Hunter abilities/Pet abilities

Core abilities

Beast Mastery abilities

Marksmanship abilities

Survival abilities

Pet abilities

Pet specializations

Pre-Mists

For warlock minion abilities, see Minion abilities. For battle pet abilities, see Battle pet abilities.

For the old list of pet abilities, see Pet abilities (old).

A hunter pet can have different abilities, depending on its pet family and specialization. Each pet family, or beast type, has at least one single special skill. All families have an inherent specialization (Cunning/Ferocity/Tenacity), each of which gives access to additional skills. Pets can be re-specced, however, into whatever specialization the hunter desires.

Damaging pet abilities scale with the pet's melee attack power or bonus spell damage. Physical abilities generally gain bonus damage equal to 7% of the pet's melee attack power, while spell abilities generally gain bonus damage equal to 1/3 of the pet's bonus spell damage. See the attack power coefficient article for further details.

Abilities

For pet specialization abilities, see Pet specializations.

Base ability

The damaging abilities are referred to as focus dumps. They are the basic attack assigned to pet families.

Ability	Pet families
Avoidance (passive)	All pets
Bite	Basilisk, Bat, Beetle, Boar, Carrion bird, Chimera, Core hound, Crocolisk, Devilsaur, Direhorn, Dog, Dragonhawk, Fox, Hydra, Hyena, Nether ray, Quilen, Ravager, Riverbeast, Rylak, Serpent, Shale spider, Spider, Turtle, Warp stalker, Water strider, Wind serpent, Wolf, Worm
Claw (pet)	Bear, Bird of prey, Cat, Crab, Porcupine, Raptor, Scorpid, Silithid, Spirit beast, Tallstrider
Growl (pet)	All pets
Smack	Clefthoof, Crane, Goat, Gorilla, Monkey, Moth, Sporebat, Stag, Wasp

Special ability

These abilities are assigned to one pet family only, and are the hallmark of that family. They largely consist of abilities that provide buffs to allies or debuffs to enemies.

Note that the special abilities for exotic beasts are listed in the exotic ability section.

Ability	Pet family
Agile Reflexes	Fox
Ankle Crack	Crocolisk
Bark of the Wild	Dog
Blessing of Kongs	Gorilla
Bloody Screech	Carrion Bird
Breath of the Winds	Wind Serpent
Cackling Howl	Hyena
Chitinous Armor	Ravager
Deadly Sting	Scorpid
Defensive Quills	Porcupine
Dust of Life	Moth
Energizing Spores	Sporebat
Furious Howl	Wolf
Gift of Chi-Ji	Crane
Grace (pet ability)	Stag
Gruesome Bite	Riverbeast
Harden Carapace	Beetle
Harden Shell	Crab
Indomitable	Boar
Invigorating Roar	Bear

Ability	Pet family
Keen Senses	Hydra
Plainswalking	Tallstrider
Primal Agility	Monkey
Reflective Armor Plating	Direhorn
Roar of Courage	Cat
Savage Vigor	Rylak
Serpent's Cunning	Serpent
Shell Shield	Turtle
Sonic Focus	Bat
Speed of the Swarm	Wasp
Spry Attacks	Dragonhawk
Strength of the Pack	Raptor
Sturdiness	Goat
Tenacity (pet ability)	Bird of Prey
Thick Hide (pet ability)	Clefthoof
Updraft	Rylak
Warp Time	Warp Stalker
Web Spray	Spider
Wild Strength	Clefthoof

Exotic ability

These abilities are used solely by exotic beasts, which can only be tamed by beasmaster hunters with the [Exotic Beasts] ability. Special abilities for exotic beasts are also included here, rather than in the special ability section.

Ability	Pet family
Ancient Hysteria	Core Hound, Nether Ray (non-exotic)
Burrow Attack	Worm
Double Bite	Core Hound
Duality	Chimaera
Embrace of the Shale Spider	Shale spider
Eternal Guardian	Quilen
Fearless Roar	Quilen
Feast	Devilsaur
Frost Breath	Chimaera
Froststorm Breath	Chimaera
Molten Hide	Core Hound
Monstrous Bite	Devilsaur
Qiraji Fortitude	Silithid
Solid Shell	Shale Spider
Spirit Beast Blessing	Spirit beast
Spirit Mend	Spirit Beast
Spirit Walk	Spirit beast
Still Water	Water strider
Stone Armor	Quilen
Strength of the Earth	Worm
Surface Trot	Water strider
Tendon Rip	Silithid
Terrifying Roar	Devilsaur

Bonus ability

These are largely for vanity reasons and perform no other function, with the exception of prowl.

Ability	Pet families
Play	Fox
Prowl (pet)	Cat
Rest (pet) Rest (pet)	Bear Porcupine
Trick Trick	Bird of prey Crane

Patch changes

• Patch 5.0.4 (28-August-2012): Removed talent system and replaced with specializations.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Removed all previous skill and replaced it with a pet talent system.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): Added 2 more basic pet abilities.
  
• Patch 1.9.0 (03-Jan-2006): Added 3 more basic pet abilities.
  
• Patch 1.8.0 (10-Oct-2005): Added eight more basic pet abilities.
  

See also

Wowhead 

Petopia