Can you imagine what is the new Exotic pet information? Wryxian, who is the EU Community Manager, emphasized on a hint about an 'Exotic Pet' talent for Hunters today.

Source from Blizzard, we know that the developers are currently working on the exotic pet talent. Exotic pets are exactly that, exotic and not the average run of the mill pet. But whether this name will stick or not, is uncertain at this point. But these will be a range of new pets with unique abilities, that only those with the talent will be able to tame and train. Where do you get them, well, we've not got news on that right now -- perhaps somewhere, exotic!

These pets are different from normal pets, but they're not necessarily more "uber" than others. However they will have access to unique abilities not available to the normal pets that every Hunter can train. A Hunter with this talent will get extra power, but from the talent's associated additional pet talent points and not necessarily from the exotic pet.

When pet changes, maybe you will ask: "What happens to the pet if/when you change specs?" Are the 'tank' pets, just tougher/more aggro for the hunter, or are they expected to actually fill a "limited' off-tanking role?"

It's just the same as a respec now, 10s at any time for pet respecs, if you put a talent in a wrong place, or you're going from PvE to PvP, it shouldn't cost even 1g to retrain your pet, so. They are both. Blizzard has said that they would like to have Hunter pets be able to off-tank a mob for at least a little in Heroic Dungeons in WotLK. Thank god I have a boar. Now he'll finally be able to hold aggro off of me for more than Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot and if I'm lucky Multi-Shot before the mob comes charging at me, as BM spec.