Cower BugFollow

Last few days I've somethimes noticed my combat text (SCT in my case) saying: 'Resisted (Cower)', wich is odd, since I never use cower. So I started paying attention to it, and I found that Cower would just sometimes be put on auto-cast, wich seemed to be quite random too.

So I ticketed a GM today, who said it was a known issue and they were working on it.

It's kind of annoying since I don't have Cower on my petbar, because there simply isn't any room left for it. I also realized that standard combat text doesn't say when a Cower gets resisted (does it?). So, when soloing, you might want to check your pet spellbook every now and then till it's fixed. ;)

I wonder if all the gms that have been contacted by this are banging there heads against the wall screaming....when will the madness end! I hate the bug. You can turn cower off in your spell book but watch it. He'll still use it lol funny

Just put the following line in your shot macro and never worry about it again:
/petautocastoff Cower

Alternately keep cower on your pet's button bar along the bottom of your screen. If you have it visible there and turn it off, the game will remember its off. If however you merely turn cower off in the pet skills pop-up window, the next time your pet disappears when you mount up, etc. cower will mysteriously turn on. You'll have to open up that window and turn it off again.

This is what i have been doing from day one and it works for me , same for stealth mode , so far all i have done is make sure those two are in the action bar and it stops any problems.

Cower is used in instances; it prevents your pet from pulling aggro, though I can't think of many instances that a pet would pull aggro. The only time I could really think, is when you are trying to DPS an add (such as Curator's sparks, or Mana-Tomb Prince's orbs, etc) that you don't want your pet tanking. It is also useful if you are kiting mobs/objects and you want the said mob going after you (who is running around spamming shots while your pet chases and DPS's it). The pet will use cower, to reduce its threat, to make sure it doesn't get hit.

Prowl is used for mainly PvP; if you are a Night Elf, this combination can be deadly in the right applications. Get a cat, and go sit in some room, say a Tower in AV, or the Flag Base in WSG, or at the flag in a EotS/AB node, use Shadowmeld and Prowl, and wait for some poor sucker to come on by, not expecting an ambush. Two hunters doing this can really ruin someone's day; pick off the pesky healer before he can have time to throw heals on the DPS class with him, for example.

It could also have solo applications, if you are breaking into some cave/area with aggressive mobs, and you see a patrol that you don't really want to fight, shadowmeld and set your pet to prowl, and let the patrol walk on by.

I noticed the same thing when I was using my cat.
I never seldom pull aggro from him using auto or steady shots.
I finally said to heck with it, moved growl (which is always on) from the pet bar and put cower on the bar.
Now I can just turn cower off when it autocasts.
Simple solution to an irritating, but small, issue.
When they fix the bug, I'll put growl back on for easy access while running instances.

My pet problems have been serious since the patch. My cat will randomly charge mobs in instances (not fun!), switch from passive/defensive to aggressive, prowl when I don't want it to (of course), and sometimes he won't stay on target. The worst part is--it's all random! Sometimes he's fine, sometimes he randomly charges & aggros! Also, has anyone else had a problem with auto-targeting? After I kill something (sometimes with nothing else in range), I will automatically target another beast/human/whatever. I accidentally drew aggro this way in Steamvault. Please, Blizzard, fix this stuff quickly!!!!!!!!

Yeah, if putting prowl and cower in the pet action bar and turning them off is not working, its probably something more systemic. If on a Mac, run Disk Utility to repair permissions. If on a PC run your hard drive's error check.