Project Lore: Five dudes. Four cameras. One World of Warcraft.

Posted by Dorkins on Friday, July 11th, 2008 - 58 Comments

Tags: Dorkins, group, heal, jimmy, pet

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By Trackhoof on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 9:42 am

Tell Dorkins to get over himself; keeping Jimmy’s health up is his responsibility, nobody else’s.

If he keeps whining, tell him that you simply decided healing Jimmy was a higher priority than, say, healing Dorkins…

-Trackhoof

By Bizarostormy on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 9:55 am

LESS QQ MORE PEW PEW WTB Crab Pet once you do higher raids. O___O NAME HIM MISTER PINCHY OMG

By Brad on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am

Cannot find anything and not 100% sure were to direct this.

Noticed no section on addons.

After watching your videos I wanted to know what addons each of you were using.

Thanks

By Nachoes on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 11:17 am

As a healer, I just can’t stand those whiney BM hunters. “Heal my pet!!”
Meh.

Now that my Hunter Alt’s level 66 I can understand why they QQ so much — if your pet’s dead, you lose loads of damage. And we all know, that’s what counts, right?

By Whichdoktor on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am

It’s not just a loss of dps, a BM hunter also needs his pet for big-and-red time and his stun. These 2 things alone can help tip the scale of an over-pull in the party’s favor, so heal the damn pet.

By Nigel on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

Umm l2Mend Pet and if hes getting hit call him back control your pet and he wont need heals dont expect a healer to do it noob thats why they gave us mend pet and Call pet back function!

By Rynna on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Uh, how about you just ask in the first place… Most lower healers are used to Hunters healing their own pets. I do keep an eye on them, ’cause I get the whole bonus dps whatever. I’ll heal your kitty if you ask me to, but you can bet your ass I’ll let you BOTH die if you get in my face about it.

By Saemundr on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

your pet is 35% of ur dps? that leaves 65% for you right?

sure, if ur not healing anything then the pet should get a heal, but it is ALWAYS your lowest priority.

By Lastshot on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 1:02 am

I agree with this, pets should be healed by healers more often, granted in kara, especially on the prince fight my pet soaks enough damage from aoes and infernals that graze princes hind quarters that i will end up healing his health about 8 times over, blizz gave us avoidance to help with this, but when my highest rank mend pet heals for 475 or so a tick base and each of those are hitting for 2k base then the 50% reduction doesnt help with my pets unfortuanate death, healers give a hunter a break, throw a renew/rejuv

By Jar on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

/cringe . Way to perpetuate the huntard stereotype. Your pet, you responsibility. Spec the kitty with avoidance and stamina. Use mend pet, and pull the darn thing out of combat if it is taking too much damage. Mend pet is a HOT, you may have to pull the cat back occasionally until the spell heals it enough that you can send it back. As a BM you should have improved mend pet, use it.

It’s hard enough to get in a good group as a hunter. Whining for someone else to take care of your job makes us all look bad, or worse yet, just validates the idea that all hunters are huntards.

Healer is responsible for the tank. Don’t make their job more difficult by adding your pet to the mix. Your job is easy as a BM. Do insane damage, keep pet alive, chain trap when needed, and keep the roaming mobs off of the healer.

By Lorelie on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 2:36 am

Heal the damned pets, healer arses. Or fear the wrath of our ninja loot.

By uriell on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

or you can just switch to mm at 70. after all the main tank should hold aggro and then you dont lose 35% of your dps if your pet is aoe’d to death

By Polonius on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

I agree!

The pet is similar to your weapon. You give your pet food and your bow arrows.Furthermore, Engineers who can craft repair bots are not responsible for the durability damage on your (insert crap here…) just as the healers are NOT responsible for the well-being of YOUR pet.

I have a lv 50 hunter (one of 5 alts)… if a priest/druid heals your furry friend thank ‘em, posthumously… a healers job is to 1. keep players (namely the tank) alive and 2. resurrect players who are dead if able to.

and please, if your pet dies just feign death and revive whatever your organic cudgel happens to be, that or pull it back away from the friggin’ AoE attack like every other pve running from Leotheras the Blind’s whirlwind or whatever.

And Lorelie, hunters will ninja whatever weapon they can equip even though they’ll never use it unless they make a stupid mistake. What mistake am i talking about? How about the mistake hunters make by letting ME, a rogue, slip in close.

They don’t get to swing a weapon before i cheap shot them and keep them stun locked for the rest of the skirmish. Their pet is blinded, I kidney shot ‘em, and restealth rinse repeat. Additionally, hunters fighting in melee cause my parry proc rate to SOAR. And if that Riposte icon lights up he’s gonna look worse than that molested/assaulted 8 year old on A&E cold case files. The thing is i usually don’t get to the “restealth phase” before there’s a bloody corpse with a gun or bow. People say rogues kill cloth, but on my server 80% of my honor has come from killing hunters no matter what spec I’m using.

Furthermore, if you think that’s bad you should see a hunter get raped by a warrior it’s like watching hurricane Katrina in WoW form. Also don’t talk about freezing trap here’s the solution –> trinket + sprint or stun or whatever (yes there are two pvp trinkets that can use to “trinket” out of stuns but I’m too lazy to get the 2nd one and equip it).

Please hunters are a ranged class, so please don’t do something stupid like stealing Blade of Savagery from a rogue with green dagger in ANY hand.

Also Huntards are not only stupid (def. - refusing to assimilate and use knowledge already given to them) but a hindrance. One such Huntard ninja’d my the token for my t6 shoulder, so he could vendor it, to make things worse he already had 5 pieces of Gronnstalker armor including the shoulder.

And to top all this off, In my opinion there’s nothing sweeter than killing a huntard with a final Blackflight arrow from My [Black Bow of the Betrayer] as he flees like the rogue he obviously is not.

Didn’t ninja the bow. Got it while farming Illidan for warglaives, every hunter there had both it and Bristleblitz Striker while i somehow still had an even crappier weapon. Lol, If I remember correctly i actually rolled greed and won.

In conclusion, if you hunters want to assassinate like Jet Li in the movie “War” then roll a rogue; if not then be the sniper you were meant to be.

and Yes, Huntards are a touchy subject for me. However, Leveling a hunter is easy, and so is world pvp (haven’t done BG with my alt yet). Get the melee weapon that adds the most agility and focus on your bow and arrows.

By Cloudbearer on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am

Any heals pet receive should be considered a bonus. Keeping a pet alive is a hunter’s responsibility. With mend pet, the aoe reduction skill, and improved revive pet, it’s usually not too bad to keep a pet alive or get him back in the fight quickly. It seems like BM has as much focus with pet management as trying to just shoot stuff.

The changes a bit later on once you get the T5 set bonus. I got it recently and it really, really helps.

By Dan on Friday, July 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am

mend pet, unclicky growl…

or….

get better gear and go survival

By Henk on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

I have a hunter and I agree 100%!

By Derentius on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 at 4:07 am

L70 Dwarf Hunter (Survival)
Healers not healing our pets? That’s why I’m Surv Though really I could care less if my pet (Joey, warp stalker) dies. Whenever I crit something in the face I get +10% more crit and everyone else gets bonus AP

Sometimes though I will admit…reviving can get annoying >.> So healers, throw our pet like a rejuv or swiftmend to help out our +475-a-tick mend pet

By Ultimo on Sunday, July 27th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

I’m a demo lock and i agree with this 110%. MY felguard not only is about 35% of my dps it adds about 200 +spell damage to my damage. Although he doesnt die that often anymore because people in high end raiding know this, it pissed me off to no end when my pet dies because the healer couldn’t be bothered to heal the pet with one simple heal.
At the start on an instant i usually send the healer a whisper just letting them know to heal my pet, works fine

By Arbart, holy priest Feathermoon on Saturday, August 9th, 2008 at 9:06 am

I am a healer. I see what your trying to get at, but the pets are always the last priority, as they can either be resummoned or rezzed. Quit your whining and get a tank pet.

By admiraljustin on Monday, August 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

When I heal, which is rare, since I’m typically tanking, it’s simple.

I’m not healing your pet over the tank, or the cc, or YOU.

You die, pet dies anyway. Pet dies, you still live. The pet is expendable.

By Fernando on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Your post makes sence but you contradict yourself. You say that your kitty is another party member, but yet you are counting on HIS damage to count towards YOUR dps!
So technically yes there are 6 members in the party, but if the pet is contributing to your own dps that you count on, then he’s not really the 6th member, he’s part of your dps.

I have a hunter as my main, but I dont rely on a healer to heal my pet for me. If the fight is easy and a healer happens to throw a heal his way then its great! Saves me some mana and I thank the healer because he doesnt have to heal my pet.

Healers are there to keep the TANK alive everyone else is on a lower priority, and pets are lowest priority because if the TANK dies its a wipe anyways.

YOU as the hunter are responsible for keeping YOUR pet alive! Since your beastmaster spec you should have 2 talent points on improved revive pet which allows you to get your pet back with only a 4 sec cast anyways so if he dies its not the end of the world.

Moral of the story is LEARN HOW TO PLAY UR HUNTER!

By unos on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 1:54 pm

ok, seriously you healers out there, think about it. the more a hunter has to mend pet, the less mana he has. the less mana a hunter has, the less dps he does. and anyway most hunters arent geared for mana regen, and most healers are, so you healers will get you mana back faster than the hunter. so just think about that the next time you refuse to heal a hunters pet.

By Notoria on Thursday, August 21st, 2008 at 3:53 pm

To the person who posted above me.

As a level 70 BM hunter, all I have to say is, play smart.

If the boss does massive amounts of AoE damage, the healer is going to be too busy healing the “players” to have to cater to your every whim and need.

Recall your pet so he doesnt die, mend it, and send it back in. If you run out of mana atleast you can still auto shoot. A healer running out of mana because they were too focused on healing a “6th” party member cant wand you back up to full health.

By Zentius on Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 at 7:59 am

I don’t think the problem is ‘refusing’ to heal a hunter’s pet, it’s just priority. the priority for heals goes: Tank, Healer, All DPS, pets.

Even in 5 mans, you have 3 DPS but only one tank and healer. If you lose a DPS? Eh! Got 2 backups.

So look at the bright side. At least you’re considered ‘less expendable’ than your pet.

When I take my hunter into instances and raids, I put the soloing pet away and get the instance pet, who doesn’t have growl, but has avoidance and magic resistance. I use an attack macro that links the tank’s target, and I have a recall macro that pulls that pet back pronto if he starts to get hurt.

By Vitolas on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at 7:45 am

I’m Marksman so my pet isn’t very important during raids. In PvE I only see him as my keep-the-enemy-away-bear :P. Cause i’m doing the most of the damage and have Trueshot Aura

By Fizzeled on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

As a Holydin… No, healz for petz
If the kitty on steroids HP goes low press the little pasive button…Oh the horror of those belf hunters “MY PET R TANK HEAL PET FFS!!!222 L2P NOOB HEAL HEAL PET!”


By Kushiel on Saturday, September 13th, 2008 at 12:18 am

Ok… so everyone keeps telling me.. BM ROCKS, some say for pvp some say for raiding. Okay fine your opinion. But, when some BM hunter starts talkin shit about mm and I do beast lore on his pet and find out my pet hits harder and has more armor than his, I laugh. Seriously, either some hunters don’t upgrade, or BM does really suck. I personally can’t go BM, marksmen is where its at. Silencing shot was something I never used before, until I found out what it did. So, lets say you gotta trap a caster. cause like theyre all casters or your tank is stubborn. you aggro and if no way to LOS pull you pop siliencing shot making them run at you. I find it nice. As for healing my pet, yea I appreciate it.. who wouldn’t? but if i am to busy to heal him, then thats my fault. Either way, marksmen rules in my books.

By Dprower on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

1) good 4 u dude bm rokz, any 1 who disagrees is provably wrong!

2) tho the pets health is the hunterers responibility unless u want us walking arround in heals gear ur gonna have to top the pet!

rule of thumb:
If the pet dies and….
…mend pet wus up healers fault.
…mend pet was not up hunters fault.

By Etsuyia on Saturday, September 27th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

having a hunter and priest main, both in higher end gear, I just say it depends. NO pets are not priority. But it takes 1 GCD to throw a goddamn renew on him, which will easily be enough to keep him up. If, as the healer you do not have time to take your cursor off the tank for 1 second, either you or the tank is undergeared. Pally healers admittedly have a harder time without hots but its still not that hard to throw the pet a small heal here and there.

By sebman on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at 8:31 am

im a healer and i heal pets ofc if its a choice between a player and a pet, player is always the one to choose.

By Goofball Jones on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Hey, it’s time to put down the pipe and pick up the pwn!

By Donovitch on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Ok I have a hunter and I know what it is like to have a pet, but since my first and favorite toon is a Holy paladin I can say this wholeheartedly: If I have plenty of mana, if I am not currently not healing a party member that I the healer would have to resurrect if he dies, and lastly if pallies had a HoT of any kind I would be happy to heal your pet, but as things stand unless you are ripping mobs off of me because we have a cruddy pally tank or even a decent druid or warrior tank (have both of them, and over 2-3 mobs is a bit to tank without cc) I won’t be healing your pet too much. Have your pet use cower to lower aggro if needed, disable an offensive move if needed, watch your and your pet’s aggro, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY: take off your taunt unless you are specifically asked to have your pet off-tank some trash. I know this may tick hunters off, I am sorry. I love my pet Bengal tiger Molly as much as anyone, but healing can be hard enough sometimes without someone trying to off-tank when the tank would LOVE the aggro. It is SO much easier to heal through the tank taking LUDICROUS amounts of damage than having a pet, rogue, or enhance shammy trying to play off-tank. I love healing and tanking in groups but even experienced tanks and healers can have a horrible time keeping you and your little woodland friends alive by keeping attention off of you and by the occasional heal you get. I would love to heal you or your pet if you are playing cc and get a few too many hits, but try to make it reasonable. Not every tank or healer is experienced or geared to handle the hell dps sometimes puts them through and even if they are experienced a couple dps that aren’t on the ball at the right time can make things VERY hard for everyone. Remember, tanks have to pay nasty repair bills because they are taking the hits so you don’t have to and healers are getting squished because they are healing everyone and pulling too much aggro because of it.

By Ombrenoire on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am

As a hunter myself I can give a very good reason to any a**hole cloth wearing healer out there why he or she should keep my pet up during instance or whatever runs:

My pet can easily take the agro off you should you pull some.

We all know that a decent healer can easily pull agro off a tank with a well placed heal crit.

Solution if the tank cannot gain agro back? Turn Growl back on and send pet onto mob attacking healer. Result: Healer is saved and agro is now on pet. All the more reason for the healer to now drop a few heals on the pet since, if the pet dies, the mob with revert to pummelling the healer.

My guild healers and other cloth wearers understand this of its hunters. I am my fellow guild hunters have saved the butt of more than one mage or priest on more than one occasion. I have even pulled agro off a healing shammy and pally when needed.

Simply put, the pet is the extra man advantage to the group and should at least receive one or 2 heals during a fight to free up mana for the hunter to DPS to his or her fullest.

By Betadash on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 11:22 am

Dorkins don’t listen to any of those guys! Jimmy rocks! he deserves to be healed! CATS ARE PEOPLE TO!

By Decepter on Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Yeah, coming from a BM Hunter, my pet needs the heals. Mend Pet doesn’t help when people hitting harder than 22(mend pet) …

Jimmy is cool. Kitty kat. Mines a cougar.

By Gordan, Croatia on Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 am

Well i must say i totally agree with you Dorkins, with my alt paladin i always made sure pets are topped for one reason only, above me on threat list, more likely to be gibbed before me so i have time to escape via shield/hs

By Toshi on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 9:23 am

Wow, you are ALL bad.

To the rogue QQing about hunters taking your loot, here’s a heads up, hunters don’t share token with rogues. A well played hunter can beat a rogue any day. Congratulations, now would you like some cheese with that whine?

Pets are the hunter’s responsibility. Not the healer’s. If you’re BM and you see your pet health go down, toss up a quick Mend Pet. If you’re specced into it (and if you’re a raiding BM hunter you should be) it shouldn’t cost that much mana. With the patch, regaining the mana back with Viper should be no problem at all.

I fear for all the ignorant WoW players watching this show for it perpetuates bad stereotypes.

By Thogg on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at 6:10 pm

As a Huter and a Healer it is so easy to throw a small heal on a pet to help out even an imp or Succy needs a heal once in a while really if u can heal 6 peeps in a 5 man then hang up your healing mace and go ret cause u aint gonna be able to keep 9 or 24 others up in the end game

for those healers saying that “Pets are the hunter’s responsibility. Not the healer’s.” Please tell me your guild name so i can show them what a real healer can do

Oh and Great job guys keep up the good work and Alexis dont mind all the pervs out there u do what ur doing gurl we all love it

By exio on Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 at 7:27 pm

my eyes are bleeding of all the 1337 writing here, and loss of dots and commas.

By ryan on Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 12:59 am

stop QQ i WILL not heal your pet sorry end of story wont happen you dont like it thats why they make a leave group button

By Voldenmist on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 8:58 am

I hate it when people say “MEND PET?” Those people obviously do not know how mend pet works…

Mend pet is a HOT, that means it heals so much over a certain period of time. It’s is also mainly used for solo non-elite mobs, maily since at any one time, mend pet only heals hardly a third of the pets health…and at higer lvls, hardly a sixth. So when your in an instance and my pet is playing off tank or XOMG high big red dps and tends to get that certain bosses attention…you know the one, the one who has a refreshing aggro table and hits for about 3k, yeah, that one, or maybe the one that does aoe’s constantly like a mother f**ker and it hurts my pet even though he has coward on autocast….yeah…when it matters most, Mend Pet is S***! so you know…when you have everyone topped off and you think your doing a good job as healer…then you notice the rate of that bosses health isnt going down as fast, then everyone is blaming you for the wipe…well that’s because you tend to ignore that little health bar below the “huntards” picture and let the pet die!!!

Remember…when it matters most, Mend Pet is Crap…so when it matters most…HEAL THE F&%#ING PET!!!!

By Oskar "Miggo" Anjou on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at 9:45 am

Just heal the cursed pets… THEY ARE HELPING WITH DPS…. I think im gona go make myself a hunter…

By Champloo on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Well lets be real. If your a healer, heal. Tank/dps/yourself whatever. Just heal. The better healers out there don’t make comments about “heal your own pet” or “thats not my job, i just need to keep up the tank”. They know their role and they do it well. I mend pet often, and viper to get mana back i do about 2300dps with current gear. I just think of the more dps i could do if i wouldn’t have to cut my dps buy 40%, and in turn down the mob faster and by doing so help do healer job because tank isn’t getting hit.
I mean I could on a lot more about this, but it just comes down to group makeup. If we all do our part and do it well then the group moves forward and no biggie.

Think about this:
Oh if my pet dies and i have to be in a pug with a healer that refuses to help with an “off heal” (and thats all i am asking for, if just by chance if u see the pet is low and u have the +/- 2seconds to cast a small heal) then res pet in middle of battle and then dps the mob down. Does it make sense that i do that? Dicuss—-

ps. 80 huntard -Champloo
70+ Warrior tank
70+shammy tank
noobtastic Death Knight

off subject. haste set and agi set both are great! Haste though is insane to pop rapid fire and viper to get mana back then BW/Berserk (trolls)/Trinkets I WIN

By Champloo on Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

70+shammy healer not tank

By gavin on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

i agree with champloo, a healer could at least throw a off heal for pets every once in a while,im not saying u have to think of them as the main tank in the group and divide the attention and possibly wipe but just throw a off heal if u notice them.

By SixFifty on Saturday, December 27th, 2008 at 12:12 am

As a healer, pets are low priority… sorry… Tanks->Healer(s)->DPS—->Pet.

I completely understand the dps argument, I have a demo lock and bm hunter for alts. I also understand the argument about the pet saving my clothie a** if the tank can’t reacquire aggro. However, I feel that this ability to snag aggro off of the healer with your pet is one that a lot of hunters lack.

But…
If I notice the pet is low, and I can spare the GCD and mana to toss a small heal/renew, I will. However, I feel that the hunter should not solely rely on the healer to keep his pet alive; the hunter should be using mend pet and recalling the pet if it’s taking too much damage.

As one of the other poster’s mentioned, if you ask me kindly to toss a heal to your pet, I usually will (depending on the scenario and fight facing the group/raid). If you act like Dorkins and demand I heal your pet… screw you, you and your pet will die “by accident” *OOPS*

By Križo on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

yay,that’s right Dorkins!

By Magradon on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 7:10 am

A hunter shouldn’t have to ask for a pet heal, you should just do your job and heal it. It’s all about the team work people! If our pets die, the whole group loses the dps we could be shelling out while reviving the damn pet. Sure, we can spam med pet constantly, but a quick heal would be nice.

80 BM hunter
Silvermoon

By Xplaced on Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 10:47 am

Mend pet is a DoT. It really doesn’t do much healing to the pet if it’s getting stomped hard. I agree pets should get a heal.

But! I think they are lowest priority if you have players on the verge of death. Make sure the players are healed up first, then the pet. A BM spec’d hunter will have improved Revive Pet which doesn’t take very long to get the pet back into the game. However the pet’s health will still be low after this. The best thing here is probably for the hunter to Mend Pet, then send the pet in again when its health fills.

Pets need heals too, just after the players get theirs. Simple priorities.

By Symonsays on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at 9:03 am

I have a lvl 80 holy priest , an i for one have NEVER had a problem healing pets. As mentioned before a BM hunters pet contributes a great deal to their dps. My personal formula works as follows. Greater Dps = less time mob lives, Less time mob lives= less dmg taken by tank or other players, Less dmg taken by tank or other players = less mana used healing. I do want to say that Hunters need to be aware of the fight, if the group as a whole is effected by aoe hitting mobs for example, try and keep your pet running in and out, help Mitigate the dmg he is recieving, though i want to heal him he is below you on the healing list. And i ask all of my grp to assit on Dmg mitigation, melee has to run out somtimes, or use talents(evasion etc) to help mitigate the dmg, tanks do the same(shield block, trinkets etc etc), so i ask that hunters contribute in this way as well(call pet, Mend pet). Sucess comes from a team effort, from strategy, dmg mitigation, and mana conservation, while dpsing the target as fast as possible with out exceeding ur tanks threat threshold.

By james on Sunday, February 22nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm

lol funny the same thing happons to me but most of the time my pet never needs heals he dosent get huet thats odd i know he evades everything : )

By Kenny on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 10:51 am

Healers are just getting lazy that’s all. Maybe healing hunter’s pets would benefit you when you go into a raid and have to deal with 25 people.

Most healer’s can’t handle 5 mans. Yea I said it.

By Erik on Sunday, March 8th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Hunter and pets come together; they are not separate entities. You would laugh at a Hunter who showed up to a raid without one, right? to say that you would “never” heal a pet is like saying you would only heal the left side of the tank.

That being said, of course there are priorities. A pet going down is not as bad as a tank or a healer going down, nor is it even as bad as the Hunter going down. So we completely understand (or should understand) when either the pet or the Hunter has to be sacrificed.

Lastly: yes, we have the ability to mend and/or rez the pet. And most of us do, and the rest should be kicked from whatever raid you are in. But the Hunter’s job is DPS, because that is what he is built for; and a Healer is much better at it than the Hunter ever could be. If you get attacked by a mob, we aren’t going to tell you to DPS it yourself or tank it yourself because that is our job. So heal the pets when you can, because raiding is about teamwork and smart division of labor.

By Nethya on Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm

answer: dont do beast mastery

By ummsomone on Sunday, May 10th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

lol hilarious dorkins and btw people keeping a bm’s pet up is incredibly important it dies the hunter is almost useless (not saying hunters suck i am a hunter lol) so unless you want dps to suck or at least be worst keep peoples pets healed. oh love project lore keep up the good work guys

By lucret on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm

i was a healer before 3.1 but i quit because idiot hunters were whining in me to heal theyre damned pet so i just sat down and watched the whole group of hunters die since almost evry roup i had had 3 or 4 hunters all with a acursed gorilla or a cat but there was always at least 2 hunters with a gorilla

By Tuwie on Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 10:55 am

FYI FOR HUNTARDS EVERYWHERE!!

Blizzard did give you the ability to heal your own pets, it’s unbelievable I know but if you open your spell books I assure you in there you will find a spell called Mend Pet & guess what… it mends your pet!

As someone who plays a holy priest, a warlock & a bm hunter I can tell you that other than in some kind of savage AOE I have never lost a pet in group combat nor have I yelled at a healer for not saving it when it does die, from a healing point of view, if I have a particularly imba tank that’s not taking masses of damage I may check on pets from time to time, but generally I don’t even have the pet health bars switched on in my raid frames, it takes you 1.5 sec to stop mashing your “I can’t handle more than 1 button spam” dps macro & throw your pet a heal, instead of wasting your healers mana & taking their concentration away from the tank(s) they are meant to be looking after

By Gilanor on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 at 10:25 pm

aaaaahh Dorkins, us dwarves are all the same…