Hunter pets have always been an issue in arena, especially when it comes to survivability. A big reason for their lack of survivability is no resilience, but we might see that changed in wotlk.

“The burst issue is one worth more discussion. We have hesitated giving resilience to pets because to some extent we do want them to be killable. When you’re the other team all ganging up to kill a pet while enduring tons of damage from the hunter, it can feel like a long time, and then the hunter just turns around and brings the pet back.One thing we’re not crazy about is the pet-as-guided-missile strategy that some hunters seem to employ (send your pet in, then ignore it the rest of the fight.) You should want to heal your pet and otherwise try to keep it alive and not just use it as a delaying tactic.

Now I’m not saying pets are already too tough, just that we don’t want to get them that way, which is why we haven’t gone the resilience route yet. But I would be interested in hearing more discussion about how much more health a pet would need to feel like they weren’t getting one-shotted. Alternately, maybe talents that affected chance to be crit (or granted something on being crit) would be more appropriate. If in the end you think resilience is the only thing that will keep the pet alive, let us know that too. “-Ghostcrawler
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It will be very interesting to see what blizzard decides to do as far as pet survivability in arena, especially after all of these new pet talents. Hunters should have a bright future in the arena scene just from what we have seen so far with new abilities and talents for wotlk. But if they decide to give resilience to pets, the reaction from both hunters and non-hunters will be something to follow.

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