Pet talents

Prior to Patch 5.0.4, hunter pets enjoyed their own talent system, featuring trees in which hunters could spend each pet's talent points. The pet talent system was removed with Mists of Pandaria, with many talents removed, and the rest converted into specialization-specific pet abilities.

The pet talent system replaced the earlier training point system for hunter pets, with the pets themselves using the talent points and trees.

Pets started earning talent points at level 20 and then gained a point every 4 levels, level 85 hunters' pets having a total of 17 spendable points, unless improved with the former Exotic Beasts talent, which added 4 more points. 3 points needed to be spent to reach the next tier.

Each pet had their own tree which would be either Cunning, Ferocity, or Tenacity.

Pet talents could be reset at a pet trainer for free.

These talents can be used for all pet family types. Different trees may have them at different tier levels.

These talents can be used by the following pet family types: Bat, Birds of prey, Chimera, Dragonhawk, Nether Ray, Ravager, Serpent, Silithid, Spider, Sporebat, Wind Serpent.

The tree gives burst, stun and crowd-control abilities, useful in PvP.

These talents can be used by the following pet family types: Carrion Bird, Cat, Core Hound, Devilsaur, Hyena, Moth, Raptor, Spirit Beast, Tallstrider, Wasp, Wolf, Fox and Dog.

The tree is designed for boosting PvE DPS.

These talents can be used by the following pet family types: Bear, Boar, Crab, Crocolisk, Gorilla, Rhino, Scorpid, Turtle, Warp Stalker, Worm.

The tree is designed for boosting tanking ability, either for soloing or for gimmick group-tanking.