The main differences were that I didn’t go to Elwynn. Saves me doing exactly the same post tomorrow! I literally just logged out in Ironforge (so as my bear wouldn’t get hungry and start moping) to take a break and see what was new in blogland and your post was the first thing i saw. That’s almost a step-by-step write up of how i spent the last three hours. I ran around and killed some mobs with him, which got both of us a level. Fortunately I remember to set it at the inn there. Pet tamed, then fed until he was happy, I used my hearthstone to get back to Ironforge. I was nearly level 11 at that point, so wanted a pet that wasn’t too far behind. Level is kind of important, both for what skills they can learn and because your pets level up independently of you, capped only by your own level. I was able to tame a nice level 9 specimen. So I took the tram from Ironforge to Stormwind then ran down the hill to find a bear. And the bears in Elwyn Forest come with a rank 2 version of the Claw skill, which other bears don’t get until later. I had forgotten they were pretty omnivorous, which is handy since you have to keep pets fed to keep them happy. Some of it I knew, like the fact that bears are good tanks. That brought me back up to speed on bears as pets. I just knew I did that back in the day for a reason, and my hunter on WoW live still has that pet from way back in the day, even though any advantage has long since been ironed out by changes to the game.įortunately Petopia, the long standing hunter pet reference site, had opened up a Petopia Classic page for those of us playing WoW Classic. There was a reason to get that particular bear, but I couldn’t recall why. My gut said I should get a bear, and not just any bear, but a bear from Elwyn Forest in the human starter area. I had to sell a couple of those stacks of light leather to load up on everything.Īnd then it was time to go out and find a pet of my own. You also get some of the follow-on skills, like pet feeding, dismissing, calling, and reviving. Then the next step is to run up to Ironforge and find the pet trainer… the trainer with skills for your pets. And while the auction house was saturated with light leather (and we’re all too poor to buy anything still anyway) I was quite active in skinning everything I could find, so those stacks of light leather could be sold to a vendor for 3 silver each if I was short of coin.Īfter the three runs, you are given the ability to tame a pet of your own, as the three each disappear as you finish up each quest.
I had picked up skinning and leather working with Tistann. You have to spend ten minutes with them, which I used to go hunt some more skinnable animals. I finally got my axe upgraded hitting them. I had already done the Operation Recombobulation quest there… another one of those quests you might miss if you don’t wander in the right building… but leper gnomes were good exp and drop coins, cloth, and the occasional green quality item. I was out in grinding that last bit of experience by taking down leper gnomes past Brewnall Village, itself a quest destination. So I was in a bit of a hurry to get to level 10 with Tistann so he could get a pet going.
Three gun upgrades, but no melee, and without a pet every encounter gets resolved at knife range… or axe range, as the case may be. The hunter was probably the most distinctive class of early WoW strange, complicated, and always pressed for inventory space, both because hunters lose a bag slot to hold ammo and because you have to carry food for your pet.īut a hunter without a pet is practically no hunter at all… and all the more so where your still running around with the 1 dps newbie hand axe because you haven’t gotten a fortunate drop yet. The exception so far has been with my hunter. This was the era of random quest givers stuck in the middle of nowhere. And wandering every side path has already paid off.
As tends to be my approach, I want to cover a lot of ground without wearing myself out. I am in no hurry to get through things in WoW Classic.
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