Greetings!

Since the beginning of beta, we’ve seen a lot of bug reports around the Hunter class in particular, and we’ve been working diligently over the past weeks to shore up some of the issues that players have been reporting to us. We felt that it would be helpful to post an update on our progress as well as to clear up some confusion around issues that were reported that are behaving consistently with the Reference client and are not considered to be actual bugs.

The following issues are behaving as expected and are considered to be “Not a Bug” (we’ll be updating the Not A Bug list with these issues as well):

Hunter “dead zone” is working as expected and is consistent with the Reference Client

A wolf pet’s Howl buff is consumed by anything that causes damage, even if it does not benefit from the buff

A Hunter pet’s Bite and Claw ability damage will not change in the tooltip based on the happiness of the pet. The tooltip will always display the damage as if the pet were Content (yellow). This is consistent with the Reference client Note: This was reported several times to us based on 1.2 patch notes which seem to have been misunderstood. The intent here is simply that damage displayed is what the pet would deal if it were Content, not what it deals based on its current happiness level.

Traps can sometimes not be triggered if a player moves over them very quickly (i.e. a Warrior’s Charge ability). This behavior is consistent with the Reference client.

Auto Shot does not make a sound when cast during the animation of Hunter’s Mark and certain other abilities

Scatter Shot, Wyvern Sting, and Freezing Trap share diminishing returns

A Hunter’s Frost Trap ground effect will break players out of stealth

The rate at which pet focus regenerates is not always consistent. Note: While the actual amount of focus that can be generated per tick is inconsistent, the total amount generated over time is flat and consistent. There are slight variations in the time between ticks that cause this to display inconsistently.

Pet aggro radius is working properly and as expected. This is to say, it was extremely inconsistent in original WoW, and it remains inconsistent in WoW Classic

The following reported issues are either confirmed fixed in recent builds, or we have upcoming fixes currently in testing:

Crocolisk pets cause noticeable server lag when summoned

Beast lore does not display the targeted creatures armor in the tooltip

Feign death does not immediately drop the Hunter from combat in a Battleground

Feign Death does not cause the Hunter’s health and mana bar to zero out as if the Hunter was dead

Feign Death does not kill the hunter if they stay feigned the entire duration

Hunters are performing a WalkBackwards animation while strafing left during Auto Shot

Hunters have the ability to tame pets 2 levels higher than the Hunter’s level

Hunter Pets do not auto-cast Dash or Dive when engaging their target

The Bonus Armor from Thick Hide is dropping off of Hunter pets shortly after talenting into it

Sending Hunter pets into combat with a special ability such as Bite does not also trigger your pet to begin attacking

Multiple instances of Hunter’s Mark can be applied to a target

Hunters are unable to cancel the animation associated with placing a trap by moving

Explosive Trap and Frost Trap place the hunter into combat each time they apply their associated effects or deal damage

Enemies will ignore collision when in combat with a player Note: This isn’t hunter specific and was a global issue. This did affect Hunter pets so we listed it here

Pets do not display a “ding” visual when leveling up

Activating a Night Elf Hunter’s Shadowmeld racial ability at the same time that the Eyes of the Beast cast completes will give the player control over pet movement without snapping to the Pet’s point of view

Ranged attacks cannot be blocked

Training pets may cause your client to become unresponsive

The spell animation for flare is significantly different than the animation used in 1.12

Attacking in melee cancels the hunter’s active Auto Shot timer Note: This remains a high skill-cap maneuver, but using a melee attack while an Auto Shot timer is active, then re-enabling Auto Shot for a ranged attack should be much more responsive now and should no longer completely reset the Auto Shot timer

When a Quiver or Ammo Pouch is equipped, the tooltip for Aimed Shot incorrectly reflects an attack speed bonus from the Quiver or Ammo Pouch that it does not actually receive

The Hunter’s quiver may occasionally appear in the Hunter’s hand instead of the Hunter’s equipped weapon

There is a slight delay on Hunter and Warlock pet’s auto-cast abilities

The Auto Shot sound and animation will cycle each time you change targets while Auto Shot is active

Hunter’s Mark can stack on a target with different ranks of Improved Hunter’s Mark

Multi-shot can hit totems

Hunter pet abilities are not automatically populated to the pet bar when trained

Eagle Eye and Farsight abilities will fail if targeted on a location that is more than 100 yards from the player

Please note that this list is not comprehensive. There have been many other issues that affect hunters that have been fixed recently, and we are still hard at work fixing other bugs.

The following issues have been confirmed as bugs and are still Known Issues as of our current build:

Auto Shot does not animate or display a missile when it fires immediately after Aimed Shot

Aspect of the Pack will sometimes attempt to apply itself to mounted party members

When taming a pet that teaches the Hunter a new Beast Training ability, the chat message does not report the ability’s rank

We hope to have fixes in place for these issues before launch, but please note that we can never guarantee when or if any known issue will be fixed.

Thank you all for your reports on the WoW Classic Beta so far!