto druid? The first thing i would suggest to you would be to get the dual talent build specialization skills, this will allot you to keep two sets of talents trained, and you can swap easily. I would recommend a resto druid build as one of your builds, as it’ll mean you’ll always be able to get a group easily. If you’re not into Battle grounds, or on a PvP server, going a more PvE build for your feral build. In the end, you need to work out if your play style is sit back and heal and help, or if you wish to rip things apart… fast.
The real fun with a druid doesn’t really start until your in your 70’s, if you want a fast way to get to your 70’s, and also afford the 1000gold needed for the dual talent specialization skill, check out our wow quest helper addon.
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