All the non-combat pet Calls are broken and are shown as Summon Gust Ball in the hotbar

7/1/2016 9:36 AM
Title: All the non-combat pet Calls are broken and are shown as Summon Gust Ball in the hotbar
Reproduction Rate: 100%
Blocker? yes
Details: All the non-combat pet Calls are deprecated and broken and are shown as Summon Gust Ball in the hotbar.
It reads 'Deprecated' in the description of the items in the inventory.
When you try to drag a non-combat pet Call to the hotbar, you get Summon Gust Ball instead.
You are unable to call any non-combat pet.

Reproduced with:

• Black Foal Call
• Giant Dragonfly Call
• Giant Butterfly Call
• Raven Call
• Knight's Servant Call
• Great Dane Call
• Siamese Cat Call

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Drag a non-combat pet Call from your inventory to the hotbar
User Specs:
SotA.EarlyAccess.Win.64.432.Date.06.30.16
Area: Jaanaford (Novia_R6_City_Jaanaford) Loc: (-74.1, 33.2, -145.0)

 

The way non-combat pets work was changed in this release. Now there is one pet that is placeable for your housing lot and that acts as an off-lot pet. Since they are deprecated I would assume that they no longer work as shown by their action in-game.

However, the pet decoration calls are the ones that work now. If you drag the decoration pet to the non-combat bar it turns into the correct icon. You can then choose it to call your pet. Even if you are on your lot, it will be a pet that follows you around.