My BM hunter doesn’t seem to get loot from bosses (and likely trash mobs) a lot of the time. I’m using her to farm for the collector’s bounty and probably 1/5 bosses I kill aren’t lootable (the boss doesn’t have the shimmering loot indicator and I can’t click on it) and I get no loot in the mail. It seems to happen more often when I land the first hit and less often when my beasts land the first hit. It appears to be a tagging issue where it’s tagging me ineligible to loot. This is a HUGE bug bc I may have missed being able to loot mounts. Please please fix this!
A lot of older content will deny you the loot as a BM hunter if your pet one-shots the target. Kill command is the devil.
I recommend setting your pet to its passive setting (or dismiss it entirely), then hammer serpent sting or multishot. I recommend avoiding barrage as it has its own bugs.
It’s not just pet, if I use one of my ability shots and it one shots the boss, I often don’t get loot either.
I understand that, but in my play-style, I usually switch to a melee weapon like a 1H axe or 1H sword for most old content. A habit left over from vanilla days when guns and bows had a minimum and maximum range. I suppose that is not something anyone coming into WoW after Wrath of the Lich King might have ever had to deal with.