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Blood of the Rhino

Blood of the Rhino

Increases all healing effects on your pet by 40%, increasing your pet's armor by 20%, and reduces your pet's chance to be critically hit by melee attacks by 6%.

Spell Details

Duration

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School

Physical

Mechanic

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Dispel type

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GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Mod Healing Taken - % (Arcane, Fire, Frost, Holy, Nature, Physical, Shadow)
Value: 40%

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Resistance % (Physical)
Value: 20%

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Mod Attacker Melee Crit Chance - %
Value: -6%

Flags

Passive spell
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Guides

Hunter DPS Guide
(Beast Mastery,
Marksmanship, Survival)

Warlords of Draenor
Hunter Changes

Comments

Comment by tyler2k

Tenacity tree's bread and butter spec, 40% healing on your pet will mean better mana efficiency in arenas as well as a greater probability of keeping your pet alive. Even though the changes are not visible in wowhead's pet talent calculators, this ability requires 3 points in Great Stamina that automatically completes the requisite of 3 total points in the tenacity tree. This talent is also a great complement to Intervene ( http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53476 ) in the tenacity tree. If your opponent can break the 40% improved healingm stam. bonuses, and armor bonuses, you can still "instantly" retreat your pet if it's getting low (assuming your pet is not stunned/rooted).

Couple 40% healing with 14% more stamina from talents and you have yourself one resilient pet.

On a side note, Blood of the Rhino requires only 5 (total) pet talent points to reach, therefore this ability is reachable at level 36 for starting hunters and would make a great combo with improved mend pet ( http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?spell=19573 ).

Comment by Ultros

I agree with tyler, but i also like to add that it is still more of a solo/5-man group talent then a pvp owner, this will make pets tank in regular 5-man groups if executed correctly and there is enough cc or a off-tank availible, and ofc course greatly increases the off/2nd tank ability of your pets.
I like the idea that you gonna have to chose witch part of the deal you want, since pets in pvp content can be quite annoying resillient that when facing a bm, getting high survivability for a pet can and will mean your sarcifing damage dealt by it, this verstaillety is great for hunters but also a breathing space for their opponents, who can nail the weakness that isn't improved (in the above example i would recomment cc or just ignoring it)

Comment by Interest

This talent stacks with the new Spirit Bond talent (+10% healing on hunter and pet).

Edit: Multiplicatively, I might add. (1.1 * 1.4 = 1.54)

Edit2: This now applies to Glyph of Animal Bond instead of Spirit Bond.

Comment by trollvink

Blood of the Rhino + Spirit Bond + Mend Pet = Best healing you can get.

Comment by Fraag

This talent is very useful in the Valithria Dreamwalker fight in ICC. A pally beacon's the boss and heals the pet. http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/w7xemodqnteczkd6/sum/healingDone/?s=5097&e=5499#Delorak. Makes for ridiculous healing.

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