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Avoidance

Summary: Reduces the damage your pet takes from area of affect attacks.

  • Passive
  • Can be learned by: All pet families.

Notes:

Avoidance was introduced in Patch 2.1 in order to help hunter pets survive longer against bosses that use a lot of AoE attacks. This skill is usually considered very useful for active raiders and not very useful for primarily solo hunters.

Avoidance has two distinct descriptions -- which can make understanding the skill somewhat confusing. The pet trainer describes Avoidance as a skill that:

  • Increases your pet's chance to avoid area of effect attacks by an additional X%.
However, after you purchase the skill from the pet trainer, Avoidance shows up in your Beast Training menu as a skill that:
  • Reduces the damage your pet takes from area of effect attacks by an additional X%.

In other words, either your pet will get hit with fewer AoE spells, or it will get hit with the same number but will take less damage from each one. Although these two Avoidance mechanisms are quite different, the end result is the same -- your pet survives longer against enemies that use a lot of AoE attacks.

Rank Info

Rank Level TP Description
1 30 15 Reduces the damage your pet takes from area of affect attacks by an additional 25%.
2 60 25 Reduces the damage your pet takes from area of affect attacks by an additional 50%.