I'm a lvl 41 Bots/FF and I've been playing a lot in Recluses victory on test. Now overall I approve of Bodyguard, its been pretty useful 2 or 3 times in very constrained situation. However As a FF its much much much much less worth it for me. In fact, I dont even bother summoning my pets for PvP anymore. If i cant get some heavies to do actual damage I might as well stop pretending. All i have right now, is buffs for teamates and making heavies that much harder to kill.
In any situation where i have my pets around me on bodyguard I'm sitting still for quite a while and I get ganged, and die. Yes bodyguard keeps me alive for a few more seconds, but that just means there are more hero's beating me up.
I cannot think of one situation where I lived due to bodyguard where i would have died before.