Defensive/Assist - Is this accurate?
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Defensive/Assist - Is this accurate?
Pets set on Assist will only attack what YOU attack.
Defensive pet stance means pets will now only attack what attacks YOU, NOT what you attack.
Is this correct?? I have to keep my pet on Defensive, AND use an extra keypress to send it in, every time I attack something? OR, keep it on Assist, and toggle it Defensive every time I pop afk, or PvP? I'm trying to get a handle on whether this is true. Can anyone confirm this? If it is true, any idea WHY they changed it? I'm not particularly happy about removing Aggressive in the first place, but to me, changing Defensive seems to imply that the pet's aggro table* will be gone--making tanking multiple mobs far more of a chore.
* By aggro table, I also mean the pet's current behavior of attempting to keep aggro on all mobs, for example changing target to chase mobs that aggro you instead, etc.
Anyone on the PTR able to tell me if these changes are right, why they were made if so, and how much different it feels in practice?
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Thanks for clearing that up!
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I want agressive back! ;_;
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unless they make it so he can spot rogues or what not.. I am not a happy camper. Even with my flares up and what not, its easy for a rogue come in, sap and run out of my range of "hidden" and me thinking.. what the heck just hit me. They can stealth back way way too fast.. my tab abilities arent so sharp yet
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It was one of my best ways to get rogues while defending nodes in AV, AB, and guarding the flag in WSG >_>
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Actually, it was meant to make this harder.Rawr wrote:Blizz needs to stop taking things away to make it easier for the lazy people who apparently need help understanding the basics of controlling a pet. I WANT MY AGGRESSIVE PET BACK! (Mr.Chewybitems is not happy with this at all.)
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Rawr wrote:Blizz needs to stop taking things away to make it easier for the lazy people who apparently need help understanding the basics of controlling a pet. I WANT MY AGGRESSIVE PET BACK! (Mr.Chewybitems is not happy with this at all.)
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Not happy. Put Aggressive back now before release. Give Defensive that "assist" feature. And give us a glyph worth using like "Glyph of Greater Attention: Your pet will now attack whatever you've Marked."
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I can't say I'll miss aggressive too much, but it IS fun stealthing my Dae, placing all of my traps, putting him on aggressive and just behind the traps, and watching a rogue trying to take back a bunker get blown up. rofl
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I don't know why they can't just add a stance. We already have both stay and move to. The tiny pet bar is outdated : /
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I generally keep him on defensive stance, and sometimes send him in to a pack that I'll Misdirect to and Multishot. MOST of the time he's good about finishing off whatever I'm currently working on dispatching then switching to my next target, but there are times when he just runs back to me, dragging along a bunch of aggressive mobs that have tagged HIM as their target.
I seem to remember my pet, on Defensive, fighting back when something hit him? or at least, switching to whatever the next mob I'm hitting with arrows is. Lately, it seems he forgets he's in a fight and just wants to snuggle with daddy.
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It's been happening to me--and I'm fairly sure I remember reading accounts from others--since Cataclysm came out. Sometimes the pet, regardless of "stance," will return to you and reset his position before re-aggroing the mobs you have been shooting. It's pretty infuriating having to wait for the pet to get to you and reset before repositioning, especially if it's a tough pull and they're all pounding on your pet's rear as he runs away >.<Sukurachi wrote:I've already been finding my pet acting weird these last few weeks...
I generally keep him on defensive stance, and sometimes send him in to a pack that I'll Misdirect to and Multishot. MOST of the time he's good about finishing off whatever I'm currently working on dispatching then switching to my next target, but there are times when he just runs back to me, dragging along a bunch of aggressive mobs that have tagged HIM as their target.
I seem to remember my pet, on Defensive, fighting back when something hit him? or at least, switching to whatever the next mob I'm hitting with arrows is. Lately, it seems he forgets he's in a fight and just wants to snuggle with daddy.