Growl Issue (More of a Meow! :( )

Classes Hunter
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I am at the end of my rope with this one guys, I need some help please…

My growl is bugged across all my pets (even where the growl is in a different place on the Pet action Bar). I have ensured that the Growl ‘spell’ is set to ‘active’, i.e. has the flashing border around it.

When I send my Pet in to a mob encounter (on Assist), it does not cast growl, it constantly lets aggro ‘drop’ it also feels like (and I may be wrong) other abilities set to active e.g. Spirit Shock (on Hati) aren’t automatically casting either, even when set to active.

I don’t have any ‘special’ addons - I use Bartender for my bars and I don’t use any macros. I used a middle mouse keybind to send my pet in to attack. I’ve tried dismissing / resummoning my pet, etc. There have been times where growl has randomly worked when I have sent the pet in and just left it, but then it will randomly just stop working during that fight, either when the mob targets me, or I start attacking it, or for no particular reason.

I am so confused - I’ve played a hunter on / off since Vanilla, but this one has me stumped - any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’ll buy the winning solution a cookie :=) <3

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Maybe for some reason pet has no focus for Growl. Maybe using it for something else? Have you tried manual use Growl, does it work?

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It works manually, yeah. I initially thought it was a focus issue, but it’s happening right at the beginning of a fight, so it has me puzzled. I can manually click growl and it will work, so spending focus on it doesn’t seem to be a problem.

This seems to be a recent thing (whether it’s new focus management or otherwise, I have no idea).

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Is this happening with specific pet or any pet?
Try turn off all auto-use abilities (deactivate them), keep only Growl. The pet should use it as it’s the only option. OR it just keeps having full focus bar and do only auto attacks?

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try removing it from pet action bars and just activat it on your spellbook

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I think I have found the source of the issue (as simple as it seems) - the issue seems to be with the animal companion talent (2 pets) - when dealing with multiple mobs. If the 2nd stabled pet is tagging / killing quicker than my main pet can attack things, it isn’t getting the opportunity to perform the growl. It’s kind of a niche scenario when running through lower level dungeons.

I think we can close this issue off - thanks for the help guys.

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