For BM Hunters, do two pets share a health pool?

I’m leveling a BM hunter and I’ve been wondering how to see the health pools of both of my pets at the same time. Since I can’t find an option, I wanted to ask if pets share a health pool or if it just isn’t possible to see the health pool of each pet at the same time.

No they do not. They have separate health pools and the companion pet can die separately. If it dies it respawns after 30 seconds.

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Yeah I had my main pet die, but that second pet will keep going. It can be an issue when your main dies and you try FD to run for it cause the second will keep aggroing.

Also the reviving of the companion pet is actually some sort of “hidden cast” that cancels Feign Death if it’s active.

Companion is very buggy for a talent. It looks great having two pets, but their AI is very poorly programmed.

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Small indie company and such

Play Dead works for both of them.
But pet stealth does not.

FYI and all that.

Do you know whether pet mend and leech still acts funny with Animal Companion? Last I heard, Lazyguide was telling me that the healing gets spilt up (and therefore weaker) between the two pets.

I haven’t figured out how to show each pet’s health bars so I personally couldn’t tell you.

Artificial Dumbness?

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As far as I’m aware, the game has no support for a UI element/frame template tied directly to your Animal Companion(2nd pet). Currently, again, as far as I know, the only way to see the health of your second pet, in a unitframe-style, is to either target it, or put it as your /focus target. Perhaps you could do something in text form with a WeakAura, or similar, something that tracks the health status of your Animal Companion(unit).


For times where you don’t need your Focus frame for anything else, you can simply make a macro to easily put your second pet as your /focus target. I made this one just now to see if it works, and it does so indeed:

/target NameOfYourSecondPet/Animal Companion
/focus [@target]
/targetlasttarget

If you had no previous target, pressing this macro will simply /focus your second pet and nothing else. Just copy-paste the above into any existing macro you have, or make a new one if you so wish, and bind to any key of your choice, on your action bars.

Note: Your /focus target is cleared whenever it moves to far away from you, or if it somehow despawns – like when you mount up on a flying mount and take off, your pets disappear.