Pet standing around, is it just me?
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Pet standing around, is it just me?
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And yes. My pets seem to sit over the slain mob. Almost like they're saying "I showed you!".
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A bit of palindromic wisdom:
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Also, the whole standing still thing isn't something I noticed either cuz I tend to chain pull stuff and by the time its all dead its at my side again lol.
I know my beetle (My tanking pet) never seems to fail me, so I guess for me its a combination of what I do and what pets I use.
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I guess some of our pets are the Moon Moon of our stables.
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I have to cast it regularly else my pet loses all aggro and suddenly I start looking like a buffet.
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Regardless of whether or not my pet is able to hold aggro I always keep MD up because I have it macroed with mend pet. Makes me sad when hunters don't bother to heal their pets when they're trying so hard to tank a mob with their little pet faces.
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I use Kill Command the second it's off cooldown.
I only ever use big damage-dealing abilities immediately after using Misdirect.
So I'm doing everything exactly the way I should. I've been playing hunter for 10 years now.
However, there's some sort of glitch in the last months where our pets just sit there after killing a mob. And at times this gets annoying because the pet refuses to go to a new mob you are attacking.
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You may think that's the right way to do it but it isn't to me. When soloing, I only use the big damage stuff (other than Kill Command) if I really need to. Sometimes I don't even use BW. Your way is much more dangerous. Like I said, I open with either an auto shot to pull or Kill Command if the mob is close enough. If I do the auto shot and then use my macro, the pet intercepts the mob and locks onto it way before it even gets close to me. There is no need to use MD if you do it that way. Even in raids and dungeons, I only use MD if I have to be the one pulling something to the tank. If the tank pulls, I never bother with it. Heck, I don't even use the OMEN addon any more because there is no way I will pull threat even when opening with all my cooldowns.Sukurachi wrote:I open every fight with Misdirect and a bomb of some sort.
I use Kill Command the second it's off cooldown.
I only ever use big damage-dealing abilities immediately after using Misdirect.
So I'm doing everything exactly the way I should. I've been playing hunter for 10 years now.
However, there's some sort of glitch in the last months where our pets just sit there after killing a mob. And at times this gets annoying because the pet refuses to go to a new mob you are attacking.
Actually, there are less aggro problems now then there were in Vanilla. Back then you had to send the pet in and let it establish aggro before you fired anything. In those days, misdirect was needed much more than now. Pulling threat from tanks was also an issue all the way through Wrath. Since then, it has disappeared and things like Omen are not even needed.
As to the pet standing still glitch, I haven't seen it.
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that's what Misdirect is for. it allows you to cause more damage and attribute it to your pet as far as aggro distribution is concerned. I think you're the one who may be mistaken as to what is the right and wrong way to play BM hunter.
I've never had trouble holding aggro until this issue with pets just sitting around admiring the view. This is a recent issue. In no way does it show that I am not playing my class/spec properly.
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One of the warlocks in my raid group was complaining about his demon buddies doing the same kind of thing and asked if hunter pets were doing it too. One of our shamans noted his elementals do it, too. Aside from being annoying, it can make for some issues in BRF on some fights. For example, I have to make sure to hit passive and bring my pet back just before the last Hans and Franz trash dies so that he's not standing around to aggro the bosses when they enter.
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I guess it's much more noticeable when you solo stuff.
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Went as BM and did the Apexis daily in Everbloom. At the end of combat the pet did consistently pause for just under 1 second before coming back. Is that what people are seeing? If that's the problem I can see why I hadn't noticed, a 1 sec delay isn't enough to get a red flag from me (lag will do far worse than that).