So my BM hunter with Animal Companion skill has been having issues with the animal companion not changing. I wish I could attach the screenshot I have to go with this. I got a boar when I made this hunter in the island tutorial. This boar will summon as the along with my called pet. This boar is not slotted as an active pet. No pet I set in slot one is called. Just this boar every time.
Is the pet you want to be called as the animal companion in the first slot in your stable? The stable, not the slots available for your call pets.
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This sounds like what Moonphyre just said. The AC pet is whichever pet is in the very first slot of the Stable. If you place it in the active pets list it will never show up as the AC pet.
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Yes, I just want a second raptor, and I have one in the first slot of my active slots. The boar is in the inactive slots with a few others.
Even in the inactive slot it still summons as the AC. I have tried changing specs, redoing talents, and reloading the UI multiple times but nothing seems to work. This has been so frustratingly weird. My old BM hunter didn’t have this weird bug.
the absolute very first slot of your inactive pet stable (red box) will be the pet that is called as your animal companion talent.
as this has caused a lot of confusion, i think that slot should have an extra visual or a label or something to help players unfamiliar w how it works.
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How does one place an animal in the first slot in the stable when they are sorted by type? I thought it was the first slot on the active animals. I will have to try this because nothing else I have tried has made any difference!
The stable has changed since this was posted. It is impossible to force an animal into the first slot in the stable because there is no “unsorted” option. I tried this and all I get is NO animal companion! When I get an animal companion it is ONLY my named white bear, Bjarn, from Dun Morogh and it does not matter what slot he is in in the stable or the active animals.
I posted this and then I found this post https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/animal-companion-skill-bugged/1487238/8 where someone pasted a screen shot of the new stable, explained how it works and that this is fixed!
It would be really nice if Blizzard had someone who actually answered bug reports with a date on which they were fixed so everyone would know that the devs really do care and are doing their jobs. Thanks for fixing this devs!
The stable HAS changed since the previous post, you are correct. Now at the bottom of the stable window will first be five slots followed by an arrow pointing to a single slot. The first five slots are for your active pets and the single slot after the arrow is for your AC pet.
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Ty. They don’t trust me to post pictures. 
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Thanks for posting this.
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