Unofficial Bug Reports / Changes for 5.0.4

[Lisaara]

Also uh....Tenacity pets seem to be very squishy. My raid leader has always used her turtle to tank trash mobs on hagara. For some reason last night...her turtle would just get insta-killed. He was specced Tenacity. Anyone else have that issue?

[Kurasu]

Battle-flagged critters are tab-targetable. They also seem to be considered 'alternative targets' for AOE and multi-target abilities, unlike normal critters which are... well.... critters. Not sure if that's intentional or not.

Also uh....Tenacity pets seem to be very squishy. My raid leader has always used her turtle to tank trash mobs on hagara. For some reason last night...her turtle would just get insta-killed. He was specced Tenacity. Anyone else have that issue?

If you think Tenacity pets are squishy, you should try a DPS pet. But yes. All pets are taking *massive* amounts of damage. I don't know whether this is a bug or a feature. We *were* some massively OP 'tanks' in Cataclysm.

[Sar]

I seriously hope it's a bug, because otherwise we're going to turn into turtle healers with some occassional dps thrown in :s

[Makoes]

I noticed my Human female warlock sprouting horns in that odd location as well...

[Kalliope]

Oddly, my worgen warlock's horns showed up properly. At least it's not all races across the board!

I wonder if the AoE damage reduction pets used to get passively has been removed....

[Aretak]

I wonder if the AoE damage reduction pets used to get passively has been removed....

Avoidance is still there and functioning properly. I tested it on Baron Geddon in Hyjal and my pet took the proper reduced damage from his AoE.

I did notice that my pet's armour value is pretty pitiful though. Just 19,470 on a Tenacity-specced turtle, which amounts to a measily 42.75% damage reduction. I don't remember how much it was before, but that's only a marginal amount more armour than I have, so it explains why they can't tank very well any more.

I'm not sure if maybe something's broken in the scaling between the Hunter's armour and the pet's, or if they just wanted pets to be a lot less effective as tanks. Sadly, I imagine it might be the latter.

[cowmuflage]

All so can you make the hud the same size as it was before? It's so small!

There's a slider for HUD size somewhere in the display settings. I had the opposite problem--it was too big on the PTR--but found the slider eventually.

Ah okay cool. After all these years I'm still a noob XD

[Rawr]

My Spectral Wolf is giving me errors on my level 20 that I need higher riding, no other ground mount that I can find is giving me that error.

[Kalliope]

I'm not sure if maybe something's broken in the scaling between the Hunter's armour and the pet's, or if they just wanted pets to be a lot less effective as tanks. Sadly, I imagine it might be the latter.

But if it's the former, it's a bug.

[Aquillian]

Just gonna add this here: The new Glyph of Endless Wrath makes mobs behave as though your pet died during BW. They will stop attacking it and run to you. If you feign they will despawn.

[Nachtwulf]

MAJOR MAJOR bug for Mac users.

The 5.0.4 client creates a runaway process that while it won't impair your gameplay too much (at first anyway), WILL fry your machine's brain as it drives your CPU to 170%-200% capacity and leaves it there.

PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR TEMPERATURE SETTINGS/ACTIVITY MONITOR IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO MELT YOUR CPU!

If you are having this problem please post/let Blizzard know on the following thread: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic ... 648?page=1

[cowmuflage]

Um the seats in the zep to Northrend in Org are black. Just black O.o could be me tho.

[Sigrah]

Here's a really good one: My Priest was just awarded Maw of the Dragonlord while in shadow spec. I thought this new system was supposed to award "spec appropriate" items, and I don't see how a healing mace is supposed to be appropriate for a toon that sits back and only does damage. Any healing I do is based on whatever Vampiric Embrace gives or throwing up the occasional Power Word: Shield, so perhaps this is a bug?

[Ziarre]

Posted in a couple other threads but!

Popping Bestial Wrath or Lynx Rush on Malygos causes him to drop aggro on my pet. This resulted in a few deaths from face-smacking until I called in a friend who simply healed me through it.

Nether Vapors on Kael'thas in Tempest Keep don't despawn for hours.

[Vephriel]

Popping Bestial Wrath or Lynx Rush on Malygos causes him to drop aggro on my pet. This resulted in a few deaths from face-smacking until I called in a friend who simply healed me through it.

It seems to be the work of the new bestial wrath glyph.
http://forums.wow-petopia.com/viewtopic ... 15&t=18825

[Ziarre]

Oof. Well, looks like I'm switching to Animal Bond until they fix it, then.

[Aretak]

I'm not sure if maybe something's broken in the scaling between the Hunter's armour and the pet's, or if they just wanted pets to be a lot less effective as tanks. Sadly, I imagine it might be the latter.

But if it's the former, it's a bug.

I'm thinking more that it could definetly be a bug now having looked at my Warlock. The Voidlord has 32,805 armour for a far more satisfying 55.72% damage reduction. I don't see why they'd only nerf Hunter pets specifically if they were nerfing pet tanking, especially since they massively buffed Growl.

If I had to guess, I'd say pets aren't getting any bonus armour from their master, which the in-game tooltips say they should be. Mine says it should be getting 11,357 armour from me, but on his tab the +armour value in green is only counting the extra 20% from Blood of the Rhino, whereas before the armour from the Hunter was listed there too.

The number that it should be getting from me would bring it up about equal with the Voidlord, which seems right. So yeah, on balance it probably, almost definetly is a bug. Maybe.

[Kalliope]

I'm not sure if maybe something's broken in the scaling between the Hunter's armour and the pet's, or if they just wanted pets to be a lot less effective as tanks. Sadly, I imagine it might be the latter.

But if it's the former, it's a bug.

I'm thinking more that it could definetly be a bug now having looked at my Warlock. The Voidlord has 32,805 armour for a far more satisfying 55.72% damage reduction. I don't see why they'd only nerf Hunter pets specifically if they were nerfing pet tanking, especially since they massively buffed Growl.

If I had to guess, I'd say pets aren't getting any bonus armour from their master, which the in-game tooltips say they should be. Mine says it should be getting 11,357 armour from me, but on his tab the +armour value in green is only counting the extra 20% from Blood of the Rhino, whereas before the armour from the Hunter was listed there too.

The number that it should be getting from me would bring it up about equal with the Voidlord, which seems right. So yeah, on balance it probably, almost definetly is a bug. Maybe.

Sounds to me like you're on the right track! (BTW, welcome to the posting side of the forums!)

[Vasken]

Glyph of Charm Woodland Creature (druids) doesn't seem to work as intended. It charms critters, but they don't follow and simply despawn if you stray too far!

Warlock and hunter pets are also extremely squishtastic and aggrotastic! I used to be able to solo Onyxia with ease, but the whelps completely destroy my turtle in moments- as others have reported. Minions are also pulling insane aggro; my imp's growl was off and it completely tore Morchok away from the tank earlier.

[Wain]

Good thread, but I'm moving it to WoW General, since it's about live and not beta. I'm also merging Sukurachi's bug thread into it. Cheers