Felhunter

A felhunter in World of Warcraft.

The fourth pet available to a warlock after a succubus. With the advent of The Burning Crusade, warlocks gained access to one further minion: the felguard.

The felhunter can tank similar to a voidwalker, but is better against casters.

The felhunter requires a Soul Shard to summon.

It's basically a smaller version of the fearsome fel stalker.

Background

This article contains information from the Warcraft RPG which is considered non-canon.

The most intelligent of fel stalkers are selected and trained specially to hunt spellcasters. They look much like a normal fel stalker, except for a golden band placed around one of their horns marking them as hunters. Normal fel stalkers prefer spellcasters, but fel hunters are so well trained that they ignore melee opponents entirely in favor of spellcasters, especially arcane casters. A fel hunter has the same abilities as a fel stalker. It also manifests demonic spell-like abilities - brought out due to its higher intelligence, coupled with the intense training it undergoes to become an elite spellcaster killing machine.Template:Cite

The fel hunter is often called a "fel puppy" by some players.

Abilities

The felhunter possesses four abilities, each handy in specific scenarios. Two abilities, [Devour Magic] and [Spell Lock], help in limiting the effectiveness of casters and their effects.

Its [Master Demonologist] effect is to increase magic resistance, and its [Demonic Sacrifice] effect is to increase the warlock's rate of mana regeneration.

Acquiring a Felhunter

The felhunter is a pet available to the warlock at level 30 after completing a series of quests. One of the warlock NPCs in any warlock trainer area in a major city can give the player the "Seeking Strahad" quest (although this quest isn't required, it acts as a signpost for where to begin), which directs the warlock to Ratchet to speak to another warlock named Strahad Farsan. Strahad then starts the player on the "Tome of the Cabal" quest sequence, during which he/she must find two parts of an ancient book, one of which is in Hillsbrad Foothills and the other of which is in Thousand Needles, then acquire three summoning rods in Wetlands, before returning to Ratchet, summoning and subduing the felhunter, and acquiring the new spell.

Quest Chain

•  [30] Seeking Strahad
  •  [30] Tome of the Cabal
    •  [30] Tome of the Cabal
      •  [30] Tome of the Cabal
        •  [30] The Binding

Felhunter Tips

• Take [Spell Lock] off auto-cast. If you have auto-cast on, the AI will cast this at an enemy caster as soon as possible; it won't wait until it's casting a spell, wasting the [Spell Lock] for the next 24 seconds. Until this is fixed, hit the button yourself or get a UI add-on (such as Servitude, although this mod is no longer being developed).

• Don't forget about [Devour Magic]. For one thing, it can be used on you, a party member, a nearby ally who isn't in your party, or the felhunter itself, and each time it's used it heals the felhunter. Even if it's set to expire in 1 second, a debuff can still be worth devouring for the healing.

• [Devour Magic] works just like a priest's [Dispel Magic] in terms of what it can remove.

• If a warlock has the [Dark Pact] talent, the felhunter is a great pet to have around, as it has a lot of mana and uses much less of it than the fire-happy imp. An imp set to Passive makes the best mana battery, but a felhunter makes the second best.

• The felhunter also has the second highest health (third if you include the felguard) of all four(/five) pets, making it a great candidate for Soul Link as well.

• In PvP, the felhunter is still highly useful against caster classes, but it's much less effective against melee classes. [Paranoia] assists with [Stealth] detection, but other than seeing them early (and you still have to be looking in the right direction), this pet doesn't help much against rogues. Tainted Blood is completely useless against melee classes, often melee classes will try to kill off your felhunter if you have soul link. If not, then they will most likely ignore it.

• The felhunter's Demonic Sacrifice and Master Demonologist benefits (increased mana regeneration and increased magic resistance, respectively) can be quite worthwhile in some situations, if the Warlock has those talents.

Strengths

• Useful when fighting casters, particularly those that rely on magic based buffs and debuffs, which the felhunter can devour.
• Make excellent Soul Link candidates, as they can use Devour Magic to heal the damage they take from Soul Link.
• Can off-tank reasonably well due to Tainted Blood and can offtank almost indefinitely if there is something to consistently use Devour Magic on.
• Highly resistant to magical damage which helps it tank caster mobs and resist damage in pvp situations while still being an annoying presence on the field of battle.

Weaknesses

• Very low damage output. Basic melee only.
• No taunt ability means it can only be used to off-tank a mob when there is nothing else present to draw aggro away (e.g., healers).
• Risky to use in PvP, since the only utility against melee opponents is the very limited DPS output.
• Long cooldown timer for Spell Lock.
• Spell Lock "auto-cast" functionality is suboptimal. It will auto-cast against any opponent as soon as possible without regard for whether the target is actually casting a spell (it will also Spell Lock non-casters!). Consequently, Spell Lock should be manually operated.

Felhunter Stats

Felhunters have innate magic resistance, equal to twice its masters level.

All the felhunter stats through its levels taken using a human warlock player.

Level	Strength	Agility	Stamina	Intellect	Spirit	Power	Damage	Armor
30	57	46	118	69	51	94	31 - 42	834
31	59	47	123	71	52	98	32 - 43	857
32	60	47	127	73	53	100	33 - 45	882
33	62	49	131	74	54	104	34 - 46	905
34	63	50	135	76	56	106	35 - 47	929
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38	70	55	139	?	91	120	?	?
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42	81	59	156	70	67	142	48-64	1484
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46	98	65	173	77	73	176	?	1817
47	100	66	177	78	75	180	?	1853
48	102	68	181	80	76	184	?	1888
49	104	69	186	82	78	188	?	1925
50	107	71	190	84	80	194	65-86	1959
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70	153	108	280	133	122	286	92-123	4400
Level	Strength	Agility	Stamina	Intellect	Spirit	Power	Damage	Armor

(List not complete. If you interested in updating, (as of Patch 2.0.1) all Buffs and take off all items have to be turned off, because now pets stats get bonuses from player stats. Patch 2.0.5 pets don't have Weapon Skill and Defense.)

Felhunter Trivia

• When in water, the felhunter swims similarly to a shark using its tail.

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