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http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=102666#p1158499
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asakawa
this one seems to come up every couple of weeks.
toldu linked it but i'll just paste my reply in here:
a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
before flying mounts, warlock (and hunter) pets didn't despawn when you mounted up. they stayed out and followed you around.
when we got flying mounts this became an issue because you would take off and fly around and your pet would run around on the ground below agroing the entire zone, giving you a nasty surprise when you landed.
they fixed this by making pets despawn when you mount and return when you dismount.
problem solved? well not quite. this led to an exploit where a warlock with dark pact could drain their pet's mana (filling their own) mount, dismount and have a full pet's mana bar again.
infinite mana.
the fix? if your pet has low health or mana before you mount up they return with only their base stats when you dismount. base stats being none of the scaling they get from their master's gear.
it's a poor fix for a slightly silly problem/exploit. i doubt blizz see it as 'working as intended' but i also doubt it will ever get to the top of any priority list for bug fixes.
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asakawa
well, in defence of the GMs i bet that "your addons all suck, are out of date and conflict with each other" is the answer to 98% of the technical questions a GM gets asked.
but, yeah, they should probably have known about this issue since it's been around for quite some time now.
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asakawa
this change was before arenas were introduced and probably wasn't really an issue in BGs since you we're unlikely to get out of combat to use this trick when you needed it.
it was really a PvP (solo/levelling) thing. it's not that it's a super nasty nerf more that it's inelegant and a bad solution to a minor problem.
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Maxlock
Remember flying over Nagrand to only land and summon the Felguard, start killing, finish the quest, then fly back to Telaar ,land and summon the Felguard, fly off again to another quest, land, summon, fly back, land, summon....?
oh my god, i almost threw up for real.
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