Hunter = Ultimate Puller?

[Kevin]

As a paladin I have no ranged abilities at my disposal. I therefore rely upon Ruvunal or Roane's hunters to pull in instances. I have no issues pulling aggro off either hunter but sometimes cannot pull it off their pet.
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My thought on this is does it really matter if you can't pull it off the pet as long as the pet doesn't die? Pet's regen HP really fast after the battle so if they make it through great, you used your free HP effectively.

And of course you won't get aggro off a pet if the auto abilities are turned on and cower is turned off and the pet still has focus left. Growl works quite well. It is designed to keep aggro off a hunter who is smacking things for hundreds of damage a shot with a ranged weapon that fires faster than most swords swing. Heck if the pet has focus growl and the other specials can take aggro back from a shaman using rockbiter who did a critical hit and had earthshocked, anyone who has seen how much aggro that creates should appreciate the pets ability to take aggro when you want it to.

If the hunter micro's though and manually uses the pets skills for growls and claws and bites and cowers, and bothers to learn a higher level cower from taming other creatures, the pet should be able to lose aggro fast, if you want it to. I've had to learn to do that better as a hunter. When you play solo or with just one other person you generally have no need to micro the pet at all. It's taken me time to get better at it and I'm still not good at it yet, but when I do things right the pet can lose aggro quickly. But then again does it really matter sometimes if it does? Pallies don't need aggro do to their special abilities. Hunters can heal pets without generating any real aggro as well. Warriors can still generate good rage without getting hit as well, even if it is a bit harder. Of course I still don't think a warrior needs all the aggro on him as long as the priest isn't wasting mana or generating aggro it doesn't need (flash heals). If the pet dies because you couldn't get aggro, oh well, if you hit the critter, then you get aggro when the pet goes down and then you have a little more down time while the pet gets revived by the hunter.