Has anyone else noticed a problem with the tame beast spell following the patch

Did it always work that if you had a pet alive but currently dismissed, you would be able to tame a new pet without abandoning the current pet?

Because that is what happened to me tonight.

If you try to tame a new pet whilst your current pet is summoned and active, you get the error message saying that "you have too many already pets already".

However, if you use the spell 'dismiss pet', and then try to tame a new pet, there is no warning, and you end up with a new pet, that abandons the previous pet without no warning.

It should also be noted that if you right click on your pet icon and then click abandon pet, you get the confirmation message that says "are you sure you want to permanently want to abandon your pet?"

Try it and see

If this is the case, then I would say that it is a VERY serious bug.

Are you sure your old pet isn't stabled? Would be extremely weird, but who knows.

No, you have to stable/abandon your current pet to catch a new one... end o story


that's a pretty big bug if you're right

I recommend that you try it...if you don't like your pet.

Have your pet out, then dismiss it (Not abandon it), then tame a new pet., there is no warning about the fact that you will abandon your current pet once you tame your new pet.

I just never seem to remember it working that way..

EDIT: this bug worked for me in both Shadowmoon valley and Terokkar Forest

If it does now, it's a change... in my noob days(a couple months ago) i thought i just had to dismiss to catch a new pet....


it didnt work, needless to say

Post the problem on the bug forums. Blizz doesn't read the hunter forums.

I don't see it as that serious of a problem. If you haven't figured out the proper procedure for taming a new pet by now, you have bigger issues.

If you knew you had a pet out, why were you even trying to get a new one? This is a silly "bug" because if you already have a pet and are getting a new one, and you forget to stable the old one, your just not paying enough attention.

It's a bug for NEW players as well, and they might not fully realize how the procedure should work. I know that would be pretty disheartening, to have a pet, NOT know that you had to stable it, and just dismissed it, only to find that you tamed a new one, and lost your other one forever.

Interesting you should post this...here is what happened to me last night after I patched (note that I have been gone for a couple years, and am back on the BC 14-day trial, so excuse my idiocy!)

I had three pets, I was in Iron forge and dismissed one (an old turtle I was working with). So I only had 2 of my 3 pet slots filled. I took out my cat from the stable, and went to Eastern Plaguelands to get a lvl 60 Boar.

When I got the location of the Boars (all the way West in EP), I dismissed my cat, laid a freeze trap, and tamed a Boar. It was successful and I took him back to Iron Forge with me.

When I went to the stable master, even though I had the Boar out and active, the cat was still showing as my active pet, and the Boar was stabled! I thought that was a little odd. So I moved my Bear over to my active slot, and it placed my cat back in the stable, and my Bear appeared.

At this point, I had no problem bringing any of my three pets (bear, boar or cat) out.

So something is definitely funky, but at least I have all three pets I wanted, and no problems stabling or un-stabling any of them.

I also verified this just now. I'm looking for a post on it in the bug report forum, or I will make one if there isn't one there.

New CC mechanism, tame and dismiss =P

Blizz finally did something about us complaining about needing more stable slots! Dismiss/Tame all the pets you want then Call/Dismiss until you get the pet you want to use atm. Whee!

(joke, dont kill me)

After testing this some more, I think you may actually be right. This may actually be their promised method to learn skills from pets without having to leave a stable slot free.

(If it is, they could have bloody well told us about it.)

Anyway, I've been doing some testing. (You can read the details here: http://petopia.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/tame-beast-bug-or-feature/) Short version is that you can tame pets while you have one active but dismissed, and the dismissed pet will try to go to your stable. If your stable is full, they will .. well, stack up, covering over your older pets. Then you can get at the older pets again by dismissing other pets or buying more stable slots.

I also deleted my Bug Report thread on this. I want it to stay. :>

Just brainstorming other things to test. You dismiss your pet (P1) and tame another one (P2). Fight with P2 and have it die in fight.

Can you use call to get to P1?
When you revive pet which one appears?
When you abandon P2 can you then use call or revive to get to P1?

Just seeing if there is any way to get to both pets "on the field".

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Blizz finally did something about us complaining about needing more stable slots! Dismiss/Tame all the pets you want then Call/Dismiss until you get the pet you want to use atm. Whee!

(joke, dont kill me)

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OMG i could not stop lol i think my coworkers where like whats going on over there.

Those are good test cases. I did try abandoning the new pet (P2) to see if I could then call the old pet (P1), but it was no good -- "You have no pet to summon." I had to go back to the stable to get P1.

Okay, wait wait wait.... Could I, in theory:

Have three pets: [P1][P2][P3]
Have [P1] out.
Dismiss [P1].
Tame [P4].
Abandon [P4]
???


??? = Retrieve [P1] from stables? Retrieve [P2] or [P3] from stables? Keep [P1], [P2], and [P3]?



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Can you call the original pet back if the tame fails? If so, then I'd say this is something we want, say you find something to tame and prematurely dismiss your old pet, then you're vulnerable if you die or have too much aggro around you. I also lost a lvl 70 owl by dismissing it to try to tame one of the birds in Skettis which say 'tamable' but actually aren't.

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Q u o t e:
Okay, wait wait wait.... Could I, in theory:

Have three pets: [P1][P2][P3]
Have [P1] out.
Dismiss [P1].
Tame [P4].
Abandon [P4]
???


??? = Retrieve [P1] from stables? Retrieve [P2] or [P3] from stables? Keep [P1], [P2], and [P3]?



[edited for improper wording]

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Yes, you could do any of those ??? things. I tested those in particular before I posted.