I have acquired a new pet. A red Outlands wind serpent. I took an excursion to Blade's Edge Mountains two days ago with my heart intent on a red Outlands raptor. I ran to the area that has the raptors and ditched my trash wolf pet I had picked up right outside of Thunder-whatever. I dropped my trap, shot it with Concussive shot and proceeded to tame a new level 65 raptor. I turned around right after the tame and saw... a level 66 red Outlands raptor -.- /abandon, /droptrap... WTF!? A red Flying serpent. I had been thinking of picking one up to see how thunder breath measures up to claw as a focus dump. They look sweet so it was an easy choice to tame it instead.
Running around Nagrand, I have noticed that the new serpent registers DPS higher than my cat. I think the magic focus dump is better. I notice a lot of mitigated yellow damage from my pet especially the first claw. I think they're glancing blows or some such. Lightning breath doesn't seem to suffer this downfall (except when fighting certain ele's, and then he doesn't even cast it because it has no affect). Well into the Outlands I head, to give it more study.
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I have been enjoying my wind serpent greatly. He stills seems to outperform a cat as far as damage, but lightning breath has one annoying feature: it's ranged. This is somewhat nice while solo'ing. Pet uses dive to get to mob highspeed and will use lightning breath, which is instant cast, once it is within range. This can be a benefit if two mobs are close. The mob will move toward the serpent as soon as it is attacked. This sometimes draws the mob far enough away that the other won't aggro. A cat goes all the way to the mob and stays there, typically aggro'ing the other mob nearby.
Where I notice the range attack becoming a problem is in an instance or after I use Intimidation. In instances, when I turn growl off, my pet has no skill that requires it to be in melee range, so it occasionally stays out at ranged distance just casting lightning breath. That has a casting cost of 50 focus so he's not attacking very often. This isn't all the time, but often enough to be annoying. After Intimidation is the real loser. If my pet, the mob and I are lined up like this:
Me-----pet-mob
and I use intimidate, the serpent paths behind the mob to ranged distance while the mob is stunned. It looks like this:
Me---------mob-----pet
Pretty easy to see that my aggro range just got a lot bigger. Yuck!
I'm still sticking by my new pet. I'm a bit tired of the standard cats that everyone seems to have. It seems that even BigRedKitty is giving wind serpents a try and has come to similar damage conclusion. His conslucions are backed by solid evidence unlike mine.
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