This is a critical bug that if it goes live will be a very big problem for any Warlock player who has this issue. I can’t create posts in the “in development” forum thus created here for visibility. I’ve reported this multiple times in game but have no indication it is being addressed. I can provide screenshots.
The bug: Occasionally when re-summoning a pet, the demon will lose its name and forget all spells except for Rank 1 (Firebolt, Torment, etc). Essentially, the pet is lost and a new one is summoned.
Why it happens: I don’t know. I’ve tried multiple methods to discover a consistent way it occurs and have failed. It seems to happen most often when the pet is killed but I’ve also had it occur when I relog, die myself, summon another pet, etc. The one way I have found that ensures it does not summon a new pet with no spells is to dismiss.
I have spoken to other Warlock players who have experienced this bug, although most do not report it occurring as frequently. I have personally spent at least 20 gold re-buying spells on my imp alone at level 30. Translate this to level 60 and it will quickly bankrupt any player experiencing this bug on live release.
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Were you in combat when you resummoned?
Generally no. I’ve probably experienced this the most times summoning the imp in Orgrimmar.
I haven’t noticed this one yet myself, but I also stopped my lock at 21 to do a run through for my rogue.
I’ll keep an eye out for it, however, and thanks for the heads up…
As for your pet changing names There was a way to do that EVENTUALLY, but I don’t recall it being in vanilla itself…I’d wager whatever is causing that, is also causing you to lose spell ranks on your pet, given the things I’ve been learning about the UI (On the assumption that the specific pet is working like an item, it would have a modifier added to it for each spell rank learned not unlike each item potentially having a modifier added to it for an enchant). So when your pet is changing names, you’re swapping to a different pet that never learned the spell rank, like getting two Arcanite reapers, and only enchanting one of them with crusader.
From where I am sitting, if the demon is summoned with a new name, that would indicate that the game thinks the player is summoning a particular demon for the first time - which would also explain why all the spells start at rank 1.
So my guess would be that the saved information for a demon is getting screwed up somehow and the game, not knowing what to do with the screwed up data, just starts over with a new demon.
Sounds like a pretty terrible bug.
This has happened twice now to me. It wasn’t fixed with the latest patch.
IIRC, the steps that occurred were:
- Summoned Voidwalker in Org.
- Purchased a new Voidwalker ability and trained it.
- With the Voidwalker still summoned, used the ‘Summon Succubus’ skill.
- Purchased a new Succubus ability and trained it.
- Went to Org flight path, flew to Thousand needles. (at which point my Voidwalker was despawned iirc, because when I landed, I had no pet out)
- After landing in Freewind Post, ran to the lift, and summoned my Voidwalker while descending.
- Noticed my Voidwalker only had Rank 1 Torment available.
- Summoned a Succubus (which had retained all of its skills) and proceeded to quest for an hour without the Voidwalker.
- Flew back to Orgrimmar. Summoned my Voidwalker. Trained each missing ability by purchasing the max rank available (I was level 33 at the time).
- Ran out of Org and took the Zeppelin to Undercity.
10 . Summoned my Succubus and noticed that, now, all of its skills were missing!
Just went back to Org and retrained all of my succubus skills, this time dismissing each pet manually before summoning the next. They seem to have retained their skills this way, so far.
Can you guys not post on the Beta test forums? I don’t see a thread about it there.
OP stated he can not.
Terrible bug. Needs to get fixed.