Best Hunter Pets for Stampede

In Mist of Pandaria, the new hunter ability Stampede summons all your active pets (5 of them including your current one) to attack your target. The main question is what is the best pets to use to maximize your damage, buffs and debuffs in PVP and PVE situations. This post will guide you on the best pets to use in your stampede arsenal, watch the screenshot below.

Best pets for Stampede to maximize your damage, buffs and debuff for hunters (Click to view larger)

You will need a list of pets as below, if you don't have them yet, you can view my previous posts about hunting and taming hunter pets.

1. Spirit Beast
2. Shale Spider
3. Serpent / Hyena
4. Corehound
5. Quilen

Firstly, you can summon one of the pets as your main one in PVE / PVP situation depending on what buff and debuff is needed in your group. Make sure the buff and debuff do not stack, you can refer to this post on Wowhead.com to have a better understanding. As for arena, if you don't have a Druid (Mark of the Wild buff), it is recommended to use Shale Spider for Web Wrap that stuns target for 3 seconds every 31.5 seconds. Moving along, by using Stampede, all of your five active pets buff and debuff benefits will be available all at once. Sounds great? Yes, right this is true.

If you refer to my screenshot above, my buff lists are Embrace of the Shale Spider, Fearless Roar, Spirit Beast Blessing and Serpent Swiftness. That means during Stampede, you and your group will be much stronger with all the buff that increases your main stats by 5%, increase critical chance by 5%, increase mastery by 3000 and 10% melee and range haste. So it's best that your team mates or raid members to use all major cooldown at this point. In raiding perspective, it might better to stack stampede with Bloodlust or Heroism.

As for my debuff lists, my target is currently having Lava Breath and Web Wrap. During stampede, your target will be stunned for 3 seconds in a Web Wrap and also gets a reduced casting speed. Although, you can argue that a raptor that provides Tear Amor is better depending on your group setup, I would say for PVP the slow casting debuff from Lava Breath is better if you are burning a healer down.

As a conclusion, I think choosing the right pets that doesn't stack the same buffs and debuffs is vital in your gameplay performance in PVP and PVE. Even though, before the Spirit Mend nerfed, some hunters are running with five spirit beasts for the massive healing during stampede, as for now, using various pet families will still benefit your hunter the most.

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