When I try to link a mount, a seemingly random string of letters appears on the text window instead. Trying to send the message either gives me an error message in guild chat, or emotes “something unintelligible” on regular chat. The mount link does not appear on either chat.
I can link items, spells, pets, transmog, heirlooms, quests and toys, but not mounts from the mount collection interface.
I tried reloading the chat, reloading the game, toggling “Interactive Chat” on and off several times, changing zones, etc. Nothing worked so far.
I have no addons installed.
The issue happens on my Draenei Warlock. My Undead Death Knight can link mounts in chat normally.
You may still wish to reset your interface regardless. Elements can corrupt over time as is just the nature of technology, creating new ones from scratch can at least rule out a good number of other possibilities.
Right click the chat tab and make sure it’s interactive (if make noninteractive is listed as an option, then it’s interactive). This sounds like the behavior that would result when you try to link something in a noninteractive chat window.
Well it isn’t because the same thing is happening to my Druid…even on an old laptop that I haven’t used for WoW in years. You’re telling me two different systems, years apart in settings and addons, are having the exact same UI issue?
This laptop, you did a fresh install or you updated an old install? I am not sure how much of the system involves server side vs client side data. If both UI’s have fresh reset interfaces, then the next step is the bug report forum.
Just wanted to add… that if you view the wowhead link on a particular mount, you can click the “links” button above the mount’s image. This drop down will show three options to link a mount for web sites and in chat. The best I can tell you to do, is try each one of those links to see if any of them are displayed in chat. However this could be something Blizzard disabled due to bots flooding gold buying spam.
I found a solution to this issue after trying countless other methods and having no success, the following method worked finally. Type these 2 console commands 1 at a time in the following order:
My wonderful friend shared this with me the other day and finally solved this problem after 6+ months of not being able to link mounts.
As far as I can tell, it didn’t have any other side effects whatsoever. The only thing it appears to have done is fixed the mount linking issue, so don’t worry about this breaking anything.
I don’t think blizzard is aware that this is NOT a UI issue. It is associated with the individual character and will persist regardless of changes to UI.
One of the many things I tried while trying to fix this was to install Wow fresh on a different computer with no add-ons and the default interface and it still had the issue. Also it was only on certain characters at first and then it slowly spread across my account.
It’s possible that the issue might be initiated by a faulty add-on or interface bug, but the solution does not lie in resetting the UI. It seems as though something (perhaps a faulty add-on) can trigger something server-side, which then prevents the linking of mounts until these console commands are run to reset the values server-side back to their defaults.
Whether the issue will then recur in the future may depend on UI and add-ons, but critically the actual fix is not dependent on them.
