Welcome back to Pet Week, where today we’ll be talking about the Warlock’s anti magic pet, the Felhunter. Where is it best used? Where shouldn’t you use it?
Keep reading & find out!
First up – solo play. The Felhunter can be an interesting pet for solo leveling fun… mainly due to two of its abilities which make it quite a good tank, and a super good tank when facing casters or spell users of any kind.
The two abilities I’m talking about are tainted blood, which reduces the enemies attack power, and spell lock, which stops the enemy mob from casting, and locks out that spell’s school of magic for 6 seconds.
While you certainly can tank using the Felhunter, my recommendation is that you keep using the Voidwalker unless you’re facing caster mobs. I say this because while the Felhunter will dish out a little more damage than the Voidwalker, you still won’t have taunting abilities, and you’ll have to hold back a bit in your own casting to ensure the Felhunter keeps aggro.
Regardless of whether attack power is reduced by the Felhunter, you’ll still really feel melee blows wearing all that cloth armor, okay?
So with that said, the Felhunter also has a handy ability that you should also employ heavily if you’re going to use him as your tank. That abilitity is “devour magic”, and will remove any harmful spell from you, or any beneficial spell from your enemy. Again, more useful when fighting casters, as you’re more likely to take negative spell effects, and your enemy is more likely to be buffing themselves. Just remember its not an auto cast so you’ll have to use it manually!
Group PvE strategy for your Warlock’s Felhunter is very similar to my advice for solo play. The Felhunter won’t be particularly handy for your group unless you’re fighting a very magic heavy foe that the Felhunters talents are particularly useful for. Take the succubus or the imp for group PvE!
In PvP things can get quite interesting for a Felhunter user… its where your devour magic ability really comes in handy. You know those annoying yellow bubbles alliance paladins keep popping? Gulp! Your Felhunter can eat them up, leaving them wide open to some kick as DoT’s and curses from yours truly.
Or maybe you or any ally just copped a “root” spell, and need to get a flag carrier ASAP… shazam! Devour magic comes in handy again.
Of course, there’s also the fact that your spell lock ability will make you a fantastic anti mage tool in your PvP group… just find them amongst the crowd… wait for that inevitable spell, and then hit them with a spell lock and curse them! Handy stuff, good fun… and of course highly annoying for your opponent… but we’re not interested in annoying alliance players… are we? 
So, remember… Your Warlock pets are highly role-specific, and perhaps none more so than the Felhunter. He can come in very handy against casters, and he can also be a real thorn in PvP play… but for your run of the mill grinding & questing… leave him at home!
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