Hunter Pet

[Sir_Die_alot]

Last night a priest friend (who has a hunter main) targeted my hunter's new pet bat, and was surprised to see the portrait showed the silver colored "rare" dragon icon. Later the same night he targeted my pet again and did not see the silver dragon icon.

I thought in the current iteration of WoW, hunter pets retain no memory of their heritage? The pet in question is Ressan the Needler, but he/she had already leveled at least a couple of times since tamed, when my friend reported seeing the silver dragon icon.

Any thoughts? And, yes, I think my friend was sober.

This is actually a very old bug. As it happens this is the oldest screenshot I have of my main character, taken November 15 2005:


(quote bolded for significance) It's funny you should bring this up now because this fits in with a bug I found people exploiting this afternoon. It seems that if you kill a hunter's pet that was tamed from the rare that is required for Medium Rare you will get credit for the achievement.