Bear vs Spider

Which is better I've seen the stats or the supposed stats and the automatic winner in this would be the spider however the spider doesn't have Brutal Mauling or at least not that I know of considering the bears innate ability to use this skill on its own is the Spider really better?

Does the spider have any innate abilities as well?

its rumored the spider has a small chance at psning the target even with its small possibility psning can be better

Tomato Tomato. Pets are well balanced, their DPS should be the same across.

The spider does NOT poison.

Tom-A-to, Tom-AH-to

It all depends which type of pet you want. I believe the Bear is better at tanking, while the spider has the best DPS by a little bit. I don't like pets myself, and the only good way to use them is to go all out beastmaster.

Here is a pet comparision:http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...814&highlight=

Spider starts at level 20, all the others start at level 5 and as such require time and effort to get to level 20

Yeah too bad they're balanced with each other and not with the rest of the game. Don't bother with pets unless you're roleplaying or you really have no use for an extra skill slot.

Brutal Mauling does nothing.

Its like +6% damage, that gets all rounded down to +0-2 extra damage and results into a long lasting easy interuptable attack.

Wow, your link seems to have pulled info out of it's ass without doing any tests whatsoever.

All pets have the same attack speed/damage output/armor (except the spider, which has higher damage). Brutal Mauling does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

If you want actual Pet TESTS and NUMBERS, look here: http://forums.gwonline.net/showpost....&postcount=123

Your link goes on assumptions, mine goes on tested numbers.

Of course the spider is, I used it to destroy the entire charr army once in Nolani, so that's your proof! Also they have a chance to latch onto the enemies face and cause massive amounts of damage until they shake them off.

(The last sentance in the above paragraph is un-true...... or is it??)

This is kinda off topic, and I didn't see it in any of the lists. But does anyone know if you can tame the Rouge bull just outside of Ascalon in presearing. It seems more like a pet than a monster.

why are you all shinny?

he's shinny cause the armor layers didn't load or his graphics card over heated.
And for the last time you CAN NOT tame the bull!

The Black Widow Spider (from UW) has a better armor level and I believe does higher piercing damage, although that might be a result of starting out at Lvl 20.

Yes, and it's extremely annoying, and I don't know how to fix it.

Would be amusing if you could tame the pre-searing bunny tho, tried a few times and kept getting an inelligable target.

I picked ranger as secondary for my Harry Houdine character just so I could tame the bunny and it wouldn't let me. Made me so angry... I just wanted to be a magician character. I wouldn't care if the bunny did anthing at all really just let me tame him.

Now OT: The spider is the best pet hands down.

I <3 my dune lizard:

http://files.filefront.com/stingite_.../fileinfo.html

Spider gets my vote for the coolness facotr .

I heard you could tame the rabbits in beta and they were uber. Could be bs though.