[BUG] Hunter pets from pre-cata can sometimes spawn bugged and do no damage

[ToxicKevinFerm]

1. Current Behavior

1.1. Description

Sometimes (not always) a pet that was caught during Wrath or earlier will spawn in a bugged state with 7-8k HP and do a lot less damage than if it had spawned correctly. We very much like that the HP "hopping" when called is gone, and hope it isn't related to this bug.

We suggest people tame new pets in Cata currently, however I believe there is a big part of the community that doesn't read those messages and so are potentially left with bugged pets.

1.2. How to Reproduce

       1. Have a pet from Wrath
       2. Spawn and dismiss it until you see it spawn with 8k HP
       3. Hit a dummy

1.3 Source Material

Bugged pet health loss: https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/WwrqfKQX6Lpbg2jT#fight=11&type=resources&source=13 Normal pet health loss: https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/RL92JVZmCnDF143M#fight=13&type=resources&source=15 In here you can also see the difference in damage. Another bugged log: https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/7KznCWytLD3GJPZg#fight=4&type=damage-done&source=11 In this first image it is happening on Throne, after the player jumps and the pet is resummoned, it proceeds to do normal damage. And a damage split Video: https://discord.com/channels/253213664708919296/1171712100826087454/1246983504743370823 in the hunter discord

2. Expected Behavior

2.1. Description

A Wrath pet should always spawn and do the same damage as a Cata pet.

[MannySJH]

Small correction in this post, a pet tamed pre cata will consistently spawn with low stats but will quickly return to regular stats outside of raids within a few seconds. The 2nd and destructive part of this bug is this low stat state sometimes gets locked in during raid for some unknown reason resulting in the low dps and hp you're seeing above.

[Artemishowl]

Thank you for the report, creating a ticket.

[Kyznyx]

Something to add to this post that seems to be a recurrence whenever this happens to one of our hunters - in raids this mainly happens after a wipe (only seen it happen after a wipe). Whenever this occurs, the hunter is also not able to proc Sniper Training - a couple logs to support this: An atramedes wipe with pet & sniper training functioning normally: https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/ALNjkJw9CYmgVByG#fight=11&source=13&type=damage-done https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/ALNjkJw9CYmgVByG#fight=11&source=1&type=auras&ability=64420 An atramedes kill the pull after with both of these being broken: https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/ALNjkJw9CYmgVByG#fight=12&source=13&type=damage-done https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/ALNjkJw9CYmgVByG#fight=12&source=1&type=auras&ability=64420

After this, in the same log, the pet issue was still active on the upcoming boss (Chimaeron) and fixed after as the hunter died and resummoned their pet.

In this next log from about a month ago, the same thing happens - everything works fine on maloriak wipe, after wiping and ressing both sniper training and pet gets bugged. Both sniper training and pet damage remains bugged for atramedes and chimaeron wipe & kill after. Somehow gets fixed for Nefarian but the raid is from too long ago to remember the specifics of how it could've gotten fixed. https://classic.warcraftlogs.com/reports/rHxBNLvmZVMtC9GA

Hope you find this helpful in any way.

[MannySJH]

This is fixed now