Oh my gosh! What is this!?

[Kirrandria]

So I'm running through BGs, trying to get my children's week achievement, and I go to AV, mount up, run past a few alliance... get monofire spammed by a laserchicken. I thought " Oh great, I'm going to die, need to outrun them... " And I managed to get ahead and leave them behind, when all of a sudden something big and blue is chasing me across the snow, and catching up to me fast... Oh great, a hunter with Skoll, sending his pet to chase me...

Wait...

It's not attacking me. <stops the bear, and watches as the wolf comes to a rest by her side>... How the heck?

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I'm not sure how this is possible, but it seems the game glitched and left my pet out while I was mounted.

[Nick]

That glitch has been seen before, I thought Blizz fixed it awhile ago... o-0

[Miyon]

But after the recent patch hunters have their pet out while mounted.
Someone mentioned it could be a fix to the pets only having 4k health upon dismounting.

This is only in battlegrounds as far as I'm concerned.

[Sarayana]

That bug seems to keep reappearing, huh? Pretty neat, and I like your screenshot!

[Kalliope]

It seems to be intentional in bgs, since it's happening regularly to all of us.

[Chimera]

ive had it happen in dungeons, its stopped a while ago tho sadly (or its just become extremely infrequently) but if i entered a dungeon mounted, when i left the dungeon and had the pet out, occasionally the pet and i will return to where sitting and the pet will be beside me ^-^

[Acherontia]

Used to be a bug, then was fixed. Recent patch, as said, has ALL pets out by their masters' sides in BGS--probably, as mentioned--as a fix to the pet HP bug. By ALL pets (and this is why I'm posting, new info inc ) I also mean water elementals, warlock demons etc! This is probably why it's reappearing.

I don't know why they don't just leave it like that, and disable it only for flying mounts!

[Cialbi]

I just hope they don't consider this a fix, just a stopgap until they can figure out a fix. Heart of the Phoenix is still next to useless.

[Sarayana]

Used to be a bug, then was fixed. Recent patch, as said, has ALL pets out by their masters' sides in BGS--probably, as mentioned--as a fix to the pet HP bug. By ALL pets (and this is why I'm posting, new info inc ) I also mean water elementals, warlock demons etc! This is probably why it's reappearing.

I don't know why they don't just leave it like that, and disable it only for flying mounts!

I would be on my ground mount all the damn time.

[Nightsights]

i did school of hard knocks on sunday night to get my last achieve for the violet drake. every hunter, every game (i did about 20 games) the pets were out.

[Bairde]

I noticed this as well, but my line of thinking was that it made it more fair to other players, since pets are like a mini-player, and it is unfair for them to be invincible while mounted when other players aren't, but that was just what I felt, I could be wrong.

[Litlemouse]

Yea it's only in BGs, I first noticed it actually playing on my BG alt (who is a Arcane Mage), I saw this belf riding around with her cat while mounted, and I was like "Whaaaaat? HOW?!" You know that feeling?
Anyway you can't control them while you're mounted, their powers bar is gray like when they are stunned/feared etc. Still really neat!

[Rhapture]

I remember when they were always out when you were mounted and then flying mounts came out and they changed it. Honestly I miss my pet running beside me when I am on my ground mount. It was really nice when you had to run through a group of mobs and your pet would keep them busy allowing you to get away.