A usefull (maybe) post

So lets say you are a level 51 hunter with a similarly leveled pet Bear, Kola. He's been at your side since level 11 and you would never THINK about letting him go, but you've noticed that he doesn't hold aggro very well any more. This bothers you, because you think the only way to get him better is to tame a different pet. The thought is pushed to the back of your mind, that is until some other hunter uses Beast Lore on Kola, then calls you a noob.

What do you do?

A. Keep Kola as is and ignore the people that call you names.
B. Abandon Kola, or stuff him in the stable, and tame a new pet.
C. Ask for help from someone else.
D. Get super mad and delete the character, moving on to play a Paladin.
E. Train your pet!

Correct answer -- E.

"Huh????" you may be asking. "How do I do that?" Well, you know back at level 10 when you had just tamed your first pet and it kept running away 'cause it was hungry? Well, in doing the quest to get Feed Pet you also get Beast Training. Most likely you have used it before, maybe training Kola growl or Great Stamina. Well, that beast training GETS MORE SKILLS when you go out and tame new animals that have higher level skills. Let me run you through this.

When you use Beast Lore on a wild beast of the tamable sort, you'll probably see something like this;

Diseased Bear
level 51 beast
100-155 damage
2427 health
Diet: meat, fruit, cheese, fungus,
bread, fish
Tamed skills claw rank 7
(note: the amounts of health/armor, plus the skill it has, are not correct. Sorry.)

See the tamed skills part? When you tame that beast, it will have said skill. If you fight with that pet for a little while, letting it USE that skill, eventually you will see something like "(your name) has learned Claw (rank 7) (or other)!" in the chat log. That means that next time you go into the Beast Training menu, you will see Claw (rank 7) as an option. Woohoo! Now you can let Smelly the bear run free, unless you like him, and go get dear old Kola out of the stables.

Now you know what to do. Use some of the training points that have been building up over the many adventures and train Claw (rank 7) to Kola. This will most likely increase his aggro by a ton. Job well done!

Note that there are more skills then just Claw. Maybe you want Kola to focus more on Growl. If thats the case, then think about getting Bite. It has a longer cooldown and does pretty good damage, plus it doesn't use all the focus that Growl depends on!

Note again that you do not have to have a bear named Kola. That's just an example of a pet a hunter might have.



Well, now that you know about training skills to your pet, maybe you want to know more about training points. (don't worry, this will be quick. Maybe. /grin)

There are two ways to get training points;
Loyalty levels,
and
Leveling up your pet.

Now, if you got your pet at a reletively low level, then near all training points will come from levels. Every level up for your pet gets him/her a few more training points. Squiggles the boar, gotten at level 5, will have ~3-4 hundred training points at level 70 if she is never trained anything. She will get very few points from Loyalty levels, as there are so many levels ahead of her.

But lets say HereThere the Warpstalker is level 70 already when you tame him. Now what??? He can't get any training points from levels! But thats where Loyalty comes in. At loyalty level 1, it's highly likely that HereThere has negative training points. This does not mean that you did something wrong! If a pet has negative training points, DON'T WORRY. This is just Blizzard's way of getting it to balance out when you get to loyalty level 6.
When HereThere increases in loyalty, you'll notice he gains ~60 training points! This is because the points he can't get from leveling, he gets from loyalty.

Get it now? SOrry if I did a terrible job of explaining.


(If you where wondering...)
Kola - Mangeclaw
Smelly - Diseased Bear
Squiggles - Bristleback Battleboar
Herethere - Blackwind Warp Chaser


Oh, but in a month or so all this will change to be talant tree's for your pet. I'll just have to post again >.<