WOW Classic: Hunters and Their Pets

Here are some links with pet info.  Most appear to be older.  If you are a beginner doing the quests to get pets, use Stay to get rid of one pet or get out of aggro range of the first pet so you can tame a second.  Or get it killed.  (There doesn't seem to be a Dismiss key early on.)
https://classic.wowhead.com/spell=2641/dismiss-pet

Remember, your pet won't be able to do anything until you find a pet trainer (will be next to the hunter trainer but not all locations have pet trainers).

Use your pet to draw aggro away from you.  You can tell it to go to certain places.  Send it a slight distance away so the monster will attack it instead of you.  You can resurrect it over and over once you have a pet tamed.

You have to adapt your play style to the pet in Classic WOW.  Pets are not alike in everything but  their appearance in the original vanilla WOW.  So look at these links and pick the best pet for how you play.  Here's information about various pets and their builds.
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow-classic/hunter-dps-pets-guide

Scroll down towards the bottom for more pet build stats.
https://classic.wowhead.com/guides/classic-wow-hunter-pets

The ultimate pet site is Petopia.  Here is Petopia Classic.
https://www.wow-petopia.com/classic/

Warcraft Tavern has a list of all rare hunter pets in a database you can sort.  This appears to be for Vanilla WOW/Classic WOW.
https://www.warcrafttavern.com/hunter-pets/rare-hunter-pets/

Pet attack speeds.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061112230516/http://tkasomething.com/attackspeeds.php

How to train your pet.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070406191702/http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/articles/skills_main.shtml

Training guides.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070408070200/http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/articles/tameguide_main.shtml


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Order and Chaos Online Builds and Rotations

General Description of all four classes
http://orderchaosonline.com/classes/



Hybrid Mage Build Discussion with Stats
http://orderandchaosonline.wikia.com/wiki/Mage/Hybrid-Guide

Mage Rotations
http://orderandchaosonline.wikia.com/wiki/Mage_combat_guide



Martial Monk Stats
http://orderchaosonline.com/2013/08/martial-monk-stat-guide/



Ranger Archer Spec
http://orderchaosonline.com/2011/09/ranger-archer-spec/

Archer build video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I05bFe0EC8U



Warrior Two Handed Build (PvE/PvP)
http://orderchaosonline.com/2012/08/pve-dual-wield-build/

Warrior DPS Two Handed Build (PvE)
http://orderchaosonline.com/2012/08/warrior-pve-duel-wield-pure-dps-build/

DPS Warrior Discussion
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/628650-order-and-chaos-online/59070052


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Guild Wars 2: Weapon and Armor Stats Explained

http://www.guildwars2junkies.com/2012/08/23/guide-weapon-and-armor-stats-explained/

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The PVP Tank in Rift

How important a stat is toughness in a PVP tank?
http://www.pvpgamer.com/rift-toughness-the-tanking-stat

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Rift: Mage Gear and Stat Weighing Spreadsheet

Rift Junkies' Mage Compendium has a Mage Gear and Stat Weighing spreadsheet among the links.  Windows 7 Excel only.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/forums/showthread.php?1954-Mage-Compendium-Helpful-Links-for-Mages-Builds-Stat-Values

Click on the link and it will download.

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Rift: Mage Stat Values and Links

Rift Junkies is compiling important mage links on their website.  There are spell stat values, videos, builds, information on PvP, etc.
http://www.riftjunkies.com/forums/showthread.php?1954-Mage-Compendium-Helpful-Links-for-Mages-Builds-Stat-Values

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Rift: Attributes and Attribute Tables

Here are the main attributes and how they apply to various classes.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Attribute

Zam has started to compile a list of attributes, including the command to view them, with a description of what each attribute is and the points assigned to them.
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Rift_101-_Attributes_%28Rift%29

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Cataclysm Runes and Guild UI UPDATED

These are still in beta but it looks like this will be useful information in the future.  First, here's a video tutorial  about the runes system.
http://pwnwear.com/2010/07/24/video-tutorial-on-how-the-cataclysm-rune-system-works/

Secondly, here is the new Guild UI.
http://www.wowhead.com/blog=164291

The regular UI is getting a big upgrade, too.
http://www.wow.com/2010/08/14/cataclysm-beta-ui-getting-a-serious-upgrade/

And relics will have sockets and bonuses apparently.
http://www.wow.com/2010/08/14/cataclysm-beta-relics-changed-to-carry-stats-and-sockets/

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Learning Data Mining in Your Spare Time

If you are curious about data mining, you'll want to read Zardoz's explanation of how he is improving his data mining skills.
http://armorydatamine.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/teach-yourself-datamining-in-21-days/

In the article, Z mentions an article by Chris Lewis on predicting a toon's class by looking at their items.  Of course experienced players can do this in their own heads, but perhaps not with such accuracy.  It's an interesting read for the math folks, regardless.
http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2010/04/mining-the-world-of-warcraft-armory/

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Hunter Talents

Following in the steps of Big Red Kitty, who is concentrating on how lower level characters work in Cataclysm Alpha testing, Gar has added a section to his website that is for new players who need just the facts.  His first article is on hunter talents.  He promises to add more basic information here so if you are a new hunter, better bookmark this page.
http://huntsmanslodge.com/garsnotes-hunter-stats

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A Mage's Five Main Stats (And Why They Hate Hunters)

Larissa's guest post for Armegeddon's Coming discusses what she things are the most important stats for a mage--agility, attack power, hit rating, diplomacy and mana regeneration.
http://gnomeaggedon.net/2010/06/03/misleading-mage-posts-agility-and-attack-power-–-the-essentials-of-a-mage/

To understand the refererences to mage blogs and mage bloggers who give out misleading information, read this.  Please note that BRK didn't actually diss mage blogs, but he didnn't disagree, either.
http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/2010/06/brk-and-assault-on-mage-blogs.html

I can see it's going to be a month of mages versus hunters.

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Haste and the Enhancement Shaman

The author believes haste is the most important statistic for the high level enhancement shaman.
http://www.wow.com/2010/05/16/totem-talk-hasteybaby/

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Hunters in PvP (Basic Stats and Specs)

How the three flavors of hunters change trees when they do PvP.
http://www.wow.com/2010/04/29/scattered-shots-pvp-basic-stats-and-specs/

Hunter tricks for PvP.
http://outdps.com/2010/05/05/random-battleground-hunter-pvp-tricks/

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Cataclysm Mastery System Details UPDATED

Blizzard has announced details about the new mastery system that will change the stats of your characters forever when Cataclysm hits.  WOW Head explains it all in a few words:  "In a nut shell the mastery system will basically give you bonuses that increase damage, healing or survivability according to the amount of points spent in the tree. Along with it you will get a secondary bonus to a stat that is most desirable to you, like haste or crit. There is even a third bonus which will be completely unique to the tree and will benefit from the mastery rating on high-level gear."
http://www.wowhead.com/?blog=147803

UPDATE:  WOW Insider published some clarifications Blizzard made this evening.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/09/updates-and-clarifications-on-the-mastery-system/

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Moonkin Stat Values

An explanation of how Graylo creates the stat values needed for moonkin simulations.  He mentions Wrathcalcs and SimulationCraft.
http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-find-moonkin-stat-valuations.html

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PAWN Using WOWhead's Stat Weights (Addons)

WOWHead announces PAWN is using their stat weights now as the default.
http://www.wowhead.com/?blog=147110

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Rogues and The Agility Equivalence Points System

Shadow Panther explains the Agility Equivalance Points system for rogues and also his refinements to the system.
http://shadowpanther.net/aep.htm

Actually, if you play a rogue, you will enjoy browsing his site.
http://shadowpanther.net/

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Shadow Priest Stats Summary (Patch 3.2.2)

Our favorite zombie lover has posted a complete list of shadow priest stats on the Eviscerate.net blog including spell rotation, tree, glyphs, etc.
http://eviscerated.net/?p=211

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Discipline Priest Stats Discussion

If you are a new disc priest, this discussion of stats and how your class should apply them might be useful.
http://divineaegis.haecceity.nu/2009/10/13/l2discipline-stat/

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