Guild Wars 2

EDIT: If anyone in the future has this bug, I’ve found a work-around.

On this character, I had no water pets, only a set of land-only pets. When I tamed two water-viable pets, filling both of my previously-empty water-pet slots, the bug went away and seems to now be normal behaviour.

If you encounter this bug yourself, try taming two water pets (you can easily find both a rockfish and a jellyfish in sanctum harbor in lion’s arch) to fill those slots, and that might make the problem go away.

I’m having a problem with my pet on my ranger character – Whenever I change zones or re-log on this character, the primary pet slot reverts from whatever pet I had there to the juvenile fern hound. I have tried playing around with numerous configurations and no matter what I do, it changes back to the fern hound upon logging in.

Interestingly, this only happens on one of my two ranger characters (the other one appears to be able to change pets just fine). When the slot reverts to the fern hound, it retains the name of whatever I previously had in the slot. The slot will even change to fern hound if I have the fern hound in the secondary slot, resulting in both my primary and secondary pet slots having the fern hound (which isn’t supposed to happen at all.)

Google and the forum search function haven’t led me to any page or thread with someone else having the same issue. Help me Bugs Forum; you’re my only hope.

-SOR
-All Maps
-Sylvari Ranger
-Happens only on this character afaik

I really hate to be a nuisance and bump my own thread, but this is still happening to me. I still can’t make any attempt at changing my pet last through a zone change or relog. I’ve tried every way of re-changing and re-iterating my pet slots but nothing I do stops my primary slot from reverting to the fern hound. This is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING.

I’ve submitted a bug report, posted here with no answer, and checked the known issue tracker (nothing there). I am at wits end and don’t know what to do going forward to get this fixed.

Having the same issue. Sylvari ranger as well.

I’m also having this issue on my newest ranger, a male asura. It seems to be character related, since I have two other rangers on this account who can swap/keep their pets just fine. Whenever I log or change maps, the pet in his first slot reverts to a pink moa, but it keeps the name of the pet I had there previously.

Have you tried contacting the CS Team via the ‘Support’ link above/below and ‘Submit(ting) a Request’ for assistance?

This will assure you of a response.

Good luck.

My bug fixed itself, I ended up taming a River Drake in WvW and after a map change, it never happened again.