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Wanted to link the mount to a friend after beating Zekvir scenario.
If I link it to myself, it will be an empty whisper. If I put it into /say, my character will emote “unintelligible” and if I whisper it to someone else or put it in guild chat I will get several lines of a code instead of a link. Chatbox is set to fully interactable.
Not addon related, nothing to do with chat settings and neither does a full UI reset help. It is happening only for this character and others are unaffected.
First I thought I had some kind of a buff which was causing it, but not even entering and leaving Arena Skirmish which is a common fix for bugged characters helped to sort this out.
Been having this issue since early access, only way for me to link a mount is if I physically have the reins in my inventory, there is no way to link it from the mount journal anymore lol
Unsyncing from server backup and resyncing with config and settings files copy pasted from an unaffected character did not help at all. This has in some situations been suggested by CS to deal with CVars which may have become stuck.
Search is returning a lot of hits with many players having the same issue and several seem to be reporting that unboxing gift wrapped mounts in the journal tab might be one of the causes.
It could be that it is always only one character affected, it seems to be working just fine for all other alts.
Hi Pangolin,
We’ve had a bug in for this for quite a while, but considering its rarity and difficulty in reproducing, no progress as of now.
Please do be sure to submit a bug report from the character in question, if you didn’t already, and hopefully we can get to the bottom of it at some point!
I am seeing reports of this going two years back or longer and it is still affecting a large number of players. However I was able to found a temporary workaround in one of the comments.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/obimount
If you would please be so kind and help bring this addon up to attention of the developers because the solution might be much more simpler than it appears.
The LUA file inside consist only of 20 lines of text and possibly even points to the root cause.
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Okay so update for you all because I found this EU post about the same issue and they’re linking the cause to be unwrapping the 6 month gift mount on that character and that’s how that character became affected.
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/linking-mounts-just-says-something-unintelligible/485007
So I tested this out because my main character specifically hasn’t been able to link mounts for quite a few months now. I went to the trading post this month on a character that COULD link mounts just fine and collected the monthly reward which is a mount that needs to be unwrapped and what do you know, the character I did that on is also now unable to link mounts the same way my main character is. I’m adding this info here to keep this thread alive since the one I’m linking didn’t get traction and to add a confirmed cause of the problem.
This month’s trading post reward is a mount, which gets delivered into your mount journal all wrapped up in a gift box which you need to open. It adds up to the working theory and this is the most likely cause of the bug.
Two of my friends have successfully fallen victim to it / reproduced it but there may be an additional factor at play because the bug isn’t consistently affecting every player. One thing in common is that we all have looted a trading post CHEST in DORNOGAL (alternative ones are in ORG and SW but those could be faction specific).