Happiness
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A Hunter's pet has a happiness rating, also sometimes known as mood. A happy pet will gain Loyalty and fight harder. An unhappy pet will lose Loyalty and fight less hard.
Keeping your pet happy is something a Hunter Should always keep in mind.
Happiness and loyalty affect only hunters' pets. Warlock pets are unaffected.
Happiness levels
The happiness of a pet is shown beside the pet's portrait and in his pet paper doll as a small smiley face icon. This icon shows the states of happiness your pet goes through:
Happy (Green big smiley face) - Your pet is perfectly happy with you and the world. In this state, your pet will do 125% of their normal damage to the mob during a fight. In this state your pet gains loyalty to you over time.
Content (Yellow smiley face) - Your pet is contented but not really happy. It's worth feeding your pet at this stage to get it back to the Happy state above. You will only receive 100% damage at this stage. In this state your pet gains loyalty to you over time, but not as fast as when it is happy.
Unhappy (Red frowning face) - Your pet is unhappy and will only do 75% damage during fights. You should immediately feed your pet to prevent possible abandonment. In this state your pet loses loyalty to you over time.
Each level spans about 350 happiness points. So if your pet just went from Happy to Content, it will require food for 350 happiness to get it to maximum happiness.
Gaining Happiness
The only way to increase the happiness of you pet is by feeding it. One feeding will give the pet 10 bites of food, distributed over 20 seconds. Depending on the quality of the food, each bite will give 8, 17 or 35 happiness, for a total of 80, 170 or 350 per feeding. You can follow the gain in happiness in the Combat log.
If your pet attacks or is attacked during the feed period, the feeding is interrupted.
Losing Happiness
Things that make a pet lose happiness are:
- Just standing around
- Your pet will lose happiness at a steady rate over time. At loyalty level 6 it will lose about 500 happiness per hour, or 50 happiness in 6 minutes. At lower loyalty levels it will lose happiness faster. For instance, at loyalty level 2 (Unruly) it will lose about 1000 happiness per hour, or 50 happiness in 3 minutes.
- Dismiss Pet
- This action makes the pet lose 50 happiness.
- Dying
- It has been reported that the death of a pet loses it 350 happiness.
- Abandon
- When you go out of range of your pet (either while it is in combat or you made it Stay) and it disappears, it loses 10 happiness. This is usually done when the pet is not needed for a long time, because it would lose more than 10 happiness by just staying around.
- Not helping
- There are suggestions that letting a pet kill a mob on it's own while not helping it will lose the pet happiness.
Mounting up will make your pet disappear, but it will not make it lose any happiness. Neither will it lose happiness while you are mounted.
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