Game Mechanics: Pets don't hold hate like they should: Copious amounts of EVIDENCE

[wwoneo]

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[Adron]

Bump. Screwing the pet classes out of their ability to tank properly narrows the game down to too few viable classes in the endgame. Making fewer classes viable in the endgame is not more fun. It isn't classic. It isn't the right way forward.

[bwe]

Why is this taking so long

[wwoneo]

Originally Posted by bwe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why is this taking so long

4 years is too long? you have no patience! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[wwoneo]

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[AbstractVision]

Any thought been given to revisiting classic pet aggro for green?

[feniin]

Pets should be able to hold agro with PCs in melee range. Blows my mind that it's gone on this long without a fix. Fundamentally changes so many classes.

[Danth]

Originally Posted by feniin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pets should be able to hold agro with PCs in melee range. Blows my mind that it's gone on this long without a fix. Fundamentally changes so many classes.

They can in the right circumstances. Just a couple days ago the wife and I were dorking around on some low level characters and I noticed that a Necromancer pet could and often did hold aggro over Shaman melee. You might argue they should be better at it, but they can do it at least in terms of having the raw capability.

Danth

[soronil]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They can in the right circumstances. Just a couple days ago the wife and I were dorking around on some low level characters and I noticed that a Necromancer pet could and often did hold aggro over Shaman melee. You might argue they should be better at it, but they can do it at least in terms of having the raw capability.

Danth

On my SK and mage, I have noticed just walking into melee range causes mob to focus me. I assumed the behavior currently on blue was that it was not possible to a target a pet when a player was in melee range. I actually use this to save my pet at low levels. Even if I have not attacked, and the pet has been taunting and dpsing 50%+ of the mobs hp, I can take aggro by walking up

[Danth]

Originally Posted by soronil [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

On my SK and mage, I have noticed just walking into melee range causes mob to focus me. I assumed the behavior currently on blue was that it was not possible to a target a pet when a player was in melee range. I actually use this to save my pet at low levels. Even if I have not attacked, and the pet has been taunting and dpsing 50%+ of the mobs hp, I can take aggro by walking up

Could be just Necromancer/skeleton pets perhaps? I was under the impression on P99 that monsters would always favor a player character in melee range over a pet as well so I was surprised to see it happen at all, but it happened numerous times and once I got used to it I was able to control it to come extent. Given I was on a Shaman, any proper melee class would presumably out-aggro the pet easily.

Danth