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FS#1436: [battle pets] Battle pet XP gained from battles is way too low

Niviat — 2026-04-23T02:17:05Z

https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Pet_Battle_System#Experience

I've fought a lvl 5 frog with my lvl 5 raven. My team had 3 pets on it, all lvl 5, but only the raven participated, so the other 2 pets shouldn't be getting any XP in this case (and they indeed didn't get any XP, so the issue isn't caused by XP being split). Defeating the frog awarded my raven 23 XP. This is way too little - based on the formula on the provided website, it should have gained (5 + 9) * (5 - 5 + 5) * 1 = 14 * 5 = 70 XP. Of course, in a more complex battle situation the formula alone isn't enough to calculate XP for each pet correctly, so please refer to the provided website (and possibly other sources) for more detailed info on the XP calculation in specific scenarios.

FS#1435: [quest][NPC][pet battles] Julia, The Pet Tamer

Niviat — 2026-04-23T01:47:28Z

https://www.wowhead.com/quest=31316/julia-the-pet-tamer https://www.wowhead.com/npc=64330/julia-stevens

When I defeated Julia Stevens in a pet battle for this quest, she disappeared instead of staying where she was and letting me talk to her to hand in the completed quest. This shouldn't happen.

FS#1434: [battle pets] Dead pet enters battle

Niviat — 2026-04-23T01:36:46Z

If the first battle pet on player's team is dead, it still enters battle when the player starts a match (for example against a wild pet). This makes no sense, it should automatically be skipped and the next pet on player's team should be used instead. And if all pets on player's team are dead, it shouldn't be possible to start a match at all.

FS#1433: [battle pets] Can't add more than 1 copy of a pet "from item"

Niviat — 2026-04-23T01:33:13Z

Even though it should be possible to have multiple (up to 3) copies of (almost?) all pets, and indeed multiple copies of the same pet can be caught through pet battles in the wild, it is impossible to add more than 1 copy of pets that are "learnt" from items, for example cats from the cat vendor in Elwynn Forest. The item is "consumed", but if a copy of that pet already is in the Pet Journal, another one is not added, even though it should be up to the total number of 3.

Here are some examples of pets from items that I've tried to get so far:
- https://www.wowhead.com/item=8485/cat-carrier-bombay - https://www.wowhead.com/item=8501/hawk-owl - https://www.wowhead.com/item=8487/cat-carrier-orange-tabby - this one is interesting because this pet can also be obtained by "learning it" from various beginner pet trainers like a spell, and in that case it is actually possible to add another copy of it to the Journal, so the whole issue seems to be more likely related to the processing of the items that "teach" pets, rather than to concrete pets themselves

FS#1432: [battle pet ability] Devour

Niviat — 2026-04-23T00:21:17Z

https://www.wowhead.com/pet-ability=538/devour

Battle pet ability Devour doesn't heal the pet that used it when the enemy gets killed as a result of that ability.

FS#1431: [battle pet ability] Cocoon Strike

Niviat — 2026-04-23T00:16:25Z

Battle pet ability Cocoon Strike has these issues:
- visually casts twice, although the damage effect is correctly applied only the first time
- doesn't apply the cocoon shell effect that should block 1 incoming attack and last 1 round, so either block the incoming attack in the round the ability was used if pet that used it went first, or block incoming attack in the next round if the pet that used it went last
- prevents player from swapping the pet in the next round after the ability was used

For more details on how this should work, check also comments here:
https://www.wowhead.com/pet-ability=506/cocoon-strike

FS#1430: Battle pets don't recover part of health lost during battle

Niviat — 2026-04-22T23:58:43Z

When battle pet survives until the whole pet battle match is over and won by the player, it should recover part of the health it lost during that match (even if it was swapped for another pet at any point), but it doesn't.

I couldn't find any proper source describing how exactly this should work, so I've attached the AI response from Google Search because it seems to be correct based on my previous WoW experience.

FS#1429: [achievements] Achievements getting randomly completed without actually meeting requirements

Niviat — 2026-04-22T22:36:49Z

I've only noticed this problem with Collection category achievements. So far, I've been awarded the following achievements without actually meeting the requirements:
- Ten Tabards (https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=1020/ten-tabards)
- Twenty-Five Tabards (https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=1021/twenty-five-tabards)
- Fashionista: Tabard (https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10690/fashionista-tabard)
- Fashionista: Shirt (https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10691/fashionista-shirt)
- Fashionista: Weapon & Off-Hand (https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=10689/fashionista-weapon-off-hand)

I suspect the issue is caused by something in the quest system because I'm almost 100% certain all of them popped when I handed in completed quests. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting a bug like this to occur, so I wasn't paying enough attention to the quests I was handing in to remember what their names were. I think the Fashionista: Weapon & Off-Hand popped when handing in some quest in Un'Goro Crater, and Fashionista: Tabard and Fashionista: Shirt popped during questing in Teldrassil. For the other 2 achievements I unfortunately don't remember any additional details.

FS#1428: Mounts - "favorite" flag randomly resets upon relog

Niviat — 2026-04-22T22:18:52Z

Exactly as title suggests - I set some mounts as favorite, but when I relog, the flag gets randomly reset for some of them and sometimes even all of them. I haven't noticed any pattern to it so far.

FS#1427: Battle pets "return" after being released

Niviat — 2026-04-22T22:14:17Z

I've caught 2 wild battle pets, both of them Rabbits, but I don't think it matters for the issue at hand. I released them because they were of low quality (I only caught them to complete a quest, I never planned to keep them). It seemed to work, but after relog, they were back in my Pet Journal, so it looks like they've never been actually "released" on database side, just in the interface.