Hunter Pet Problems
by Betelgeuze | 30/11/2007 09:04:29 Hello. I just had my character copied to the PTR. I've never done it before. I've done it this time because I've never been as personally affected by bugs. I read over the PTR Patch Notes, and the reported issues and I don't see much concerning hunter pets. I do not know for sure if similar issues are affecting warlocks and mages. I have experienced the following repeatedly: - Pet Pathological Pathing. My pet just can't figure out what to do. If I'm on a tower in the AV Battleground, my pet will go nuts if I direct him to attack a mob directly in front of us. I believe he is trying to get behind the mob or other player, and if that entity has their back facing outward, the pet will run all the way to the bottom of the tower and back up repeatedly. This tends to result in my death as I become distracted watching the pet. It would be entertaining, except for the dying part. In one situation my pet and another hunter's pet seemed to get locked into attempting to get behind each other. They kept running back and forth and back and forth trying to get behind each other. Sometimes the pet takes very irrational paths to his target. It was causing so many problems that I re-speced as Marksman over the AV weekend so that I could function effectively without my pet. I've since gone back to BM, but the problems are still there. The idea is a good one, I've seen it work well when it does work, I just think it needs to be looked at. - Pet Bar vanishes from time to time when summoning pet or when dismounting. The pet will appear, but I get no pet bar. Please be aware that I have followed all the traditional steps in resetting my UI. All of them. Twice now. - Sometimes my pet won't attack at all. I seem to have this occur often in close quarters like one of the mines in AV. - If I dismiss then summon my pet, a large chunk of his health will be gone. If I do it as a test repeatedly, all of his health will be gone and he will die. I didn't notice this at first and I was dismissing and summoning my pet in Battlegrounds and instances and wondering why he was dying so fast. These are just a few of the problems I'm experiencing. I apologize if all of these things have been already covered and I hope that someone at Blizzard picks up on this. When my character copy is complete I will actually go in and test, not play. And I did read that pet leveling will be sped up. Thank you very much for that. |
by Hortus | 12/12/2007 18:32:39 A bug with pet pathing was fixed in 2.3.2. If someone has actually experienced pathing issues on the PTR they should submit them as a bug report. All I see in this post is complaints about current live functionality, which does not belong in this forum. |
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