In a recent post, we talked about possibilities for spending your first talent points and provided some suggestions for talent builds to use as you level. Of course, that begs the question: what about pet talents? What should we do with those as we level? Unlike our own talents and builds, pets are pretty straight-forward and often the build your pet uses while you level isn’t very different from the build it will be using at the level cap. The reason for that is that, rather than three talent trees …

This is a guest post by Gildor.
Peanut butter and jelly, steak and eggs, the letters Q and U…what do these things have in common? They are best friends, much like a Hunter and his pet. Often times I think we forget how important our pets are to us Hunters. They are an extension of our body, dishing out and taking considerable damage all for our benefit. All they need in return is a little food and a proper name. I don’t know about you, but I feel naked if I …

With 3.0, leveling pets really did get much easier, which is something I finally put to the test this weekend. I’ve had Scruffer (named after my first childhood pet), or Sian-Rotam as he’s more commonly known, in my stables for quite a while sitting patiently at 60. With the release of 3.0, he was automatically leveled to 65 for me (as all newly tamed lower-level pets are automatically leveled to 5 levels below the Hunter ’s level) and waited there patiently for his chance to shine.