Originally posted by Narrrz:

Another issue with wolves specifically is their terrain traversal. They can follow you up any degree of slope, it seems, and you can only stay ahead of them so long as you have stamina to sprint, so if you're not in a good position to deal with one (low health, for example), aggroing one can basically be a death sentence. I'm a big opponent of unavoidable death in any game, i think that the player should always have the ability to either succeed or escape.

You always have that choice. You can exit the game, recover in another world, come back and finish the fight, but that makes the game mostly pointless.