Unique Waterfowl
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Unique Waterfowl
I saw this hunter with a mini duck. I can't find anything about it on petopia. Where it comes from? It's the cutest thing I ever seen!
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Re: Unique Waterfowl
From my understanding, there was a bug at the start of Dragonflight involving a quest item; not going to go into details cause of issues it caused that aren't Petopia-friendly but it got definitively fixed ages ago.
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Could it have been a polymorphed pet? I can't find any baby ducks in the database that have the potential for taming. The only one classified as a beast and also flagged tameable is the Messenger Mallard <trainee> but it's also friendly.
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WerebearGuy
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Dialga nailed it. There was indeed a "clever use of game mechanics" that got fixed VERY early (I want to say when M+ came out? Maybe earlier). It was an exploit, though it was entirely harmless to other players as far as I have seen. I've seen other things done with it when I was leveling, but it's easy to connect it to the duck too. I don't recall it being a public hotfix, though there's a lot of things they don't list on patch notes. I just know I was having fun with it when I hit 70, and it stopped working one day after a reset.
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I'm that hunter and, as said before, it was a badly coded item during the first weeks of Dragonflight. It was an harmless exploit but, since it "disrupted the game" in a similar way to the Necrolord's one, it got fixed very, very fast in 2-3 days. Nowadays it doesn't work anymore, pretty much like its predecessor.
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Valnaaros
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Which item was it?
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https://www.wowhead.com/item=200201/nokhud-battlegear
It was possible to move outside the world quest area and tame friendly NPCs, obviously with some tricks, but now it resets as soon as you leave it.
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SylviaDragon
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ah, thats a shame. 
i didnt even hear about this one. I missed the Necrolord's one too. Would have liked to try and grab the friendly wind serpents or my own duck. =/
i didnt even hear about this one. I missed the Necrolord's one too. Would have liked to try and grab the friendly wind serpents or my own duck. =/
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Oh. That's a shame! Thanks for your reply.Vesania wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 3:37 pm I'm that hunter and, as said before, it was a badly coded item during the first weeks of Dragonflight. It was an harmless exploit but, since it "disrupted the game" in a similar way to the Necrolord's one, it got fixed very, very fast in 2-3 days. Nowadays it doesn't work anymore, pretty much like its predecessor.