04-26-2005, 03:17 PM
towelrod,Apr 25 2005, 10:58 AM Wrote:Anyway, that's a lot of rambling, but my question is this: should we use the pet as an offtank, and fight the guy that he is tanking? Or should we continue to use him as crowd control? Or will he be useless in strat/scholo/DM/etc.?
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I think what you were doing was fine. I didn't see you mention the hunter's freezing trap. Even with no talent points this is 20 secs of crowd control, which is always helpful. The hunter can also feign to get out of combat and reset the trap, getting you 40 secs of CC.
How good an off-tank a pet is depends on the pet and the hunter. I've seen a bear (named 'Bunny' of all things!) belonging to a hunter with a Beast Mastery spec off-tank one of the two adds in the last room of UBRS. The bear survived the entire fight. There are many pallies who can't do this.
-DC