My question is simple. Why are the WD pets so stupid?
I've only been playing a wd a couple of months now, so I am by no means a expert on the class, will always be learning about it I fear. But I've noticed on many occasions that the pets are just downright STUPID! I'll give a couple of example to prove my point.
1) Fighting a group of whites *trash* at a distance of about 10-15 game yards away, and the pets just stand there next to me with the proverbial 'thumb up there asses' doing nothing.
2) Fighting an elite that may spawn adds and watching the pets disengage from the elite boss only to chase down the worthless add that was spawned, thusly blowing any type of cooldowns that you might have set up for that elite fight.
So I guess my real question might be, is this the normal behavior of the pets? Or is this just some sort of snafu with the pet targeting coding? I recognize that while the pet targeting code may be difficult to please all players out there. But I would think that they *developers* could learn something from yet another Blizzard game - WoW and there pets aggro selectable stances. By no means am I suggesting that this is a cure for what I will refer to as "stupid-pet syndrome". But I would like to think that it might be a step in the right direction for all of the pet/follower users out there.
Please feel free to 'flame' away at this humble post, or please point me in the right direction for further reading that may assist in my understanding in these pet issues.
Thank you for your time reading and possibly enhancing my understanding of this problem.
The pet AI is much improved on the ptr, they no longer stand around gazing dreamily into space while the elites/boss smash you into oblivion. That being said, they will still run off and attack random trash mobs instead of focusing on the boss/elites. The issue is that pets have collision, so only x number can be focused on what you are attacking. Those that cannot hit what you are attacking will search for a new target, and attack that. It feels to me on the ptr that they increased the range certain pets can attack from (gargantuan, big dog) so those always seem to be on your main target the majority of the time.
It feels to me on the ptr that they increased the range certain pets can attack from (gargantuan, big dog) so those always seem to be on your main target the majority of the time.
I seem to remember Blizzard stating that they would reduce the collision hitbox on our pets, meaning you could stack more of them around a single enemy.
I've only been playing a wd a couple of months now, so I am by no means a expert on the class, will always be learning about it I fear. But I've noticed on many occasions that the pets are just downright STUPID! I'll give a couple of example to prove my point.
1) Fighting a group of whites *trash* at a distance of about 10-15 game yards away, and the pets just stand there next to me with the proverbial 'thumb up there asses' doing nothing.
2) Fighting an elite that may spawn adds and watching the pets disengage from the elite boss only to chase down the worthless add that was spawned, thusly blowing any type of cooldowns that you might have set up for that elite fight.
So I guess my real question might be, is this the normal behavior of the pets? Or is this just some sort of snafu with the pet targeting coding? I recognize that while the pet targeting code may be difficult to please all players out there. But I would think that they *developers* could learn something from yet another Blizzard game - WoW and there pets aggro selectable stances. By no means am I suggesting that this is a cure for what I will refer to as "stupid-pet syndrome". But I would like to think that it might be a step in the right direction for all of the pet/follower users out there.
Please feel free to 'flame' away at this humble post, or please point me in the right direction for further reading that may assist in my understanding in these pet issues.
Thank you for your time reading and possibly enhancing my understanding of this problem.
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/Taliesyn-2517/hero/66020932