Avoidance (passive)

Avoidance
Avoidance Passive Reduces the damage your pet takes from creature area of effect attacks by an additional 90%.
Usable by
Class	Druid, mage, hunter, priest, shaman, warlock
Pet	Treant, Summoned Water Elemental, all hunter pets, Shadowfiend, Spirit Wolf, all warlock minions
Properties
Type	Defensive
School	Physical
Cooldown	None
Other information
Ranks	1

Avoidance is a passive summoned pet ability that decreases damage taken by AoE Spells and effects by 90%. This passive ability is innate for all classes' pets, excluding death knights, who are required to spec in to [Night of the Dead].

NotesEdit

There is only one rank of this ability, which is innately known by every non-death knight pet.

Patches and hotfixesEdit

Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Now reduces the damage your pets take from area-of-effect damage by 90%, but no longer applies to area-of-effect damage caused by other players. Doomguards and infernals now innately have Avoidance like all other warlock minions.

AoE damage reduction increased from 80%. Previously, hunters had to spend pet talents to get this ability for their pets. It is now innately passive for almost all classes with pets. The hunter pet talent has been replaced by [Culling the Herd].