Why do hunter pets shrink

Rest assured or be disappointed that you probably won't see them that way for long, and a hotfix is on the way. Mania speculates that the bug may have something to do with the implementation of Papa Hummel's Pet Biscuits , which seems very possible.

Maybe when they messed with the coding to allow pets to grow larger, much like the PTR bug where non-combat pets grew giant , it caused elite pets to grow a bit larger too, or at least not shrink like they should.

Either way, enjoy your new massive pets while you can, Hunters, I'd imagine a hotfix will come either this Tuesday or the next. Sign up. Some Hunter pets not losing size or elite status when tamed. Whether it was on before I mc'ed them or it was applied during the MC. Unsure what might happen if I could get a player Mced who was a beast though.

If I want them all to be smaller it appears I will have to attach a glyph to each and every single pet. This does not make me happy. Comment by stevopotato This can only be applied to the pet in the first slot.

If you're unable to apply this to a particular pet, visit a Stable Master and rearrange your pets accordingly. Comment by ShiroHikari43 Is there any way to remove this effect? Comment by TheCrosshare Currently legion pre-patch applies only to the first pet in your call pet "pop-up" bar.

Seems to do as advertised, added a screenshot as a reference of the size difference not sure when it's up. It, as well as other glyphs, can be removed with dust of disapeparance. Comment by ruthven78 The reduced size applies to all pets, I just tested it. Had thok in my 4th pet slot, applied the glyph to first slot, thok shrunk. Comment by Jenfloofie Keep in mind that this glyph: a. So if you want to run with two matched pets of equal size, this won't work.

As a gnome, I wanted this to work I have a large moth that I like to run with, that is large and obscures my view when fighting sometimes. But since my preferred spec is Beastmaster, and I like to run with matched pets transmogging Hati to match this won't work for me. Comment above says to use Dust of Disappearance, but and I'm not a scribe I think the correct stuff is Vanishing Powder.

Comment by Woundheir The 1st slot only thing was lame, but they should let this apply to the pet itself. Regardless of slot There are some pets that are way too big Trigore, Hexapos, etc and others that don't look right smaller because it sort of crunches their graphic incorrectly.

Comment by somnomania Doesn't appear to be working as intended, in BfA. It looks like it should only affect the pet slot it's applied to, but it's affecting all of my summoned primary pets not the one that comes from the Animal Companion talent.

If that's not how it's supposed to work, I wish they'd update the tooltip to say so. I definitely have some pets I'd like smaller and some not, and that's not based on spec. Comment by selkie47 If you had a gazelle, take in mind the difference is minuscule.

Comment by purr2d2 if you have the beast mastery talent for animal companion it won't reduce their size! View in 3D Links. Quick Facts. This item can be purchased in Dalaran 2. Please keep the following in mind when posting a comment: Your comment must be in English or it will be removed. Unsure how to post? Check out our handy guide!

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If you intend on pulling multiple mobs and having your pet kill one or more of them while you focus on others, it would be best to try to get at least one shot or hit on each of the mobs and then allow your pet to do its work on them.

You can set your pet to Aggressive and have it auto-attack but this is generally not a good idea unless you would like to gain a few levels faster than you normally would in another mode. An aggressive pet will typically draw in additional mobs that you and your party would be unprepared to handle. Failing to control your pet is a sure route to causing a wipe in an instance. The Aggressive setting has somewhat more useful results in a battleground, but optimal use of a pet would be a coordinated attack alongside the Hunter, not off on its own.

Prior to Patch 4. This section concerns content exclusive to Cataclysm. As of Patch 4. This section concerns content exclusive to Mists of Pandaria. There are 23 families of pets for Hunters to tame, with seven of them only available through the Burning Crusade expansion, and two exclusive to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Each family has its own skills, diet , and statistics. Pet families now are divided into the three classes: Cunning , Ferocity , and Tenacity. Ferocity pets are good for continuous damage, tenacity pets make good tanks, and cunning pets have unique abilities which can be very useful in certain situations. All pets of a class share the same stats and the same skill tree. Each pet family has one special skill.

It seems special characteristics that some rare pets used to have were removed. Meat is the easiest food type to obtain, so pets that will only eat meat are not difficult to feed. Obtaining fish is not too much trouble either, as long as you are willing to catch them or you could hunt coastal humanoids, like murlocs , as well.

Pets that will eat neither of these take a little more effort and planning. Dumpster pets, boars and bears, which eat just about anything, are really nice from an inventory management standpoint. You can toss the odd food drops at them. Besides food, however there are now abilities that generate happiness such as Guard Dog and Carrion Feeder. Each pet family has one special skill usually active and further skills can be learned from the pet's skill tree depending on its class.

Most active skills require Focus — a constantly-recharging point pool that works much like a Rogue 's Energy bar. Some active skills are free. Every pet has Focus, and Focus regenerates at a base rate of 5 points per second. An active skill does not have to be in the pet action bar to be used, even on autocast. It is perfectly okay to leave Growl in the spellbook and have it on autocast. From Patch 1. Each skill can only be used by a specific type of pet and the benefit is quite useful, usually in PvE.

This increases the diversity among Hunter's pets and often promotes Hunters possessing several pets at the same time. It is expected that, with time, Blizzard will continue to add special skills to other beasts' types as well.

Pets also level much faster, and gain happiness faster from feeding. Also, the pet's separate experience has been removed from the game and your pet now levels immediately when the hunter levels. Pets below your level gain experience by fighting alongside you as long as the mob killed is green or higher. When the pet reaches the Hunter's level, it stops gaining experience until the Hunter levels up. Pets gain approximately the same experience from kills as an unrested character of the same level, and require a much lower amount of experience to level as a character of the same level.

In the current PTR version of Patch 3. Pets do not benefit from rest , and do not receive any experience from any sources other than kills. If a pet is more than 5 levels below the Hunter, it will immediately gain enough levels to be 5 levels below the Hunter the next time it is active. The pet's available talent points at any given time are determined by its level, with a maximum of 16 reached at level A Beastmaster Hunter can add four more pet talent points with the 51 point talent Beast Mastery.

You can assign the pet talent points in the pet tab of the talent window. Hunter pets can unlearn their talents at Hunter pet trainers without cost. A visual pet calculator is available at Wowhead Petcalc.