Pet Battles Hotfixes - Updated 10/11/12

Updated: 10/11/2012

As you can see by the following updates, we're still keeping a very close eye on Pet Battles. You guys have been fantastic with your continued updates and we sincerely appreciate that, and your patience. Please keep in mind, due to the nature of these types of fixes, they very likely won't be active until after next week's standard maintenance has concluded. Here are the things we are hotfixing:

Battle Pet Training is now correctly shared account wide to all characters.

Numerous pet battle achievements should now reward correctly:

• Taming the World has been reduced to 40 pet tamers from 45. The achievement should now properly reward to players that earned it before or after the hotfix.
• Taming achievements should now reward correctly. Many players reported the criteria completed but the achievement would not complete.
• Taming achievements rewarding correctly should also alleviate the problem with daily quests not activating correctly. The daily quests are unlocked based on the Taming achievements being completed.

Strong and Pristine traps should now correctly be rewarded to players from achievements. This fix should retroactively award the traps to players that already have the achievements.

Purchasable pets have been removed from the Eastern Kingdoms Safari achievement.

An issue with account daily quests not resetting has been fixed.

Note that many of the achievement fixes will show incorrect UI until patch 5.1.0. Rest assured that the data is correctly working though.

An issue with phased pets in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms has been fixed.
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As Mists of Pandaria continues to unravel its mysteries, there are bound to be a few bugs that crop up from time to time and we’re working diligently on getting each one addressed. For the pet battlers among you, here are some of the hotfixes we’ve recently applied to the game:

[09/28/2012] A bug has been fixed that caused turn inputs to sometimes be skipped, causing only one pet to take action that turn

[09/28/2012] Conceding in a random PVP Pet Battle should now count as a loss

[09/28/2012] State-dependent abilities should no longer have their effects reversed (example: Maul should correctly require that the target be Bleeding)

[09/29/2012] Many balance changes have been implemented (example: Build Turret now has a 2-round cooldown, up from 1) -- A full list of recent balance changes can be found here.

[10/05/2012] Issues relating to certain Pet Battles achievements have been hotfixed and should be functioning correctly across factions.
In addition, we’re investigating a possible issue with traps not upgrading and will get it resolved as quickly as possible.

Thank you for your continued feedback and bug reports. We appreciate your enthusiasm for this new feature, as well as the time you’ve taken to discuss the Pet Battle system!

09/28/2012 06:24 PMPosted by Vasala

Is there any word about the issue that some new alts especially pandas can't learn pet battle training and thus can't buy the special pet for their race from the pet battle trainer?

Yes, this should be fixed now. =)

nope it's not fixed

Thank you for the update, Laurianna. I've just been informed that this is being looked into now.

09/28/2012 07:14 PMPosted by Reefguy

Any chance we can get a list of all the balance changes?

Looky what I got!

Full balance change-list that was applied during the recent hotfixes:

Build Turret: Cooldown increased by 1 round

Tidal Wave, Magma Wave: Damage increased 40%

Scorched Earth: Initial damage increased 66%

Call Blizzard: Damage increased 66%

Sunlight: Damage increased 100%

Sandstorm: Damage increased 66%

Call Darkness: Damage increased 100%

Illuminate: Damage increased 100%

Arcane Storm: Damage per pet increased 60%

Moonfire: Damage increased 150%

Call Lightning: Damage increased 150%

Cleansing Rain: Healing increased 60%

Dive/Devastate/Proto-Stike/Lift-Off/Heroic Leap/Meteor Strike/Launch: Damage increased 17%

Howl: Duration increased to 2 rounds, cooldown increased to 3 rounds

Horn Attack: Damage increased 47%

Crouch/Staggered Steps: Cooldown reduced by 1 rounds

Extra Plating: Duration and cooldown increased by 1 round

Perk Up: Healing increased 40%

Swarm/Stampede/Zergling Rush/Flock: Damage increased 12.5%

Quake: Damage increased 20%, cooldown reduced 1 round

Tympanic Tantrum: Damge increased 40%, cooldown increased 1 round

Bleat: Cooldown reduced 1 round

Ancient Blessing: Healing increased 40%

Crystal Overload: Damage to self reduced 37.5%

Conflagrate: Base and bonus damage increased 25%

Plant: Healing per turn increased 20%

Inspiring Song: Healing per pet increased 20%

Coocoon strike: Cooldown reduced 1 round

Squawk: Cooldown removed

Cyclone: Damage per pet increased 40%

Whirlwind: Damage per pet increased 10%

Focus: Duration increased 2 rounds

Surge of Light: Base damage increased 25%

Perfumed Arrow: Damage increased 10%

Aged Yolk/Eggnog/Sear Magic: Cooldown reduced 1 round

Lock-On: Damage reduced 10%

Wind-Up: Damage increased 12.5%

Rabid Strike: Damage increased 30%

Bonestorm: Cooldown reduced 1 round
Keep the reports and feedback coming!

Thanks everyone for all the updates and continued reports. I've collected everything you've shared so far and have forwarded it along to the necessary people. If you encounter any other concerns regarding Pet Battles, please post them here.

Here is the latest information I’ve received from our developers regarding some of the concerns you folks have shared with us:

Several of the hotfixes that have been applied needed realm restarts to take affect; with today’s maintenance, they should now be in place

• Tooltip text on abilities that had balance fixes (e.g. Siphon Life)

• Pets that didn’t appear in the journal (e.g. Crimson Moth); there are still a few pets missing which should show up after next week’s maintenance

Expunge damage has been increased by 10%

Pet Battles matchmaking has received some tweaks, you should now find PvP matches to be much more in line with your pets’ levels even if your opponent’s pets are dramatically different in level

Inputs randomly skipping should finally be resolved as of today’s restarts

We’re still working on Strong and Pristine traps not applying correctly and working on fixing this as quickly as possible
As you continue to take on Azeroth’s ferocious critters, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you encounter any issues, specifically with inputs being skipped.

We have a quick update about the Pet Battles achievements you guys have been great in reporting: Cory Stockton has just announced that they've located what was causing the issue and it has been hotfixed. They should be functioning correctly now across both factions.

10/05/2012 10:22 PMPosted by Malderas

My pandaren monk alt still has "Battle Pet Training" listed as being not known, and the trainer still says he already learned it. Can't learn the Jade Crane Chick or do the pet battle quests on my new character.

Rest assured, we're definitely working on this issue.

As you can see by the following updates, we're still keeping a very close eye on Pet Battles. You guys have been fantastic with your continued updates and we sincerely appreciate that, and your patience. Please keep in mind, due to the nature of these types of fixes, they very likely won't be active until after next week's standard maintenance has concluded. Here are the things we are hotfixing:

Battle Pet Training is now correctly shared account wide to all characters.

Numerous pet battle achievements should now reward correctly:

• Taming the World has been reduced to 40 pet tamers from 45. The achievement should now properly reward to players that earned it before or after the hotfix.
• Taming achievements should now reward correctly. Many players reported the criteria completed but the achievement would not complete.
• Taming achievements rewarding correctly should also alleviate the problem with daily quests not activating correctly. The daily quests are unlocked based on the Taming achievements being completed.

Strong and Pristine traps should now correctly be rewarded to players from achievements. This fix should retroactively award the traps to players that already have the achievements.

Purchasable pets have been removed from the Eastern Kingdoms Safari achievement.

An issue with account daily quests not resetting has been fixed.

Note that many of the achievement fixes will show incorrect UI until patch 5.1.0. Rest assured that the data is correctly working though.

An issue with phased pets in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms has been fixed.