auk wrote:i guess i can understand how this appears to some hunters
but at the same time, pets just did not do that much damage in vanilla. they were an annoyance in pvp but they didn't do a substantial amount of damage.
Basically, this. There's a reason Classic Hunters almost universally wanted high attack speed for their pets in PvP, in order to maximize spell pushback. Beyond that, pets were not considered an enormous DPS asset, and certainly not to the extent that they could ever kill a player of the same level 1v1, which was the case prior to this fix.