Pet Action Bar Missing! Hunter Unplayable...

#0 - Oct. 16, 2010, 11:23 p.m.
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As the subject line says, I'm SOL with my hunter right now, and I'm getting desperate.

Every time I use an ability with my hunter (ANY ability, be it pet a command, or a spell like arcane shot) my pet action bar disappears... or more correctly, it falls quickly out of sight. Once the pet action bar is gone, I can't control my pet whatsoever. For example, I have a simple "/petattack" macro, and although this macro worked great before 4.0 and still works with my mage's water elemental, nothing at all happens with my hunter's pet if the pet bar is missing.

I searched online for a solution and the best I found was a macro that brings the pet bar back temporarily:
"/script PetActionBarFrame:Show()"

However, because the pet bar instantly disappears the second I do ANYTHING, this fix is pretty useless.

I tried running the repair utility and deleting my WTF and cache folders, but to no avail. I also have no addons installed.

EDIT: Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that I tried playing my hunter on my friend's macbook (she JUST installed a fresh copy of WoW last night) and sure enough, the pet action bar instantly disappears. It's like maybe the hunter's server-side settings are all funky? Can those be reset... maybe like a server-side version of deleting her WTF folder?

I've run out of tricks! Please help.... Me love you long time.... ;_;
#7 - Oct. 21, 2010, 9:12 p.m.
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Go to your spellbook and under Beast Mastery check to see if you have trained in "Handle Pet" (I think that is the proper spell). If not, go to your trainer and train it.

If that does not resolve this, put in a ticket to a GM and they should be able to look at this from an in-game perspective.