[BUG] Pets are being spawned automatically in arena/bgs

[JamminL]

1. Current Behavior

1.1. Description

When you join arena, pets (hunter, warlock, mage, dk) that were up when they clicked enter arena/bg will automatically spawn inside arena after loading screen.

This won't matter for most pet classes, but for frost mages, this means they get to have two pets instantly at the start of the game. It was a typical strategy to kill the mage's pet early on, as he'd not have another water elemental for 2 minutes after gates open.

2. Expected Behavior

2.1. Description

Pets are despawned the moment you press "Enter arena"

2.2 Source Material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoKgrX7u-nI (0:00) you can see water elemental on mage party frames, but when he joins, he has to cast to summon it.

[JamminL]

Seems to be fixed for mage water elemental

[JamminL]

Partially fixed

[Cataclassic]

Seems to be fixed for mage water elemental

https://clips.twitch.tv/CorrectSnappyChinchillaHumbleLife-H4FMmjRFdu6wzuiT

Hi Jammin.

Please look, it's not fixed for water elementals. Mages can still exploit it if they enter arena from the mount

[JamminL]

Seems to be fixed for mage water elemental

https://clips.twitch.tv/CorrectSnappyChinchillaHumbleLife-H4FMmjRFdu6wzuiT

Hi Jammin.

Please look, it's not fixed for water elementals. Mages can still exploit it if they enter arena from the mount

Yeap that's why it was re-opened - didn't specify because of the exploitative nature but it's widely known at the moment

[Artemishowl]

This is a duplicate to a mage issue I opened yesterday, keeping an eye out for now

[diamondsprings]

to be clear, if you're talking about #1412, are the two issues not practically opposites? this issue suggests mage pets should despawn upon entering arena/bg while the other one suggests they shouldn't (though that one did not mention arena).

this one uses arena footage as source material while the other one uses battleground footage, perhaps it behaves different in the two? it's also possible that #1412 was affected by the same bug we're currently experiencing (joining while mounted does not despawn the pet), though it has incomplete footage because it starts after they are already inside the battleground so it's hard to say exactly what happened there.

if they aren't supposed to be spawned in for arenas i think a compromise for bgs would probably be reasonable though

[Artemishowl]

Yee I want to say theyre symptoms of each other, which is fine we'll keep both issues open but I think they're going to systemically be fixed together.