What is this?

[Occum]

I guess I should know.
My bear companion...every so often there is a "bang" and a yellow flower-like icon flashes above him for an instant. There's no apparent effect on him. I THINK this only started recently.
Thanks.

[Boraxxe]

I guess I should know.
My bear companion...every so often there is a "bang" and a yellow flower-like icon flashes above him for an instant. There's no apparent effect on him. I THINK this only started recently.
Thanks.

Its simple.
When humans have a sudden brilliant idea, a light bulb appears over their heads.
When bears have a sudden brilliant idea a dandelion appears over their heads.

[Witch0King]

I guess I should know.
My bear companion...every so often there is a "bang" and a yellow flower-like icon flashes above him for an instant. There's no apparent effect on him. I THINK this only started recently.
Thanks.

It came with the update. I assume you can filter the sound. I haven’t done so because I assume it’s a bug that’ll be fixed soon. The sound is like a hammer strike and makes little sense for the bear. It’s quite frankly, unbearable.

[Occum]

It’s quite frankly, unbearable.

*groan* LOL

[Mithithil]

Its the sound that I would normally associate with breaking a mob's induction if that's any pointer.

Is it only when the bear is out and what skuills do you have as "auto"?

[Schattenhand]

I noticed that in one short story instance of the new area, where some Beorning NPC gather together in their bear-forms and celebrate their victory over the baddies. While they're talking i noticed the same sound and they had those yellow symbols over them.

[Occum]

Is it only when the bear is out and what skuills do you have as "auto"?

Yep, only when the bear is out, and the symbol appears above him. I have the bear set on "guard mode". I have no skills on auto other than "track artifacts". It happens even if we're just standing there.

No big deal, it seems. Just weird.

[Gandolf_TheOld]

This happens only with the Bear and in any area; it is a bug that showed up with the Floodfells update.

[Talttos]

It happens to all bears (pets, beorns in bear form, bear NPCs)...
Yesterday on the Eavespire, with plenty of bears around, felt like inside a popcorn pan: blink! blink! blink! all around

[Dinara]

I noticed this also. I'm on a Legendary server, not playing a Lore Master. All bears get this as I go by.

[Occum]

Seems to have been fixed.

I had renamed my bear Boomer, but now he's back to Ben. An old 70's TV show.