Hunter Beta Issues Update

Greetings!

Going into the Pre-Launch test today we wanted to take a moment and edit the original post above with an additional status update.

I’ve added the following to the Not A Bug and Confirmed Fixed sections:

Not A Bug:

• The rate at which pet focus regenerates is not always consistent
  • Note: While the actual amount of focus that can be generated per tick is inconsistent, the total amount generated over time is flat and consistent. There are slight variations in the time between ticks that cause this to display inconsistently.
• Pet aggro radius is working properly and as expected. This is to say, it was extremely inconsistent in original WoW, and it remains inconsistent in WoW Classic

Confirmed Fixed:

• Attacking in melee cancels the hunter’s active Auto Shot timer
  • Note: This remains a high skill-cap maneuver, but using a melee attack while an Auto Shot timer is active, then re-enabling Auto Shot for a ranged attack should be much more responsive now and should no longer completely reset the Auto Shot timer
• When a Quiver or Ammo Pouch is equipped, the tooltip for Aimed Shot incorrectly reflects an attack speed bonus from the Quiver or Ammo Pouch that it does not actually receive
• The Hunter’s quiver may occasionally appear in the Hunter’s hand instead of the Hunter’s equipped weapon
• There is a slight delay on Hunter and Warlock pet’s auto-cast abilities
• The Auto Shot sound and animation will cycle each time you change targets while Auto Shot is active
• Hunter’s Mark can stack on a target with different ranks of Improved Hunter’s Mark
• Multi-shot can hit totems
• Hunter pet abilities are not automatically populated to the pet bar when trained
• Eagle Eye and Farsight abilities will fail if targeted on a location that is more than 100 yards from the player

Greetings!

Since the beginning of beta, we’ve seen a lot of bug reports around the Hunter class in particular, and we’ve been working diligently over the past weeks to shore up some of the issues that players have been reporting to us. We felt that it would be helpful to post an update on our progress as well as to clear up some confusion around issues that were reported that are behaving consistently with the Reference client and are not considered to be actual bugs.

The following issues are behaving as expected and are considered to be “Not a Bug” (we’ll be updating the Not A Bug list with these issues as well):

• Hunter “dead zone” is working as expected and is consistent with the Reference Client
• A wolf pet’s Howl buff is consumed by anything that causes damage, even if it does not benefit from the buff
• A Hunter pet’s Bite and Claw ability damage will not change in the tooltip based on the happiness of the pet. The tooltip will always display the damage as if the pet were Content (yellow). This is consistent with the Reference client
  • Note: This was reported several times to us based on 1.2 patch notes which seem to have been misunderstood. The intent here is simply that damage displayed is what the pet would deal if it were Content, not what it deals based on its current happiness level.
• Traps can sometimes not be triggered if a player moves over them very quickly (i.e. a Warrior’s Charge ability). This behavior is consistent with the Reference client.
• Auto Shot does not make a sound when cast during the animation of Hunter’s Mark and certain other abilities
• Scatter Shot, Wyvern Sting, and Freezing Trap share diminishing returns
• A Hunter’s Frost Trap ground effect will break players out of stealth
• The rate at which pet focus regenerates is not always consistent.
  • Note: While the actual amount of focus that can be generated per tick is inconsistent, the total amount generated over time is flat and consistent. There are slight variations in the time between ticks that cause this to display inconsistently.
• Pet aggro radius is working properly and as expected. This is to say, it was extremely inconsistent in original WoW, and it remains inconsistent in WoW Classic

The following reported issues are either confirmed fixed in recent builds, or we have upcoming fixes currently in testing:

• Crocolisk pets cause noticeable server lag when summoned
• Beast lore does not display the targeted creatures armor in the tooltip
• Feign death does not immediately drop the Hunter from combat in a Battleground
• Feign Death does not cause the Hunter’s health and mana bar to zero out as if the Hunter was dead
• Feign Death does not kill the hunter if they stay feigned the entire duration
• Hunters are performing a WalkBackwards animation while strafing left during Auto Shot
• Hunters have the ability to tame pets 2 levels higher than the Hunter’s level
• Hunter Pets do not auto-cast Dash or Dive when engaging their target
• The Bonus Armor from Thick Hide is dropping off of Hunter pets shortly after talenting into it
• Sending Hunter pets into combat with a special ability such as Bite does not also trigger your pet to begin attacking
• Multiple instances of Hunter’s Mark can be applied to a target
• Hunters are unable to cancel the animation associated with placing a trap by moving
• Explosive Trap and Frost Trap place the hunter into combat each time they apply their associated effects or deal damage
• Enemies will ignore collision when in combat with a player
  • Note: This isn’t hunter specific and was a global issue. This did affect Hunter pets so we listed it here
• Pets do not display a “ding” visual when leveling up
• Activating a Night Elf Hunter’s Shadowmeld racial ability at the same time that the Eyes of the Beast cast completes will give the player control over pet movement without snapping to the Pet’s point of view
• Ranged attacks cannot be blocked
• Training pets may cause your client to become unresponsive
• The spell animation for flare is significantly different than the animation used in 1.12
• Attacking in melee cancels the hunter’s active Auto Shot timer
  • Note: This remains a high skill-cap maneuver, but using a melee attack while an Auto Shot timer is active, then re-enabling Auto Shot for a ranged attack should be much more responsive now and should no longer completely reset the Auto Shot timer
• When a Quiver or Ammo Pouch is equipped, the tooltip for Aimed Shot incorrectly reflects an attack speed bonus from the Quiver or Ammo Pouch that it does not actually receive
• The Hunter’s quiver may occasionally appear in the Hunter’s hand instead of the Hunter’s equipped weapon
• There is a slight delay on Hunter and Warlock pet’s auto-cast abilities
• The Auto Shot sound and animation will cycle each time you change targets while Auto Shot is active
• Hunter’s Mark can stack on a target with different ranks of Improved Hunter’s Mark
• Multi-shot can hit totems
• Hunter pet abilities are not automatically populated to the pet bar when trained
• Eagle Eye and Farsight abilities will fail if targeted on a location that is more than 100 yards from the player

Please note that this list is not comprehensive. There have been many other issues that affect hunters that have been fixed recently, and we are still hard at work fixing other bugs.

The following issues have been confirmed as bugs and are still Known Issues as of our current build:

• Auto Shot does not animate or display a missile when it fires immediately after Aimed Shot
• Aspect of the Pack will sometimes attempt to apply itself to mounted party members
• When taming a pet that teaches the Hunter a new Beast Training ability, the chat message does not report the ability’s rank

We hope to have fixes in place for these issues before launch, but please note that we can never guarantee when or if any known issue will be fixed.

Thank you all for your reports on the WoW Classic Beta so far!