Proper felhunter application.

[Lockeh]

So far I've been using my felhunter very carelessly. I mostly keep him around in defense mode, and keep the devour on auto-cast. The defense mode works fine most of the times because when I get attacked I usually don't have enough time to tell the pet to attack the target, and in case he starts chasing something stupid I can always recall it. I put him on aggressive usually if I see that the opposing 2s team has only 1 or 0 players visible.

1) How do you guys handle the aggression modes of your felhunter? Do you keep him on passive the entire time and micromanage its targets?

The next point is devour. Now, I've only ever played a lock and a pally, so I only know well what those two classes can do, but I only vaguely know what the remaining classes can do. For that reason I usually let the felguard auto-devour my target hoping that he takes away the right buff. The main problem that this causes is the fact that I can never de-sheep myself (or my partner) with a macro that way because the puppy has his devour ALWAYS on cooldown. This of course means that I need to keep the devour on manual, but the problem is that I don't know what I should be devouring. This leads to the following question:

2) What do you guys always make sure to have the felhunter devour, both from yourself (and partners) and your opponents? Is there a list of buffs that HAVE to be dispelled ASAP from an opponent or can we just make one so that people can use it as devouring reference in the future?

[Rleab]

The difference between having your felhunter kited away and killed or kited away and CC'd is how well you micromanage. Devour should be used for buffs you WANT gone like priest bubble, warlock fel domination and other similar cooldown based/powerful/limited buffs. Silence I use 80% of the time on controlling heals, the remaining 10% on controlling spell based DPS or when I *know* the paladin will bubble and 10% on getting stuff off myself that I need to get rid of. He never uses the blood drop icon spell...waste of pet mana. Pet is set to passive.

I don't have a list of spells you should devour unfortunately, just an idea based on what I hate dealing with (bubbles, CC and heals).

[El Tanakh]

Originally Posted by Lockeh

2) What do you guys always make sure to have the felhunter devour, both from yourself (and partners) and your opponents? Is there a list of buffs that HAVE to be dispelled ASAP from an opponent or can we just make one so that people can use it as devouring reference in the future?

I tried to make such a list in Things a lock should be warned off in PvP. - The Warlocks Den Forums , actually completed it and then i went and deleted the final version, my mind wandered off the project after that, but even as it is you might find it useful.