

The core mechanics of Hunter pets remain unchanged in Shadowlands. This may have some niche use cases when soloing and your pet is hit with a heavy bleed or damage taken debuff, or to remove DoTs from your pet in PvP. Spirit Pulse) that removes harmful debuffs from the pet only. These abilities have been replaced with a personal dispel (e.g.

Since all Hunters have Tranquilizing Shot again, previous pet families that provided this same utility such as Rays or Spirit Beasts have had it removed.

Shadowlands and patch 9.0 introduces almost 300 new and unique pet appearances across all the pet families, renamed families that incorporate more beasts, and 3 entirely new families.
