Gratz! You tamed that rare pet and have major ‘pimp’ or brag rights. Or it may just be high on the LCF (look cool factor) scale. However, it turns out to be completely useless for questing or dungeons because it is so much lower than the mobs it cannot generate enough threat, the growls bounce off and are resisted, and your damage overpowers the pet’s damage drawing the mob straight to you (and recall the pet cannot growl it back off you).
What to do?
Beartracker visited the site three times to find the Ghost Saber and tame it. As a level 19 pet, it was in poor shape to hold up very long against the level 29+ mobs I was questing against. With just Ghost and I out there, aggro was all mine. So to fix this, I resorted to an old practice and I recommend it to you if you are trying to level up a lowbie pet.
Go do instances with the pet on passive.
Now the tank is handling aggro and you even have a healer in case the pet demands more heals than you can shower. I ran Gnomer and Ghost went in at level 20 and came out level 29. In the beginning, all he did was soak up xp. By the end, he was DPSing hard! It will take but a fraction of the time to get him up levels because you are not slowed down by having to tank and DPS the mobs yourself while your pet basically does nada.
