I have tried this both with Dash and Dive. Tamed a cat with dash, used it until I learned it and it was added to Beast Training, then stabled this pet and pulled out my main cat. Level is high enough (32) and have plenty of talent points (21), however clicking to learn Dash does nothing. No error, and the text is white, but nothing happens.
The same happened when I tried to teach my Windserpent Dive. Right level, plenty of points, nothing.
It would appear that the game client has a bug where if a pet which qualifies to learn one of these two abilities does not have it when they are tamed, then they can NEVER learn it, which is clearly not intended behavior.
Other abilities like Bite and Claw work fine.
EDIT:
To test this I have stabled and withdrawn my pet, tried teaching it with and without abandoning the pet I learned the ability from, and even taming a completely new cat already at level 33.
I also completely exited and reloaded the game, as well as disabling every single addon.
Would appreciate a heads-up on Blizz from this one as the pets with the skins I want to keep are not able to learn one of the core abilities.
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Here is a video illustrating the bug. As you can see I have learned Dive and Dash from other pets, have the needed level and points on the pets I want to teach it to, but the game just ignores the click altogether.
The amount of training points used by most skills is also bugged, you can train 15 TP skills for 5, for example.
A GM replied that you are only able to have 4 active pet abilities, which is definitely NOT the issue. Had to re-open the ticket with a better explanation.
I made a follow-up video with all abilities deactivated, and completely removed from my pet bar, and showing the pet spell book still having open slots available, and STILL unable to train Dash or Dive.
Hopefully support will look into this a little more closely.
Your pet literally cannot learn more than 4 active abilities at a time period, not just on the bar. Opening another ticket again when they’ve already told you this does nothing, and it’s not a bug…
It is intended that your pet cannot know more than 4 active abilities in vanilla. You have to untrain if you wish to teach your pet dash/dive. Your video/screenshots merely verify that it is indeed the issue you are running in to. Unfortunately, your pet can only have 4 active abilities.
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I have sorted this out now, thanks. It never occurred to me to check with the pet trainer for un-training abilities, since you don’t learn these abilities from them in the first place. Also in my entire 14+ years of playing WoW and many hunters along the way, I have literally never had to un-train pets that way to learn other abilities, at least not that I recall. But it definitely works, and I can teach them Dash/Dive once I unlearned Cower, and so all is now right with the world… of Warcraft.
So for any other hunters who might hit this problem, your pet can only know 4 active abilities in its book at once, so if you want them to know different ones than they came with, you have to visit a pet trainer and, with the pet in question out and following you, ask them to reset their abilities. It costs more coin each time you do it (10s to start).
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pets can’t learn more than 4 skills.
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that’s because learned rank costs count towards rank ups.
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Does the lvl of your pet effect the amount of skills he can learn? My pet is only level 40 (Im 45) ive taught him claw and dash, but he cant learn prowl for some reason. It doesn’t even show as an available ability. The other cat that has prowl is in my stable.
I do not have 4 active abilities been trying to get dash for my boar tamed a cat learned prowl in 2 mins now 2 days later it will not give me dash I have retamed a few times …
I have the same problem I haven’t had 4 abilities then the same thing happens
Boars can not learn dash. I would advise you to look up petopia classic for more detailed info on pets.