Originally Posted by
Spiralphoenix
It's kinda funny that you lead into this mentioning hunter soloing, because having a pet is what enables hunter soloing at it's current level, but I understand where you're coming from.
But yeah, this is something I've wanted very early into when I first started raiding. Pets have always been in general a overall disadvantage at least in PvE, with things like buggy pathing and encounter mechanics and buffs that clearly weren't designed with them in mind (and this continues to happen after 8 years of pets existing in the game with encounter design). Though I think it'd be pretty goofy to let BM have the capability as you mention, I've always imagined it as a MM/SV exclusive type thing, or at the very least MM only. Beast Master without a... beast... doesn't really make sense. Marksman, totally. Pet just gets in the way when he's concentrating, or something.
This is suggested pretty frequently actually and I've always been in support. But you'll have a majority of the hunter community come in here very soon all saying something along the lines of "hunter's don't make sense without pets!", "the lore says this and that!" while the suggestions always allow for them to keep their precious pet and for us go solo. I don't see it ever happening, unfortunately.