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Mend Pet

Mend Pet
45 yd range
Channeled
Requires Hunter
Requires level 16

Heals your pet for 25% of its total health over 10 sec.

Buff

Mend Pet	Magic

Heals 5% of the pets health every 2 sec.
10 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

None

Range

45 yards (Longer)

Cast time

Channeled

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect

Apply Aura: Mod Total Health Regen %
Value: 5% every 2 seconds

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Guides

Hunter DPS Guide
(Beast Mastery,
Marksmanship, Survival)

Hunter Pet Tanking

Warlords of Draenor
Hunter Changes

Comments

Comment by Dimma

It's still a great buff for us ordinary PvE'ers who can now continue dps while mending the pet, or put a mend to boost pet health reg between fights. It's quite cheap in mana too.

Comment by soultwister

It's pretty good for PvP too, with two points in Improved Mend Pet you can remove CC from your pet easily. Two points isn't that much if you're already trying to pass the tiers for Beast Within. Using Rank 1 is prefered for this cause (32 mana cost).

Comment by claw999

Does anyone know if this increases pet happiness without the mend pet glyph?

Comment by Shageki

This ability has gotten a huge buff overall with it being changed to percentage based healing, as well ticking every two seconds instead of every three (Which triggers improved Mend Pet more frequently on top of providing more healing).

With the glyph, Spirit Bond, and Blood of the Rhino, it heals your pet for close to 13% of it's max health per two seconds.

Comment by doctorgray

Yes, this spell in conjunction w/ other healing effects on pets in cata are quite rediculous.

To illustrate how so, I've succesfully solo pet tanked argaloth w/ 1 really pro disc healer.

Here's the details

40% Bonus Healing (Blood of the Rhino talent)
10% Bonus Healing (Spirit Bond)
2% Healing per 10s (SB)
40% Healing per 10s (Mend Pet w/ Glyph)
Dispel Every 4s (1 pt in IMP)
2% Healing per 3.5s (Silverback)

To sum that up you need to know your pet's health. With raid buffs, and my pet tanking (stamina, etc) gear, my pet is at around 150k health atm.

That's:
3k per 10s x 50% modifier: 4.5k per 10s (450 hps)
60k per 10s x 50% modifier: 90k per 10s (9k hps)
3k per 3.5s x 50% modifier: 4.5k per 3.5s (~1.3k hps)

In other words, a grand total of 10.7k hps which rivals alot of good healers in game at the moment. Not only that but our pets dont take too much more damage than a normal tank, especially if an encounter revolves around AoE (Due to Avoidance of 90% of AoE) or magic damage (high resistances). We have amazing cooldowns (50% dmg reduction for 12s every 42s )

So you can effectively have a pet tank something like argaloth, and with enough health to soak the blows, you dont have to tank swap at all due to the meteor splash being aoe. You only need 1, maybe 2 healers and any healing that is done on your pet beyond the 8-11k that you can achieve via upping stamina, talents and mend pet is enhanced by 50%.

Pretty insane if you ask me.

Comment by chaoscurtis

You forget to calculate in the bonus healing provided by raid buffs.

Comment by tippy7

Had an odd little glitch happen with this today. I pulled out my bear to tank an elite and hit mend pet, only to be told that a stronger spell is already active. I tried again a few seconds later, and the same thing happened. When I looked at my pet, it had the normal mend pet buff, but it said "9 days remaining"! I have no idea how it happened. It was nice not to have to click it but it did mean I had to listen to the mend pet noise every 2 seconds...

Comment by Evangelism

I've always wanted to try this, but since Mend Pet is labeled as a "magic" ability, can I spell steal it? xD

Edit: downrated becauseee why? It was a simple question. A yes or no would do. >.>

Comment by doctorgray

I've never seen Mend Pet spell stolen by a Mage, but it probably doesn't work.

Even if it can be, it's probably not advisable because it says in the description that it heals 5% of the pet's health every 2s. Glyphed this is upped to 4%, and the pet's healing enhancements along w/ BM enhancements up it some more, but these won't affect you, all except maybe the glyphed portion. If you steal it it may not heal you at all, even if it did heal you , it's dispellable, and you're better off using your spell steals on important abilities such as Master's Call, and whatever the Hunter's partners are using. If you're considering spell stealing it in order to prevent the pet from getting heals, this spell has no cooldown and can be spam cast instantly. I'll have to test it in game, but I have a feeling it won't work.

Comment by xXxDSMer

i don't see a button to directly reply to a comment so i'll havta sorta quote what i'm talking about..

To illustrate how so, I've succesfully solo pet tanked argaloth w/ 1 really pro disc healer.

Its not solo if you have a priest with you. Solo is SOLO like the other night i killed the boss by the black anvil with my paladin while lv53-55ish with no external help, not even buffs leftover from party members. That is solo. Having buffs from other classes and especially having a priest there to heal is not.

Comment by Pazhala

I don't know why, but currently the wowhead tooltip says that Mend Pet is a "channeled" ability. I just tested it in-game, and it's definitely still an instant cast with 10 second duration.

Comment by rcingnoob

From the Patch 5.4 PTR I've noticed this spell currently has a 10 second cooldown and ticks every second (for 5 seconds) and CANNOT be buffed for extra healing.

Comment by Bogdanov89

After 5.4 it works like this:

Without glyph: Heals the pet for 5% of it's total HP every 2 seconds for 10 seconds - total of 25% pet hp healed.

With glyph: Heals the pet for 5% of it's total HP every 1 second for 10 seconds - total of 50% pet hp healed.

In other words, the glyph makes the spell heal at twice the speed over the same duration, ending up in exactly twice the amount of healing.

This is a buff from the previous version of the spell where the glyph changed it only from 25% to 40%, without speeding up the healing ticks.

Comment by Joe1113

I have a dumb question...as a hunter, I am getting tired of not being able to see my pet's health due to the oddly huge texted healing numbers and damage appearing over my pet's portrait. Is there is a script or macro I can run or use to hide the incoming damage and/or healing on my pet? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Comment by dillybar

"Where does my Mend Pet button go when my pet dies?"

As of 6.0.2, Revive Pet and Mend Pet are integrated into one spot on your action bar.

Basically what this means, is that if your pet is alive, the button will show "Mend Pet". But if your pet has died, that same button turns into "Revive Pet". Very useful, especially when you are in a tough battle, when you click the button, if the pet has just died, instead it will revive your pet.

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