At your current skill level, I'd recommend getting a pair of bake kitsune if you don't have some already. You can handle them with a 1 slot mount (frenzies being my usual choice) and they giggle. If there's anything I like after a training session it's a hunt with giggling pets! But they are pretty decent on resists and capable hunters, and give you some fun when you aren't training. They're also a crazy pet to actually tame - I'll give you a tip, tame a gaman and get the kit to attack it while you vet and tame the kitsune. They're pretty fast and angry when they're wild, I once tamed at a gallop as one teleported after me... would be easier had I not been laughing so much. But they are fun to lead tame if you feel brave
Wyrms are great paired up with something like a nightmare, or even a kitsune if you don't mind being on foot. The Hunter's Guide page that Barry mentions above has a really great advanced search [
link]. The best way to train tactics and wrestling is to match the skill of the monster closely to your pet's skill. So you can use that search page to find creatures within the range you want and use it to find training spots for your pets. There is also the option to sort by different things too. I often sort by the gold they're carrying and that tends to help me find the toughest creature I can handle with the best loot hehe.
For hunting spots, the best idea is to do a bit of exploring as you train. As you train up a pet in dungeons you get a really good idea of what it can handle, and if you're training your pet then naturally you'll start on easier areas. As long as you start at the beginning of a dungeon or spawn area, the spawn should be easier and you can gradually go further and see how you get on. Always keep some escape route - an area or path which is free of spawn. Then you can pull your pet back with an "name stop" and "name follow" macro and safely vet it back up. Work on the outskirts of a spawn till you know exactly what you can handle.
If you're new to hunting with pets, good macros are also essential - stuff like casting invis, g.heal and cure on yourself and vetting your pets. Command macros too, set up ones that use your pet name as those seem to work better if the line of sight is awkward. If you find yourself doing anything regularly, set a macro for it
In the Enhanced Client you can also set up a repeat - eg use bandages on stored target [your pet] then a pause of 2. Set it to repeat as often as you like and that's a really handy macro to have. You don't occasionally interrupt yourself vetting with that, and if your pet is moving around you can hit that macro and focus entirely on staying close to him. Note that will interrupt itself if you use it to resurrect a pet, just use a single vet macro to rez, then the repeat one to vet the pet up to full health. You can create a similar macro in the Classic Client too.
Suit wise I have basic high resist suits and above that it's all icing on the cake. For the actual taming, it's handy to wear a bracelet of health for the health regen. I've also blessed and mini-healed myself before taming to get more HPs. You can use peace and honour to help you tame, but it's useful to be able to lead tame, and also kinda satisfying to tame a pet while it's trying really hard to kill you. All of my WWs killed me, every last one of them. Looted me too usually heh. All good pets come with a great taming adventure IMHO.
Wenchy
