It is not intentional design to have the pets destroyed in raid encounters with very little counter play or skill involved in preventing it. Demonic Grace is directly tied to your pet being alive, and is a major part of warlocks kit.
This was an oversight, and it is incredibly lazy to leave it unaddressed. It would literally take 5 minutes to adjust the aura modifier on pet’s AOE damage taken, or adjust demonic grace to work without your pet being alive.
It’s completely unacceptable this bug has not been addressed, and no communication has been passed from the dev team about it. We saw bear druids have a similar issue for 2 phases with mangle and lacerate being on the same rune slot.
There needs to be an effort to fix obvious oversights and bugs like this. And not in a 6 month time frame, the level of QA in SOD has been pretty disgraceful for a product customers pay a subscription fee for.
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They should summon at full health at the VERY least. Losing Demonic Pact due to pet deaths should also frustrate people. Justice for our pets!
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Bumping this post. Outside of PVP instances, please bring the ability from future expansion where warlock pets take less damage. I’m not sure if this is also missing from hunter pets, but if the case, they should also get the same thing. I remember in a future expansion (tbc? wrath?) where you learned from the trainer this ability, and you brought many future expansion stuff to SoD, so this shouldn’t be hard?
Warlocks and hunters, please join us in letting the devs know!! 
Exactly I have been ignored on the subject here, on X, reddit, etc for months.
They could careless
I made a pretty decent sized post a month ago as well. The Warlock Discord has hounded them. Such a simple fix that’s being ignored, and makes warlock feel like dogwater.
Just waiting on my battle.net account deletion to go through now. 
What’s so comical about the whole situation with our pets spawning with 1/3 life is that it was a bug from one of the original wow expansion years ago that was eventually FIXED!
You would think all they had to do was go just find out what the fix was and put it out on these servers… But then again why do the simple stuff when you can just complicate matters, ignore people and piss them off. Yeah, that sounds like more fun, then you can go on podcast and talk about how toxic the forums are…