After one of the last fixes, apparently of 29 August, developers decided to greatly cut the tooltips shown by mouse over the pet list in the Pet Journal. The Health, Power and Speed are shown only on the right part of journal if you clicked a pet in the list.
From my point, it’s a big disadvantage comparing to previous tooltips, when I was able to find and select the suitable pet with the same name but different statistics, for example, S/S or P/P or with a speed more than some value for particular battle - simply by mouse over. Now the stats in tooltip are gone, need to click a pet in the list to check and compare.
Could it be possible to restore the old style tooltips?
Sounds like an addon xD dont think blizz have made so detailed info. For battle pets hehe
They need alot of love btw ! Would love to have options to pick my battle pet and throw a potion on it so its become a giant that i can controle into battle / WQ
Generally you are right, I should have checked this first. But in this case, after switching off all my addons and reload UI as required, the tooltips remain the same. Restarting the client also has no effect. So, it’s a change on the Blizzard side.
It’s either intentional or a side effect of implementing infotips about warband items, more exactly, about Warband Pets (despite the fact that they already were account-wide).
If it’s breed info, it can only mean BattlePetBreedID or to a lesser extent PetTracker. Rematch by itself has no data, and even refers to the former in the journal info.
I have no problem telling the caged pets apart, nor issues with mousing over the list. Could it be that the BPBID settings have been zeroed? If you go to Options > Addons > Battle Pet BreedID, you have a ton of checkboxes telling the addon where the info should be displayed.
As for something else, if your bags are small, or you click a link to the pet in the chat, and thus the information is likely to be at the bottom of the screen, the list of possible breeds will be lapping over the tooltip itself, which is indeed annoying, and been a thing for a while, too.
No, I reported a problem of the basic client functionality, without the addons like aforementioned Rematch, Battle Pet BreedID etc. People who are using addons may simply not notice that tooltips over the pet list have been simplified too much.
Blizzard should at least not to change the basic functionality since introducing the battle pets, keeping all important info available at glance.