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Damage Pull-Back

Posted: October 10th, 2012, 5:50 pm
by Emrys
There have been several times when I go to fight a pet that I want to capture and it needs a few more hit points taken off, but a regular attack would kill it. Do you think there will ever be the option to do half-damage, or something similar?

Re: Damage Pull-Back

Posted: October 10th, 2012, 6:10 pm
by Poofah
This is troublesome, because if you forfeit the match then the pet will despawn and you lose your shot at it. If you force quit WoW and relog, the pet will not despawn, but it will instead revert to being a clickable critter, and you can interact with it to start the battle over again. The pet will retain all its former characteristics (e.g. rarity and stats, and the secondary pets that join). Of course, you risk somebody else coming along and grabbing your pet spawn while you reload.

This is obviously not a very elegant solution, but so far it's the best way I've found to avoid losing the spawn altogether.

*edit* console reloadui doesn't work, actually, but forced relogging does.

Re: Damage Pull-Back

Posted: October 11th, 2012, 2:00 am
by Lisanette
...and always bring a pet with a low damage attack. ("Alt F4" is your friend.)

Re: Damage Pull-Back

Posted: October 11th, 2012, 3:02 am
by Jin
Get a Terrible Turnip, it has an attack that can't reduce an enemy below 1 hitpoint. :D

Perfect for catching wild pets!

Re: Damage Pull-Back

Posted: October 11th, 2012, 8:47 am
by Emrys
Jin wrote:Get a Terrible Turnip, it has an attack that can't reduce an enemy below 1 hitpoint. :D

Perfect for catching wild pets!
Thanks for the tip! I'll have to look into that.