Pet skill activation questions
From what I know, pets will automatically use their skills when commanded to attack an enemy, or if they are set to aggressive and start attacking.
If you open the pet window you can see the skills that they activate themselves. They will use them in order from right to left.
For example, the moa has normal attack/heal attack/vulnerability attack. Going by this, the order it would use the attacks would be vulnerability attack —> heal —> normal attack regardless of how much health you or you pet have.
Hope this helps with some of your questions!
Yup, it helps in general. I did a bunch of testing with drake pets and recording them on video to understand.
As far as I could tell with drakes, the way they work is that they use the right-most skill (tail whip) basically as soon as possible when swapped in combat. Then they just use the standard Bite attack. The only times I’ve ever seen a drake use Chomp are if it is below half health. I suspect that a moa works the same way.
With brown bear, I can’t see anything on the screen or in the logs to indicate it is ever using Defy Pain. That’s the one I’m most curious about.
I was always under the impression that pet abilities that healed were only used when a pet has suffered damage. As for the thresholds for each I’m not sure.
I’m not sure about Defy Pain though.