Judist

Wtf?

Pett

Exactly.

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I Dont Run

So is there a point to this thread or do you just suck and got pwned by a Shaman?

Judist

Was there a point to your reply? Or are you saying its ok to make an offensive pet untargetable by abusing a mechanic only meant to minimize clutter?

And yea, if eating ninja scourges and loosing a bunch of buffs means pwned, I totally suck.

Borias

Wait what's your complaint even? You got scourged in pvp? Splain plx?

Judist

To counter scourge you used to be able to nuke dogdog before a shaman had the chance to use it. And even if dogdog isnt used for scourge or procing wards, it can still carry a group haste buff.

Using the pet-hide mechanic (which completely removes the model) makes it totally untargetable, and removing the model of any pet which can go offensive is a broken mechanic.

Edited to add:

Cheap or not, nuking dogdog (which has low mit/resists) was also a lovely way to burn their single/group wards in a hurry. That was the cost of having dogdog around in the past.

Lonely

I do not understand what you mean about /pet hide. The shaman pets cannot be hidden.

LFG

Pet hide works on diety pets, not on the shaman dog.

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LFG

I've now tried to read this post and am really confused.

Scourge is a resistable achievement ability that, when cast and not resisted, strips buffs on the toon it is cast upon, and does a specific amount of disease based damage for each buff stripped. But it is also highly resistable if the player or mob you are using it against has high disease resists. Cast Imprecate first for best results.

It is most fun and useful against players using charmed mobs as pets (the pet will attack the charmer once you strip the charm) and against manashield. On a successful cast against a mage, it's as good or better than harm touch, and will often take half a mage's life or better. It's a great combination with HT, I was usually able to two shot most mages with a scourge/HT combination when I two boxed while leveling.

But scourge doesn't have a damn thing to do with shaman pets.

EDIT: for real fun with Scourge, use it in combination with the Bertox blessing/miracles that double disease damage. That will often one shot a mage when not resisted.

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Judist

Last night I was scourged by a defiler w/o a shaman dog present. On the 2nd or 3rd fight I died near a respawn point. On revive I saw him summon dogdog and *poof* it dissapeared.

He wasnt grouped w/ a rogue or anything that would of put doggy in stealth. Anyways, to verify one last time what was going on, I re-engaged and sure enuf was scourged again.

I assumed pet-hide was the culprit.

Ahh, and it seems LFG may have called me out here. I played a defiler as main in all of T7 kos/eof and iirc back then scourge basically "blew up" dogdog. I take it that the AA has been changed?