LoS on pet, and melee on mage pet

momo20 · 08-07-2009, 04:55 PM

Hi there, got an alty Necro, and been anoying me for some time, that if i fight mob in "rocky" underground, my pet sometimes wont attack, even i hit: ask the pet to attack, is there any way to make the pet find a LoS position to the mob, nomatter where i am? and do i have to put melee attack button on (use profitUI) on my magepet for more dps?

Grim

twisty · 08-07-2009, 06:34 PM

pretty much in all heroic content putting mage pet into melee mode is the answer to LoS issues (since it won't have LoS problems if it's in melee range). except, of course, it's a bad idea on many raid bosses for pet to be that close to boss.

ideally we need some sort of visual indicator around pet bar that spells are being cast. like a red blinking border that used to represent "in combat" state in EQ1, except it should only be blinking when spells are casting and not just "in combat". yes you can look for particle effects from pet, but my graphics on raid don't show missles. yes you can sort of judge the situation by mana depletion on pet, and it's the best tool we have today, but in many cases it takes quite long to figure out due to fast pet regen.

Davngr · 08-07-2009, 06:56 PM

call sevant lvl 15 spell is your friend in these situations, with a 30 second recast and the fact it calls your pet right to you, i usally call him to me at the start of the new encounter once i know, i have LoS

Obsydianyte · 08-08-2009, 05:00 AM

If you stop using your pet strink spell it should resolve the issue, The issue only began once they gave summoners this spell.

Deson · 08-08-2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Obsydianyte

If you stop using your pet strink spell it should resolve the issue, The issue only began once they gave summoners this spell.

It's been an issue since they made pets require LoS around DoF. It's gotten better and worse at times but it began long before shrink.

Davngr · 08-08-2009, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Obsydianyte

If you stop using your pet strink spell it should resolve the issue, The issue only began once they gave summoners this spell.

so why did my pet just stand there (on the stairs) instead of attacking in laboratory of vymm? if anything pet shrink and call sevant have helped.

it's an ongoing prosses because devs don't understand they need to either make our pet fully controlled by the summoner or make it a 100% hit rate chance spell. because having to deal with the los/resist/detrimentals with out true control is the worst of both worlds.

Carthington · 08-10-2009, 07:49 PM

one of them at fan faire made a notation on his cell phone when I mentioned line of site issues and AI stuff.... not sure if anything will become of it though but we'll see...

Lakrohne · 08-11-2009, 02:57 PM

once you get your mythical, having pet in melee range won't be much of an issue, except for a few bosses with some really nasty AOEs; but your pet can take a hit and aoe heals can probably take care of him.

Theres only a handful of encounters in the entire game that I type '/pet ranged' for.