Ready, Set, GO!

Shoveling snow at the church, my nephew and I contribute our small portion of hard labour for the week and check out while the adults finish the horrible job we started. Our, perpetual uber noob, nephew continues to tell me the stories of how he's running Frostfell Cheer for the XP boost, as it's February and EQOA still has the Christmas event in play. In these tales of Grinches, CotHs, PLs and raids, there arises the question of how my Hunter on WoW is doing.
"Still 64, went down to 460 gold because I bought some stuff, but I can easily push that back above 500."

"Well since my friend said he is probably gonna pull another all-nighter xping, he invited my 50 Wizard to afk treants with him. Laugh if I get to like 53 over night. Hey wanna see who can level their character faster?"

"Ha, I've already won by 4 levels, highest you can get is 60 =P"

"No, I mean max level."

Naturally we accepted, fully knowing how unfair it is. All I have is my wit and pets to get me to 70 through quests and killing. He sits in front of his TV with a continuous +200% XP boost from Frostfell Cheer in a group of 60s killing 24/7 and he barely has to lift a finger.
Hey, lets make this even more unfair, since I stopped playing EQOA for WoW, I've been letting him play on my accounts and he's been using MY hard earned 60s to collect Siloth Rings and PL his own little butt as much as he wants when he comes over to visit.

If you do the math, I'm winning for now. 64/70 = 91.5% against 50/60 = 83.33%. Just another incentive to get 70 now.

The race has begun.

Pets Pets Pets.

Hunters have 3 stable slots and I'm lookin’ to fill ‘em.

Slot one, boar. He’s my tank. Nice hp and armor, charge growl and gore, there’s threat coming out the wazoo. He’s my favorite to solo with hands down, and since I haven’t done a preBC instance since ST, I’ve been solo for at least ten levels. I got my nice little Ashmane Boar from the beautiful Blasted Lands at level 49 and he’s been keeping mobs from biting me ever since. <3

Slot two, DPS. Ravager, raptor, cat or windserpent? Ahh! Such a hard choice, but I do have two to choose. Which ever one I pick now, there’s still a third space for another DPS, but before I get ahead of myself, which ones?

I have a Rip-Blade Ravager currently occupying slot 2 I tamed for gore 9 and who I’m thinking of keeping. He devastated SM as I ran a guildie through it and I liked it. Oh I wish I had taken screenies of it. Little purple cockroach set on aggressive, there were dead bodies by the truck load piling up at its tiny little feet, and I didn’t have to do a thing.

Then after SM, I moved on to ST on personal motivation, and before you ask why a 64 Hunter would run ST solo, I still had my 52 quest The Green Drake to do.

/shame

Well there were no groups to run ST while I was 52, so I had to wait till now. Love my boar to death, but I don’t think I would have been able to pull it off without the ravager. He ate those dragonkin alive and wants more.

So I think I’m gonna stick with a ravager for now

Slot three, another DPS or one that looks totally cool? Felsworn Daggermaw looks pretty cool, and I’ve played with a raptor previously, but I’ll need to gain a couple levels before I can pick one up

Cat? Frostsaber Pride Watcher, but I’d have to pick it up right about now to get it from 60 to 70 without people saying something like "your 60 pet is too low for this heroic, blah blah blah,,,"

Or how about a windserpent? Swiftwing Shredder or Cobalt Serpent. both are the same skin, however one is labeled as a caster and the other isn’t, and since they both have lightning breath 6 on tame, I haven’t a clue what the "caster" part means, and it looks as if they both "cast". I don’t know,,,

Ill put a pole up, so i can be pointed in the right direction on the third pet, and would appreciate a comment or two about the difference between a "caster" and non-caster windserpent that both cast LB 6.