Pet survivability

Good morning! it seems recently that pet survivability has taken a massive nose dive. pets are getting absolutely chunked by environmental hazards (lava) to just groups of enemies (more than two) and its unusually more difficult to keep a pet up if doing an open world mass pull.
has anyone else noticed this or anything similar?

Not really anything different. I’ve always used mend pet in my rotations and defensive granted by my pets. Even your self heal heals the pet. It’s all about your rotations and target priorities. If certain mobs have truck load of damage then that’s your priority target. Crowd controls and ect.

It’s always like this in the beginning of the expac. Pets die quickly since we’re not geared. Give it a few weeks or a patch and it will be better.

it’s been fine for me. I completed the new ampitheatre of anguish quests solo and i hunted a bunch of the rare elites in north-western azure span solo without my pet dying - try shuffling a point into improved mend pet?