Bad pet! -- SunwellFollow

I wasn't in my guild's Brutallis fight yesterday, but I heard Hunters say the same in our own "Hunter Chat". The pets would just stutter around behind them, and refuse to attack. Don't know what the problem is, but you are not alone.

I've not been to Sunwell. However when my pet performs similar antics, its because he can't find a path to the target. I've frequently noticed this problem when the floor is broken up into chunks. Does the area of your fight have a broken floor?

Crazy. I was in Sunwell last night, too. It was my first time seeing Brut.

So my experience is a little hard to explain, but here it goes:

-We start the fight from the ground, to the left of the platform where you first see Brutt. I was having problems with my pet there.
-My DPS group stands over near Madgrigosa. I mount up for the pull so I can get into place faster. Once I dismount over there, I have no issues. My pet attacked just fine.
-One of the hunters was assigned to stand next to me. When he mounted up to get into place, he had no problem. If he just ran to his spot, his pet wouldn't attack.
-The third hunter in my raid was stuck DPSing over on the other side of brutt. He only had to move a few yards to get into place, so his pet was still in the buggy zone, and he couldn't get it to attack once.

A raid leader from the top guild on my server was on vent listening in and giving advice to my raid leader. He happens to be a hunter, and has had the same issue. I don't know what his advice was to fix it, since when he asked me if I'm having problems, I said no.

The hunters and I talked to our raid leader, and decided that we all need to be on the furthest side, and we all need to mount before we attack. I do wonder, however, if the pet is called/spawned after Brutt is engaged if that fixes the bug. The guy who was standing in the buggy zone never even tried to mount up... probably because he didn't bother to mention the problem until after the raid.

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 5:25pm by ProjectMidnight

I've had a few times each of my pets refused to attack the target. I couldn't find any rhymn or reason for it. So, I fixed it by clicking on the target and clicking the attack icon. The 'send pet' shortcut would not work, if it did, he'd come right back to my side. Pets are a bit buggy in some ways.

Next pet issue, stopping attacking in the middle of a fight. I've had the pets come back to me a few times and I haven't called them back. I'm thinking they are responding to other classes spells, like a frost nova or something. Could be good or bad here, not sure.

I give up. I didn't want to make a new thread for the post. And in my post I experienced the same bug. Pet did attack but got stuck alot and then would just show up attacking. I could still mend pet. So I'm done posting. Thanks

Plust just wanted to post for my first raid but its not important. Pets not attacking in Brut is. Sorry if I messed up your OP

Edited, Oct 28th 2008 7:08pm by Souliken

There is a very significant reason why pets not attacking Brutallus is an important issue that hunters need to worry about.

Brutallus has 7,351,300 health and a 6 minute enrage timer, which means that a 25-man raid needs to pull over 21,000 DPS *IF* none of your DPSers die. If you have 2 tanks, 7 healers, and 16 DPSers, that means each DPSer needs to pull over 1300 DPS to just *barely* make the enrage timer with zero deaths. Since it's a potentially mobile fight (running to the healers if you get hit with the flame DoT that does a minimum of 53,200 damage), people are bound to die, and no one wants to risk the enrage timer since it's an instant wipe, the very minimum amount of DPS everyone should be doing to 1800.

If a hunter that would normally do 2500 DPS on Brutallus can't use the pet because of the terrain bug, that drops down to about 1600-1700 DPS. that's a pretty big deal.

"Pet did attack but got stuck a lot" in Karazhan isn't relevant to this conversation.

The bug is not just an instance/raid thing , i have several alt Hunters and they all have had this bug at times , i put it down to usually having my pet on aggressive as when i change from aggressive to defensive or to passive it seems to clear it.

Can anyone that gets the bug try changing from whatever they have their pet set to , i.e. aggressive/defensive/passive and then back and see if it does clear it as at seems to always clear it for me ?.

I thought it was only me getting this weird bug so thanks for pointing out it was not just me.

I've ran into the same bug elsewhere. Not in SWP, or against Brutallus, but nearly every little stone, rock, log, or leaf on the ground will cause your pet to glitch, which is annoying as hell.

I pray Blizz is looking into it, because it is really lame. I don't want to have to get a Warp Stalker (assuming their teleport lets them get out of the glitch) just to have a reliable pet that can actually attack and tank my targets.

This is lame, right along with the Cower/Prowl bugs, and they need fixed ASAP. What they should do, is buff the pet's ability to traverse terrain, let them jump off of objects, climb up things, etc better. Especially for battlefields that have lots of debris...

If your pet gets stuck in this bug, Brutallus or no, the only way of fixing it that I know of, is to do one of two things:

1). Dismiss+Call: This will reduce your pet's happiness by 50, which means your pet will do less damage. Hopefully, you've got an in-battle happiness refill.

2). Run out of rage of your pet. It will either despawn (no happiness loss), or will teleport to your side (fixing the glitch). This isn't feasible in most Raid battles, though, as few battlefields are large enough to run out of range of your pet. Not to mention, if you're doing that, you're not doing things like DPSing the raid/instance boss.

If Blizz can't fix these bugs, then they should at least give us a "Teleport to Player" button, or something. I have nearly gotten killed because of this BS where my pet gets hung up on (insert one of the 38,478,389,209 little rocks, stones, etc in the game world).