there is a stuck in combat glitch going on when i am on my hunter i cannot FD out of it unless i die but once i fight again i get the same issue over and over again.
If your pet is still in combat when you FD, it will very often keep you in combat. As a bm hunter, your pet will generate way more threat/aggro than you and it’s good when things want to beat on your pet and ignore you. But when they ignore you, your FD won’t be enough to completely get out of combat.
Having your pet continue to attack while you FD can be a very good thing. FD can be used to break targeting, like when the dino boss in Atal Dazar wants to chase and eat you, FD when he steps towards you and he loses all interest. Meanwhile, your pet continues to damage the boss. Also works to break channeled spells.
Obviously it’s annoying when you just want to mount up and ride into the sunset. For that, you need your pet to Play Dead.
https://www.wowhead.com/item=136780/pet-training-manual-play-dead
Gives you Play Dead and Wake Up for all your pets. When you use Play Dead, your pet does it’s own version of Feign Death. While it’s “dead”, it will not respond to any command except Dismiss Pet and Wake Up. If you use it in the middle of combat without realizing it your pet will stop attacking and all aggro it had will revert to you.
To get out of combat
- Feign Death
- Play Dead
- Wait for the combat indicator to drop (like 2 seconds)
- Clear your target in case you have something that triggers an attack automatically on your target.
- Then use Wake up (Play Dead on your action bar will automatically become Wake up)
- If necessary click, the Pet Follow to make it run back to you and ideally away from stuff that wants to kill you. Most things will ignore your pet even though they were attacking it 3 seconds ago
- Then get going yourself.