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WARNING: COTW BUGFollow

#1 Apr 08 2009 at 9:57 AM Rating: Decent
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Yes, in all caps. It's that important/scary.

Because Call of the Wild currently does 2 things.
1: it gives you +10% of your melee attack power, 100 yard range.
2: it gives you +10% of your ranged attack power, 20 yard range

So if you are more than 20 yards from your pet you will see the buff icon but you won't get the benefit of it.

It is likely that this bug has been in effect since 3.0.8, or maybe even before that.
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#2 Apr 08 2009 at 11:29 AM Rating: Decent
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Thanks for the info.

Bummer, does Blizz have plans to fix that anytime soon? Or is this 'breaking news' and the QQing hasn't yet started on the official forums?

Edited, Apr 8th 2009 12:32pm by ItsaGaAs
#3 Apr 08 2009 at 11:46 AM Rating: Decent
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For as far as I know, it's been discovered and confirmed on EJ a few days ago so I doubt many people are aware of this yet.
People have however posted Bug reports on the PTR forums.
Hopefully Blizzard will fix this, it should be easy to just set the range of CotW to 100 yards too.
#4 Apr 08 2009 at 12:28 PM Rating: Good
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His Excellency Aethien wrote:
For as far as I know, it's been discovered and confirmed on EJ a few days ago so I doubt many people are aware of this yet.
People have however posted Bug reports on the PTR forums.
Hopefully Blizzard will fix this, it should be easy to just set the range of CotW to 100 yards too.
I saw that on EJ. Likely it's just a simple error from when they swapped it to only affect the hunter and the pet. A bit of a weird one, but these things happen. It'll get fixed I'm sure. All my testing was done on the dummies in the PTR with the wolf to test furious howl, and I was withing 20 yards so I never noticed it.
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#5 Apr 08 2009 at 2:23 PM Rating: Excellent
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0.o

though actually, I think I had noticed that, but figured it was because I was getting a buff from somewhere else or something. Good to know, I guess I'll just keep my wolf next to me when I pop my cooldowns.
#6 Apr 08 2009 at 11:38 PM Rating: Decent
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It's been fixed on the PTR now, so with 3.1 we'll be fine Smiley: smile
#7 Apr 09 2009 at 3:32 AM Rating: Decent
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wow, I was going to post about how they will fix it when they fix they cower/prowl bug in 21341234 years but I assume this was an easy fix and the other is complicated.
#8 Apr 09 2009 at 4:30 AM Rating: Decent
I'm surprised this wasn't picked up earlier.

Look at the spell on Wowhead:
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53434

It even lists the radius as 20 yards there.
#9 Apr 09 2009 at 4:31 AM Rating: Decent
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Nah they'll fix the cower/prowl bug at the same time they remove the stomp from core hounds and allow us to abandon pets from the stable.

Which should be within the next 5 years as they announced those changes/fixes ~5 months ago.
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