Pet abilities

For warlock minion abilities, see Minion abilities.

A hunter pet can have different abilities, depending on it´s pet family. Each pet family, or beast type, has one single special skill and belongs to one of the three pet classes Cunning / Ferocity / Tenacity, each of which gives access to a certain pet talent tree. In the pet talent tree the hunter can assign talent points for skills. Some are active combat abilities, used to improve combat effectiveness, or passive abilities.

A hunter can specialize his or her pets, to a large degree, by the choice of pet family, pet class, and talent build, for example to make a pet a more effective tank or a damage-dealer.

Pet Skill Calculators

Just like the many Talent Build Calculators out there for classes, there are a few Hunter Pet Skill Calculators to help you plan how to spend your pets training points and minimize leftover unusable points.

These calculators are all third-party, not Blizzard's, and therefore can fall out of date with content patches. Current as of October 22, 2008:

• http://www.wowhead.com/?petcalc

Skills

Ability		Description	Ranks	DPF	Learned from	Trainable by
	[Great Stamina]	Increases Stamina by 3-40 (Health points gained = Stamina * 10 ).	1-10	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	[Natural Armor]	Increases Armor by 50-1000.	1-10	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	Resistances	Increases Arcane resistance by X.	1-4	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	Resistances	Increases Fire resistance by X.	1-4	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	Resistances	Increases Frost resistance by X.	1-4	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	Resistances	Increases Nature resistance by X.	1-4	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	Resistances	Increases Shadow resistance by X.	1-4	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	Avoidance	Reduces the damage your pet takes from area of effect attacks by an additional 25/50%.	1-2	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	[Cobra Reflexes]	Attack speed increased by 30%, but damage done is reduced.	1	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	Growl	An important aggro-management tool and the opposite of Cower. Generates threat (but no damage) against the target. Helps the pet function like a tank and to keep aggro away from the Hunter with his high DPS. Higher ranks generate more threat and function against higher-level mobs.	1-7	n/a	Pet Trainer	All
	[Bite]	An instant attack that is more powerful than Claw but has a cooldown and costs more focus points. Causes X to Y damage, 10 second cooldown.	1-8	3.428	Taming	All except: Scorpids, Crabs and Owls
File:Ability Hunter Pet Boar.png	Charge	Functioning like a Warrior Charge skill, it allows the boar to charge his target (at the range of 8-25 yd), immobilizing it for one second and delivering a single attack with a bonus to attack power. Higher ranks grant more attack power.	1-6	n/a	Taming	Boars
	Claw	Causes X to Y damage, 5 second cooldown. Is claimed to produce more Threat than bite.	1-9	2.6	Taming	Owls, Carrions, Crabs, Cats, Raptors, Scorpids, Bears
File:Ability Druid Cower.png	Cower	An important aggro-management tool and the opposite of Growl. Functions like [Disengage] in that it generates no damage but lowers the threat the pet has (thus encouraging the target to attack a different mark). Higher ranks reduce threat further and against higher-level mobs. This skill is useful in PVE for fine-tuning aggro control.	1-7	n/a	Taming	All
	Dash	An instant burst of speed that increases the pet's movement rate for 15 seconds. Very useful in PVP and stopping runners in PVE, as well as special pulls combined with the Eyes of the Beast skill. Increases movement speed by +X% for 15 seconds.	1-3	n/a	Taming	Tallstriders, Boars, Wolves, Hyenas, Cats
	[Dive]	Similar to Dash. Increases movement speed by +X% for 15 seconds.	1-3	n/a	Taming	Birds
	[Fire Breath]	Targets in a cone in front of the caster take X Fire damage over 2 sec.	1-2	DPE	Taming	Dragonhawks
File:Ability Hunter Pet Wolf.png	[Furious Howl]	Increases the damage of the next attack made by all party members in range (15 yd). The attack must be made within ten seconds. Party members within range receive an extra X to Y damage to their next Attack.	1-4	n/a	Taming	Wolves
	Gore	Gores the enemy, causing X to XX damage. This attack has a 50% chance to inflict double damage.	1-9	2.94	Taming	Boars, Ravagers
	[Lightning Breath]	Ranged attack, Breathes Lightning, dealing X to Y damage to single target.	1-6	2.12	Taming	Windserpents
	[Poison Spit]	Spits poison at the enemy, dealing X Nature damage over 8 seconds.	1-3	DPE	Taming	Serpents
File:Ability Druid SupriseAttack.png	Prowl	Allows the cat to go into stealth mode and to backstab on the next attack, similar to a Rogue. Stealths the pet. Movement is reduced to X% of normal. First attack out of Stealth does Y% of normal damage. Can be used with Dash.	1-3	n/a	Taming	Cats
	[Scorpid Poison]	Allows the scorpid to poison the target, applying a poison that deals X nature damage over 8 seconds and can stack up to five times.	1-4	DPE	Taming	Scorpids
File:Ability Hunter Pet Bat.png	[Screech]	Launches an AoE attack against all enemies within range (5 yd). Also reduces attack power of effected enemies. Blasts a single enemy for X to Y damage, and lowers the Attack Power of all enemies in range by Z.	1-5	2.35	Taming	Bats, Carrion Birds, Owls
File:Ability Hunter Pet Turtle.png	[Shell Shield]	Reduces all damage by 50%, but decreases attack speed by 30%. Lasts 12 sec.	1	n/a	Taming	Turtles
	Thunderstomp	Shakes the ground with thundering force, doing X to Y Nature damage to all enemies within 8 yards and causing a large amount of threat.	1-3	DPE	Taming	Gorillas
	[Warp]	Teleports to an enemy up to 30 yards away and gives the pet a 50% chance to avoid the next melee attack. Lasts 4 sec.	1	n/a	Taming	Warp Stalkers

• DPF : Damage per focus, or threat per focus.

Past changes

Originally, there were 6 basic pet abilities: Bite, Claw, Cower, Growl, Dash and Dive.

• v1.8.0 added eight more
• v1.9.0 added 3 more.
• v2.1.0 added 2 more.
• v3.0.2 removed all previous skill and replaced it with a pet talent system.

See also

Wowhead 

Wowhead Pet training calculator

Good Intentions Hunter Pet Guide

TKA Something 

Petopia 

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