I have a Cat that I stalked in Winterspring many moons before TBC ever came out. He is not much unlike BRK's kitty Hobbes from Winterspring but his coloring is different and he was a pain in the butt to get. I am talking about the elusive Rak'Shiri or if you were really lucky and some Hordies were in Winterspring doing a quest you may have had a chance to have tamed Shy-Rotam as well. But I named him 'Frostbite' after camping up there for 3 weeks straight, because that is what my character would have had all over his body.
Now if that was not bad enough fast forward a few months (more like 10) and TBC comes out. I start to level him with my other Cat who I have had since both him and I were level 10 together. I named him Fenrir he was a lowly Feral Nightsaber but I didn't care I have a pet now, and yes before I get posts about it I do realize Fenrir was a Wolf in mythology. But honestly when I went to name him that is what popped into my mind. Later on when I came across a pack of wolves I tamed one and tried to name it Fenrir as well but it just didn't feel the same. So I just stuck with my Cat. Frostbite was a bit annoying at times, always with his roaring and shaking of his head and such, always wanting to be fed to stay happy. But I stuck with him and he stuck with me and eventually we became best friends.
But he just was not up to snuff like Fenrir was. This is before Blizz in their infinite wisdom decided to normalize all pets to 2.0 Attack Speed. Fenrir used to be a 1.3 attack speed were as Frostbite was 1.5. I liked having a fast attack cat and I started to level Fenrir exclusivly and now both of us are level 70 now.
I said all of that to say this and to kind of get to my main point of this post. Frostbite when I stabled him was only level 61. After some debate I have since stabled Fenrir to give him a much needed rest and took out Frostbite. But I failed to take into consideration I am running around with mostly Kara purples and a wicked awesome set of crafted boots. I rip aggro off him like he were only a paper doll in front of the mob. I even tried to Misdirect to him and I still managed to rip aggro. Plus I am not really going to go to all the trouble of feigning death to wipe my aggro on just regular trash around Outlands. There is no way in hell I would even consider the notion of taking him into Kara or any raid in Outlands for that matter. That is just crazy talk. But that is the annoying part of not leveling your stabled pets along with your main up at the same time. I will get him to 70 I swear it. It will just take till the new expansion comes out. Just kidding on that. But seriously never neglect your pets, they may just come up form behind and bite you in the ass.
I guess this is a good place as any to stop. More later.
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I can feel your pain Fathgar. However, it was more of, why-the-hell-didn't-I-get-that-boar-at -level-27?" I tried to go back and get one, because I wanted a 'tanking' pet, but he only lasted until 28. I couldn't do it. Couldn't handle having all those mobs wanting a piece of me, with poor Chester tried to bump his nose on their backs.
I agree with you that pet's level should not be neglected. Also, not thinking about your pet choices early can really affect you later. /sigh, Why can't we have more stable slots?
Stay strong, I am sure you will get him there!
You might want to downtune your DPS by using lower ammo and maybe a green gun while leveling the pet.
I have found out that it need not be honor hold or adamantite shells or cenarion arrows for grinding purposes. You can easily cut 5% of your DPS without really compromising other stats like AP ( =pet AP ) or armor. leaving the quiver at home might also give him a 15% bigger chance of holding aggro against you.
I have downtuned my ammo for grinding after respeccing SV and receiving a significantly weaker pet in return.
I never even thought of that. Thanks for the tip xizang.
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