Can someone please tell me when the change to BM hunter pet “growl” happened so that growl is automatically turn off in groups?
I’ve been playing a BM hunter for a long time (my favorite class/spec) and at some point in recent history Blizzard made a change so that BM hunter pets “Growl” is automatically turned off in a group if there is a “tank” present. TOO many times since the change I’ve been picked apart (cussed at) by tanks in dungeon PUGs who accuse me of lying for saying that I literally cannot turn taunt (growl) ON in a group with a tank present, its ALWAYS off in a group. Today it happened again, the tank wanted to know when it changed and I could not think of exactly when the change went live but it seems like 4-5 years ago (cannot find it documented on the internet). Can anyone tell me at least what year it changed? I know its been a while.
If Blizzard is watching - this is very Very VERY upsetting for hunters! and I’m sick of being harassed by tanks.
Thanks.
As I recall, they changed this going into BfA. Not entirely sure tho…
They changed it so that Growl is automatically disabled whenever you enter a dungeon/instance. As reported, it’s been a bit glitchy, whether it works as intended, at times.
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Taunt starts off but you can turn it on by clicking it.
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What Hasew said. The tanks telling you that you can turn it on are absolutely correct. Growl auto-cast turns off when you enter the instance, but if you click it on your pet bar, it both casts growl, and turns auto-cast back on (Left click to cast, right click to turn on/off auto-cast). I use it from time to time if the tank gets faceplanted to finish off stuff and/or kite till the tank is back up. Just be sure to turn it back off afterwards or you will pull off the tank.
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Uh no, no this seems to be a you issue. Be really nice if ppl stopped trying to turn their personal problems into a class problem
What tanks are telling you to turn it on, I’ve been doing A LOT of keys and i have yet to be asked to turn on growl
Tanks are NOT telling me to turn growl on, they are accusing me of having growl on and asking me to turn it off (I am always careful that growl is OFF when I’, in groups).
So if you level up (and thus your pet does too) within a dungeon, pet growl will auto turn on. You just have to cycle thru it a couple times to get it turned off again.
Just tested it and didnt have an issue. Maybe an addon?
If you have Mis-Direct to pet Macro’d into your abilities, and the tank damage is really low on AoE, you could pull off the tank… Just thinking out loud. I use an MD pet macro with focus and set focus on the tank, that way I can MD pull and have MD go to my pet if the tank goes down without fussing about with targeting.