Wolves are great raid/group pets, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them DPS pets. The only reason, I believe, for having a wolf is for the howl to give you a boost in damage. VERY nice combination with TSA for some damage dealing love. Otherwise they place about average on every other scale possible. Decent armor, but not the best. Decent hp, but not the best. Decent damage, but not the best. Definately a bad choice for someone leveling because if your pet is tanking its hard to get close enough to get the howl buff. Also, even if it does cause residual aggro to other targets, the focus cost makes it a bad choice for tanking with growl also running.

Cats have decent DPS and if you mix claw with Beastial Wrath (BM talent) you have a combination that may burn focus faster than a pyromanic in a tinder field, but will throw out insane damage. Their special ability, prowl, sucks though. Its like a rogue opening move...except pathetic. They make nice scouts and ninja pullers with the added stealth and great flag guards in AB and AV because of they can't be seen.

Scorpions oddly enough have one of the best damage sustaining abilities if your target isn't immune to poison and you want to duke it out a little. Eventually you can get a good 160 damage every 2 seconds DoT going on the target and can just sit back and let the poison WTFPWN something if you really wanted. However there is a fatal flaw with the poison that I found made it impractical for longer fights. First off, its poison and thus in end game becomes impractical with so many immunities on certain types of mobs. Secondly the focus cost will eventually out pace the focus regen and your pet may find itself without enough focus to reapply the poison and bye bye DoT. Scorpions do moderately high natural damage, have moderately good armor, but crap for hp like every other damage dealing pet.

Spiders have no special abilities as of yet so while they do high natural DPS like the other DPS pets, they don't get any consideration...yet.

Wind Serpents have a nice gimic in that they are the only pets with a ranged attack. But with a 50 focus cost to their ability they may get off one or two shots before they become useless.

Gorillas are just plain silly. The 123-142 damage to all targets in the area is definately a nice way to suck up aggro from a group and do decent damage, but the 60 second cooldown is a joke.


For a short fight DPS you want a cat using claw and bite. It'll toss out a nice amount of damage and will get some help from prowl.

For a moderate fight DPS you want a scorpid hands down. They have the best sustained damage ability for the cheapest focus and can keep it up for a nice duration.

For a long fight you have to throw out all special abilities and go for endurance. A cat with just bite will out pace a scorpid eventually due to the difficulty of getting a full stack of poisons on a target after you hit the end of focus. While both have high natural damage, the cat's ability to use bite constantly and for a lot longer makes it have better prolonged damage dealing abilities. I suppose you could use a spider for the same reasons, but they're just not as pretty or have as many perks as cats.