Quote Originally Posted by Vicker View Post
The fact that there's a healing pet seems intriguing, and is a pretty substantial change, if you ask me. The heal has a 40 second cooldown, but if you had one tank pet and four healing pets you could round robin the heals.
Are you talking about PvE? Tanking with a pet has never been a great way to do Heroic instances**. I was able to pull off leveling in WotLK dungeons using 4 BM specs and a Druid or Priest main as a healer (and it was FUN!!), but the whole system falls apart in WotLK with heroic content**. I am not totally up to speed on the latest changes, but Blizzard pretty much decided they don't want hunters to be able to fill the role of Tank in instances, and that's probably not going to change in Cata**. The usual problem has been that you can provide enough HPS to the pets to keep it alive, but their health pool** is so small and the avoidance** is limited enough that they get creamed in heroic content**.

For PvP, you don't really need a tank pet, you pick one based off its combination of damage and CC utility.






** Assuming you don't vastly over-gear the content.