Cower Issues...Follow

Yes!
I hate it!

It also seems to occasionally do it whenever I swap out my pet or dismiss and call it back.
I'm starting to get in the habit of making sure its turned off before I start questing.

You know you can have pet skills NOT on the pet bar but still on autocast?

Just right click them in the spell book.

I do this on my cat with the focus dump because i always want it on.

I do the same thing, let prowl be my warning. Also, I didn't have a problem with it for a while but just the last couple days it started turning itself back on everytime I would dismount.

And Malevolent, the problem we are having is that even after we click off the autocast for cower and prowl, it automatically gets turned back on for various reasons. One would think this would be an easy fix for blizz but what do I know.

Yeah. I have no need for cower when not in a group--I would appreciate it NOT turning back on.

I'm using a bear atm (and soon a monkey), so I don't get any hints. :'(

Unfortunately, charge seems to be immune to this effect (I keep that off as well).

Leave the abilities you want turned on in the pet tab and put the abilities like prowl and cower on your bar like other informed people have mentioned many times now and you can all rest easy.

Or you can completely ignore the advise and continue to post about it...

Ah, that IS a good idea.

The annoying part is that I cannot watch the cooldown, but that shouldn't be a problem once I get a monkey...

Gorilla > All as far as levelling goes.
Especially if you have 3/3 longevity.

Wish I had 2 piece T5, I've heard of hunters pulling 20+ mobs with this.

I have been told by a friend, who had a LENGTHY discussion with a GM, that regardless of where you place the pet ability icon (spellbook or pet action bar), between levels 30 and 40 (IIRC) there IS a bug and there is not much that can be done about it.

I noticed the same thing, actually. I tamed a low-level pet, which jumped to level 37 after taming (I was 42 at the time), and it promptly started to phase in and out of both Cower and Prowl when I took a taxi, or hearthed. Nothing I did would stop it. Once that pet hit level 40, it stopped doing it. Completely. Issue solved.

If other people having this persistant problem are between level 30 and 40, please, confirm it for the community, so that at least we have SOME sort of fact.

I CAN, however, assure you that all of my hunters presently above level 40 have absolutely NO issue at all with abilities re-engaging which have been turned off from "auto-cast" as long as those abilities have been dragged to the pet action bar. (I have a dozen various hunters, on different servers, with pets from various families)



Edited, Jan 6th 2009 12:38pm by capcanuk

Every pet I have turns cower back on after I fly anywhere, take a flight or log in. Actually, pretty much anything that dismisses and resummons the pet activates this fun little "skill".

No, I think you misunderstood me.

Some people are complaining that even having the offending pet talents on the pet bar, they still activate at every log, hearth, etc...

According to a Tech at Blizzard, THAT particular part of the pet bug is limited (again, according to that person, and from my own experience) to pets between those levels... 30-40, if I recall correctly.

You are absolutely correct in stating that if the bugged pet abilities are not on the pet action bar, at ANY level, they display this bugged behaviour, and that the ONLY way to fix it (a temporary fix, obviously) is to drag them down onto the pet talent bar.

Well i have 3 Hunters in the levels 30-40 and one of them has not had a problem with cower/prowl turning on , one has fun with prowl turning on and the other has both cower and prowl turning on at every chance possible.

i always have the cower/prowl in the action bar so the differences between my low level Hunters makes no sense at all , which is why i guess they have not been able to fix it as yet ?.