WoW: FOREVER · HUNTER

Forever Pet Planner

Which pet should you level with, and how should you set up its bar? Every family is simulated tick by tick at your level and gear: focus, autocast, talents, your shots and their mana, how hard mobs hit the pet, and the time you spend resting. The answer is XP an hour (kills an hour at 60), with the reasons beside it.

Set your level, gear and how you play in the settings.
Read the pick and why. Ties go to the pet that eats what you loot.
Click any family for its best pet-bar order and one fight, second by second.

Settings

You

Hunter and pet level

Your gear

Your physical DPS × the quest-gear estimate for the level.

Faction

Race

Orc: Command, +5% pet damage. Human: +1% crit, +10% Spirit (2 November racials). Other races: no racial counted. Faction decides which beasts count as tameable on your side. Beast Mastery talents for the level (Unleashed Fury, Ferocity, Frenzy, Bestial Wrath…)

Your pet

Happiness

Ranks

Attack speed Damage is normalised; speed only changes Frenzy procs (35+).

The mobs

Mob level vs yours

Find the best mob level for each pet (most XP an hour)

Mob health × a normal mob of its level (elites ~2-3×).

Mob armour

Grinding

Mobs per pull, all on the pet You kill them one at a time; the others hit the pet meanwhile.

Walking to the next pull Seconds. 5 is a dense camp, 15+ spread-out mobs. Resting is worked out on top.

Looting per mob

Taming for abilities Your pet's abilities come from the beast you keep and from beasts you tame to learn more. With a limit, the planner picks the pet to keep and which tames are worth it.

Well Fed XP food (+5% kill XP)

Mob damage × a normal mob of its level (Forever's creature DPS table).

Damage ranking Time to kill from the mob's health and each pet's damage

Time to kill a mob Seconds every fight lasts, the same for every pet. Short fights with long gaps reward pets that spend their focus in bursts: the gap refills it.

Time between fights Focus refills and cooldowns tick; Dust Cloud and bleeds reset per mob. A bleed, poison or Serpent Sting only deals the ticks that land before its mob dies.

Growl on autocast, first on the bar (15 focus every 5 s; holds threat against your shots)

Enemies in reach For Swipe and Thunderstomp: how many enemies they hit.

Melee near Furious Howl

Group's physical damage Others hitting the same target, in multiples of your damage. Dust Cloud helps it too.

Assumptions unverified

Nobody has measured these in Forever yet. Each starts at our best guess; move it if you know better.

Pet health regen out of combat % of the pet's health a second.

Why %?

No one has timed a Forever pet's health coming back. The one lead is a hunter speedrunner recalling that Classic pets got about a third of their health back a few seconds after a fight, while saying he doesn't know whether Forever works the same. % a second is a middle reading of that, the same for every family. Classic's server code gives pets a regen based on Spirit, but nobody knows a Forever pet's Spirit.

How much it matters: with Mend Pet it moves kills an hour by up to about 10% at low level and barely at all from 40; at 0.5% you lose 5-12%. Without Mend Pet it matters much more: at 0.5% you lose about 15% of kills at 60 and more than half at 16. Spirit Bond's healing (1% every 10 s at rank 1, every 5 s at rank 2, in the game files) is separate and not counted.

Happiness boosts Nature abilities Decides Wind Serpent (Lightning Breath).

Why off?

Classic's server code applies happiness to physical damage only, so off is the Classic behaviour. The wiki and the wowsims simulator apply it to all of a pet's damage. Nobody has tested Forever. Turn it on to see Wind Serpent with it.

Bleeds ignore armour Savage Rend and Tendon Rip.

Why yes?

In Classic, damage over time ignores armour even when it's physical. Untested in Forever.