Pet Pathing Issues?Follow

I was curious if anyone was having any issues with the pet pathing changes:

I've noticed this only a handful of times since the patch so far, but for some reason, when I click the command to send my pet in to attack a mob, he doesn't go until I fire first or attack in any other way. I don't remember off-hand if the mob was backed-up against a wall or anything, so I'd have to test this. But some posters on other forums have mentioned having some issues in these types of situations.

So, just curious if anyone here has noticed any issues.

I noticed that my pet jumped off a ledge with me on Wednesday instead of running down the stairs and around too me... I was pretty surprised, but haven't tried it anywhere else to see if it was just a fluke.

last night in heroic ramps, I sent my cat in to attack a mob, and it wussed out and ran down the hallway in the OPPOSITE direction.

It's like having a real life pet! It's awesome! My Dog definitely approves, and have most likely been the model of the current Pet AI.

North: Go kill that thing!
Revan: ... are you stupid? It's a giant!
North: Obey!
Revan: Yeah, sure. Go get killed while depending on you to pull my nuts out of the fire? Are you crazy?
North: But... But you are my pet! You are supposed to obey! Go take the pain like a nice pet now.
Revan: Sure, you get his attention, and I can start tearing into him from behind, deal?
North: ... the whole point was for you to have his attention.
Revan: Well ***** this shit, I'm out of here.
*runs off in the opposite direction*

Yup. My dog definitely modeled the current AI.

i dont want to get on WOW now. Nothing like having a 67 ravager named Bob Saget making you be it's *****

Last night I was in a 4 man group doing Underbog to clear some quests for a member. Warrior, paladin and two hunters (I was one of those hunters). At the first boss, Hungerfen, both of our pets upon being sent to attack ran completely the other way, down the ramp and out of sight. Every time. We could not, no matter what we tried, get our pets to attack the boss. The other hunter was so startled they got blown to bits by the exploding mushrooms. My pet eventually died from the AOE as well and only upon reviving it then did it finally go to attack upon command.

Very weird. There was lots of room to get behind the boss too.

I've had the worse time on both my lock and hunter. Every other attack command glitches out. I have to actually attack mob first, then let mob hit me while my pet is on defensive, in order to get the pet to attack. And on my hunter I have noticed that he just runs off sometimes for no reason at all. I've never had to "call pet" so many times in a day. Pretty sad actually. Why did blizzard change the pet pathing anyway?

Roland

I've had similar, though not exactly the same, issues LONG before 2.3! I used to send in my roomate (warrior) to a group of mobs and then i made some weird pathing issues, like running the other direction, feigning and hearing a loud chuckle from my side of the room, or even putting misdirection on my roomate and pulling another group of 3+ mobs to him THEN feigning. weirdest stuff ever.

My pet just sat there. lazy *****

They changed the pet AI so that your pet will try to move behind mobs to avoid frontal cleaves etc.

In the process, it has created certain pathing issues that were obviously unintended. I haven't really had too many problems with it. If your pet has aggro, it won't try to move behind a mob, and since solo content always has me opening with my pet going in on Growl auto-cast, that has never been an issue. In group content up to this point, it's exceptionally rare that my pet is unable to get behind a mob. In those cases where I try to send my pet in and he doesn't move, I just shoot at the mob a couple of times and try to engage my pet again. It usually works.

Yeah I've noticed my pet not attacking. So I just concussive shot and as soon as the mob turns to me and gets ready to beat my face in, my pet dashes forward and engages. Seems like a minor bug, it hasn't caused me anything but some distress as I mash Ctrl+1 while shouting "ATTACK HIM YOU LITTLE MAGGOT, JUST GO ATTACK HIM ALREADY."

I noticed the 'drag' effect as well, and it was there pre 2.3 but only in certain conditions, now it's much more common. I think it had more to do with aggro-hold before 2.3 but it could be pathing now. I generally don't mind my pet pulling a target a bit closer to me, keeps the combat sphere tighter when other mobs could add in unnecessarily if it was larger.

Another thing I noticed was that on mobs that 'run', if the pet regains the aggro (overcomes the run effect), it can drag them back toward you, but this can be a good or a bad thing. Had him drag the mob right into another one. On the plus side, that mob is almost dead so picking up a new one isn't always a bad thing... ^_^

Again, I really like the new turn bit, I seem to get fewer resists on some shots and I'm not sure but it looks like I do more damage. Does anyone know if back attacks get any kind of damage bonus?

Just thought some of you might get a kick out of this.

I've experience the same pathing issues too. Narrow spaces seem to be the worst but it happens in open areas on occasion as well. Heroic underbog seems to terrible for it. Several fights involved me scooting closer and closer to the mobs until my cat would finally head straight for it. After a while on one fight on a ramp, i just let my cat run the other way just to see what would happen. After about 10 or 15 seconds, it came charging back up the ramp to attack. Very annoying and I hope the fix this soon.