My Hoplet is level 25 of uncommon quality, but a Flawless Battle-Stone is not working to upgrade it to rare. I was able to use the stones on wild pets, but either the stone isn’t working for this “unique” type pet, or the game thinks it is already of rare quality. The stats on it is of uncommon quality based on wowhead.
I have not tried other unique pets yet, since there aren’t many unique pets to try on.
Unique pets are the same as other pets when it comes to the use of stones.
One thing to check, is the stone you are trying to use a generic Flawless Battle Stone which works on all pets, or e.g. a Flawless Mechanical Battle Stone (or some other specific type) that only works on one family of pets. They look the same, only the tooltip text tells them apart.
Hoplet is Rare by default, all store or promotion pets are.
When you click on her, what color is her name in your target frames?
It was definitely the non-type-specific stone, especially considering I had just bought it from the AH and more than triple checked, and then it worked on a wild pet of a flying type (when I didn’t own a flying stone). The item gives the visual effect of being used, but nothing about the Hoplet pet changes.
The pet is green quality, and its stats also match what it shows for uncommon on Wowhead. I see on warcraftpets that it’s supposed to be rare as its base quality, but what I have most certainly is not. Looks like a bug to me.
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warcraftpets[dot]com/wow-pets/magic/miscellaneous/hoplet/
If you say all promo pets are rare, I think there are other pets in this same boat showing up as uncommon.
I should mention this is on MoP classic prepatch.
What pet support addons are you using? A couple of prominent pet battles addons have a persistent bug of visibly downgrading pet quality in certain UI elements, so that a rare pet looks like an uncommon.
I have tried with all addons disabled, same thing. It shows as green in the pet journal. In fact, the tooltip shows white instead of a color like the other pets of colored quality. And as I mentioned, the stats don’t match the rare quality stats either.
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Not sure what else I can do to prove. Pretty sure this is not intended and is a bug. It should either be rare as base, or be upgradeable. Right now it’s just stuck at uncommon.
Looking at other “Unique” pets from promos/shop, such as Glub and Timbered Air Snakelet, they are also uncommon even though someone here says they should all be rare.
This isn’t conclusive. Temporarily remove all addons.
Step 6 is the step where you temporarily remove addons by renaming their parent folder (Interface) and allowing WoW to rebuild it with standard scripts.
It’s reversible by deleting the folders created anew by WoW and renaming all the “*old” folders from Step 6 back to their original names.
This still doesn’t work, deleted all those folders, etc. I’m certain this is not a client side issue, when all signs point otherwise, such as the stats/damage output not matching the rare stats.
There is another bug post that also discusses stones not working on some pets.
I am having the same issue, plus a bit more. I summoned my little hoplet and when i mouse over him or click on it it shows a level 85 companion
I have an uncommon hoplet as well and it has different abilities than what is posted online. For instance in the second slot it has moon tears as the only option as it is both the level 2 and 15 ability, and as the 3rd slot ability, nibble is not an option, instead I have a strong self heal. I have not tried to upgrade it to rare as I don’t have one of the stones.
I also have this issue, Hoplet, Glub, Joyous, Lil Wrathion and Cypress are all uncommon for me - I also tried to use an upgrade stone on Glub and it did not work, but it also did not consume the stone.
my lil’ wrathion upgraded fine, but i’ve now run into the issue of my joyous not upgrading and the tooltip for it shows it as an 85 pet companion, something tells me that might be preventing it from consuming the stone.