Pet survivability is an issue

Classes Hunter
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Hello hunters, I come to you from the beta with harrowing news

Pets in shadowlands are extremely squishy, I mean it feels like they are made of paper.
Granted we can heal our pets for fairly decent amounts the damage that they can take seems really low

They will die from 2 mobs getting pulled back to back in the maw, I’ve had to pop our class heal in a pinch to save my pet a few times whilst killing elites even whilst our pet heal is running

This is also on a ilvl 200 hunter, not a fresh one.
They seem extremely glassy currently and I don’t know if this is intended or not but it’s a real pain

Pay lots of attention to your pets HP team, it’s been pretty fire and forget up until now but pets are really taking a pounding

Also in PvP this is disgusting, it’s never been easier to kill a hunter pet and it’s extremely punishing

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What are you talking about? I played the beta and my pet only ever died to pulling more than 3 elites at once. Normal mobs I could pull more than 5 easily, but with cleave capped at 5 there was no reason to do so.

You must be using the wrong pet or something. You do know ferocity pets tank the best because they get leech, right?

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Might be a survival hunter pet issue but my pet was getting crunched

And yeah I was using ferocity but it was still getting mauled

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That could be the case. BM pets were still super tanky as usual.

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Nah, Survival here - pets seem fine. Stop trying to solo world bosses. ;-p

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I doubt I’m the only one having these issues and I’m talking about at 60 as well

Right now they are fine but mine was getting pasted at max level

I’m not being crazy too my pet was dying a lot more than it has been ever

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They are definitely squishy. PVP especially
Would love to see a bulk increase considering they doubled the res time

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For BM or survival?

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Both, passive cleave destroys them in most pvp situations, a windwalker can chunk 40% of it’s hp with one rising sun kick, then once your pet is dead good luck getting it back against a competent team

Have had many times in bgs where demon hunters and dks aren’t even targetting the pet but it dies through mend pet to all the aoe going on, unlike bfa

Not asking for 'em to be invincible of course, but with the longer pet res making them squisher seems uncalled for

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Yeah it’s a huge issue in pvp right now, a lot of stuff cleaves and the damn pets just get smacked out

I swear we’ve been harping on about this on the beta forums for ages with no response

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Add that to a longer pet rez and yeah.
Our pet is part of our arsenal. They pull this crap and every other class/spec needs to have their weapon ripped out of their hands and have to waste four seconds picking it back up.
This crap is the main reason I switched to MM so I dont need a flipping pet.

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This issue destroys survival and bm in competitive pvp. Seriously needs addressed.

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