Pet Commands and Pet AI

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• Pawain Posts: 10,202

  July 2019

  Thats Pet AI.  Player targeting also does not work in crowds. Attack nearest mob will choose to aggro something at the edge of the screen instead of the 5 choices right next to you.
  
  Pet AI:
  
  In a crowd pets will attack something that aggroes them.  If surrounded they will not hit targets because before they do the attack, something hits them and they decide to stop and attack that instead. But before the attack they get hit and change targets again.  You can watch them do a death spin when surrounded by tough mobs. 
  
  In Kaldun if 3 archers are in a large triangle you can see the pet go to one but the pet changes to another one before it gets there.  They could just stay there forever walking from target to target and not getting a chomp in before they change to another.

  Focus on what you can do, not what you can't.
• Arron Posts: 485

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  I have noticed that whenever I do spawns, the pet sometimes dies because they cant focus on one target. When that happens I command it to guard me, sometimes that helps them to focus on that target  and usually they kill that target. However It is hard because sometimes I have to run and hide because I am getting killed while the pet is playing ring around the roses lol. 
• Mandrake Posts: 61

  July 2019

  For not to meniton;
  
  Pet Cast Enemy of One "Let me pick one on one fight with you!! - oh,  I want to try on someone else...all others"
  
  - so pet goes on fighting other monsters than it has EoO with...
• PlayerSkillFTW Posts: 625

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  Yeah, if a pet has a DoT effect like Bleed, Poison, or Cold Wind, it makes it even worse trying to get the pet to switch to a high priority target. Any creature with AoE capability (which prevents me from getting close to vet the pet) is a high priority target. Necro casters, mobs with Auras, Dimetrosaurs with Poison Breath, etc.

  It'd be awesome if they could change it to where when you give a Kill command, the pet locks onto that target until it's dead, and refuses to switch unless given another order. Like a diving Japanese kamikaze, only aborting the attack if the Emperor himself gives the direct order.

  
  

  Mandrake said:

  For not to meniton;
  
  Pet Cast Enemy of One "Let me pick one on one fight with you!! - oh,  I want to try on someone else...all others"
  
  - so pet goes on fighting other monsters than it has EoO with...

  Why i avoid using a Chiv pet at Champs. Between EoO increasing damage taken by double, and Divine Fury lowering the pet's DCI into negatives...