WoW Petopia Community

Does anyone know when this happened and if any other large pets were affected?

Added a direhorn minipet for size

What do you mean "massive shrink"? If that's how big it is now, how big did it used to be? o.O

My Hati is the size it used to be.

Ohh. I see. I thought the gigantic one was the pet, but it's Hati.

No idea when they did it, though.

Still huge on the loading screan tho

....there is a baby direhorn we can tame? Where?

Unfortunately Talihawk, the baby direhorn was an exploit that some of us abused in the pre-launch event before Legion. You could be given a debuff that let neutral and friendly NPCs attack you. Folks found a way to take it to a baby direhorn that was mislabeled since Mists of Pandaria as tameable, but it was friendly. Because you were hostile to literally everything, you could tame the direhorn in a very short window. It's impossible to obtain now, both due to the buff not being available and the NPC being flagged as untameable.

As for its size, I wish mine would shrink. I love the little (big) thing, but I hate having it out in dungeons for two reasons; it's too big, Hati is too big, and people will complain. I always put it away and swap to something else when I go into a dungeon, just so people aren't annoyed.

Actually I think the shrink is a good thing - it means you're getting to keep your very rare pet, just in a size that won't get in the way for other players.

Ah bummer!

I dunno, I kinda like it all tiny and non-threatening now. Imagine seeing your tiny direhorn of doom tanking some big dragon or something. :3

Oh, damn! I wish I'd thought about this.

I wonder if the debuff would have worked in an instance. There's ghostly wolves in Mount Hyjal that were marked as tameable (but friendly). D:

? Mine is exactly the same, no shrink at all. I think you may have picked up an errant debuff or a GM targeted you for specific shrinking.

I've noticed sometimes in raids my Direhorn will shrink a little (about as tall as a Tauren instead of the Mammoth mount) but if I dismiss and summon him, it goes back to normal.

Perhaps try entering an arena or timewalking with him? Otherwise I think a GM ticket is your only hope - could try abandoning him and then petitioning a GM for restoration, but that's risky!

Yeah, when I'd heard about the exploit, it'd already been patched. I was thinking of trying to bag an armored black rylak from Shadowmoon Valley.