Pet skill activation questions

Pet skill activation questions

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Posted by: eldenbri.1059

eldenbri.1059

I’m experimenting with a different set of pets, and have a few questions:

Brown bear – defy pain.
- What causes the bear to use this skill?
- Does it protect the bear, the ranger or both? It has a range…
- What effect should you see on the screen? Does anything show in the combat log?
I’ve been trying to catch this in video, but the bear never seems to use it

Red moa – harmonic cry.
- What causes the moa to use this skill? (moa being damaged?)
- The one time I recorded it in the logs, it looks like it channels in three pulses. Is that right?
- Why does it have both a radius and a range?

Thanks for all the help!

Pet skill activation questions

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Posted by: GaijinGuy.8476

GaijinGuy.8476

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!

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Posted by: eldenbri.1059

eldenbri.1059

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.

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Posted by: Sagramor.7395

Sagramor.7395

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.