Anyone know why my pet keeps dying randomly?

[Kokiron]

This has happened to me twice today. The first time I sent him in at full HP at one mob right after dismounting, and he dies as soon as he gets near it. The second time I was running up into the widow's clutch on my mount with my pet following of course, and I aggro one of the yellow spiders and my pet just rolls over and dies while i'm mounted.

The pet is Terrorpene, if it makes any difference.

Edit: Updating the OP with my findings. The first death seems to be due to just stat update lag, but the second is a bug. I recreated what I did the second time he died to see if I could get it to happen again and I was able to successfully recreate it every time I tried without fail. This bug appears to be only in in Survival spec, I was NOT able to recreate it as BM. I dont have a Marksman spec to try that.

The bug: Be in Hyjal on a mount that automatically converts into a ground mount once you zone into the Molten Front. Mounts like the roflcopter, the sparkle horse, winged guardian, hippogryphs and gryphons are all candidates. Make sure you're flying on your mount so your pet despawns but will respawn once you land and dismount. Zone into the Molten Front, and before dismounting cast your eagle eye out someplace far away (I used deth's spawn point) so that you dismount because of casting it. Your pet will spawn by your side, but it's stats will NOT update after any amount of waiting. Canceling eagle eye doesn't make it update, nor does mounting up and riding out, or sending your pet in to attack. The only way to get your pets stats to update are to dismiss and resummon or have it die and res.

[TygerDarkstorm]

Does he have a debuff on him that might be killing him? Other than that, I can't really think of why he would be just randomly keeling over. I would possibly ticket it as well if you can't get it figured out so you can go back to using your buddy properly again.

[Kokiron]

Does he have a debuff on him that might be killing him? Other than that, I can't really think of why he would be just randomly keeling over. I would possibly ticket it as well if you can't get it figured out so you can go back to using your buddy properly again.

Nah no debuffs, both times i'd been sitting around not doing anything beforehand so there wasn't anything for him to get a debuff from. IDK, if it happens again i'm going to ticket it.

[Acherontia]

Check your Combat Logs and see what it says, it should list what exactly killed your pet--there's tons of AoE in the Molten Front, so it's possible the pet ran through before his HP scaled or something : /

[TygerDarkstorm]

How weird. Wish I had a better suggestion, but I haven't seen this happen so all I can say is I hope you get it fixed soon.

[Kokiron]

Well I cant get far enough back in my combat log to see the first one, but the second time it just has two melee swings from the yellow spider that was chasing me, one for 3k and one for 4k, and the 4k hit says it was a 300some damage overkill. There's no other damage to him at all before that until all the way back when I was in Hyjal questing. I dont think 7k damage is enough to kill a pet with 104k HP.

I did however just notice that when I first take my pet out he only has a bout 7.5k HP for a bit, and then it shoots up to 104k. Think it could just be super laggy pet stat updating? I mean, i'm not actually lagging any in game but I have noticed lately that my pets take a while to spawn at my side when I zone into the newer places etc.


Edit: I just did some experimenting and I think i've figured out the issue. I ride around on my roflcopter between Hyjal and the Molten Front so I dont have to dismount and remount to be able to fly in Hyjal. The first death looks like it was just due to me sending him in before his stats updated correctly, but the second one is most DEFINITELY a bug. When I zoned into the Molten Front from Hyjal the first thing I did was eagle eye up to where Deth spawns, which of course dismounted me and pulled my turtle out. I just recreated this as a test. He stayed at 7k HP after cast eagle eye, after I canceled my eagle eye, once I mounted up, and all the way up into the widows clutch once again. I even dismounted in the widows clutch and stood around for a few minutes and it never went up from 7k. I sent him in after a spider and he got gibbed the same as before, stats never updated to push him up to the 104k HP he really has. I'm going to put together a short video to try and show what i'm talking about

[Novikova]

I know that for some reason my pet has a serious hate on for molten behemoths and will go after them even if she's low on health. If I just summoned her, SPLAT!

[Acherontia]

Yeah, they do an AoE stomp that will aggro pets.

I'd guess that the 3k+4k hits are just enough to explain a buggy, slow pet HP scaling : / Keep an eye while you're mounted, hopefully you haven't found a bug where they just DON'T scale o.o

[Novikova]

There is a LOT of AoE flying around the molten front I've noticed. :/ The dogs and elementals have fire aura, there's puddles of lava and giants stomping about. And if you're on a pvp server ...

[Shade]

It happens a lot to me. If you search the WoW Bug Report forums for 'Hunter pet death' you will find a lot of topics on it.

One player's explanation is thus: "Technically not a bug, it's lag. Pets spawn with their default health, then polls the server for their master's stats. This takes a couple of seconds. It wasn't as noticeable before since mobs didn't often one-shot pets."

Either way, I see it happen often enough with my pets. If you wait for a moment after dismounting (or reviving the pet from death) to send them back into the fray you should be alright.

[Kokiron]

Yeah, they do an AoE stomp that will aggro pets.

I'd guess that the 3k+4k hits are just enough to explain a buggy, slow pet HP scaling : / Keep an eye while you're mounted, hopefully you haven't found a bug where they just DON'T scale o.o

I believe I actually have, go check the post I made before this one