The pet at its worst.
Please just post your moments when your pet has utterly failed you.
Here is mine, this just happened. I was low on HP and out of resources. I ran away from a LB Ranger and used a corner to lose LoS. At that corner, I ordered my wolf to use his fear, so that the Ranger, when he gets around the corner, gets feared away. But instead of channeling his fear, my wolf continued to follow me. The LB Ranger got around the corner and downed me. As my pet closes up to me, it suddenly starts channeling his fear, completely useless, completely wasted. This AI is useless. Simple as that.
I would suggest detargetting before using the Canine f2s, so that they cast it immediately on the spot.
Please just post your moments when your pet has utterly failed you.
Here is mine, this just happened. I was low on HP and out of resources. I ran away from a LB Ranger and used a corner to lose LoS. At that corner, I ordered my wolf to use his fear, so that the Ranger, when he gets around the corner, gets feared away. But instead of channeling his fear, my wolf continued to follow me. The LB Ranger got around the corner and downed me. As my pet closes up to me, it suddenly starts channeling his fear, completely useless, completely wasted. This AI is useless. Simple as that.
I would suggest detargetting before using the Canine f2s, so that they cast it immediately on the spot.
This. The original poster was experiencing a fail in control of his pet. The way to get the wanted effect is in-game working as intended and available.
Yeah exactly. Keep talking, salty soul, I wont stop you. But let’s go back to the “it works as intended” thing you’ve mentioned. So when I target an enemy and activate my wolf’s F2, what do I expect? That my wolf starts running to the enemy and activating his F2 when he’s in range? Or that my wolf activates his F2 immediately? Both ways would be perfectly fine. But instead my wolf decided to run to me and use his fear when I am in his range. If that’s not a bug/lazy programming, then I don’t know what is.
have conditions on me
switch to brown bear and press f2 (on passive)
brown bear runs to enemy and tries to clear him of conditions
gg brown bear. gg.
Brown bear just needs a little AI adjustment to not run towards the enemy first. Red Moa doesn’t do it for example.
I think all the pets could use a little more AI adjustment. I, for example, would like to be able to send my brown bear to a teammate and clear his conditions. Right now you can’t.
I’ve had my fair share of situations with the Wolfs F2 not working, that I can confirm sometimes it’s simply borked.
I wouldn’t say only in critical moments when you really need it to go off NOW, but it’s those moments we tend to remember. I’ve had my wolf within melee range of both me and my opponent, and pressing that F2 simply does nothing. Press it again, still nothing, press it a third time, still nothing. You don’t have time for a fourth time.
Even tricks like F3→F2 won’t work.
I can’t recall that the exact situation you describe , Wusel, ever have happend to me, but like I said, we’ve had our moments for sure.
The wolf is an awesome pet in pvp. At the same time, you won’t get so frustrated with any other pet when it simply doesn’t do its thing – that’s in the nature of the beast.
have conditions on me
switch to brown bear and press f2 (on passive)
brown bear runs to enemy and tries to clear him of conditionsgg brown bear. gg.
Brown bear just needs a little AI adjustment to not run towards the enemy first. Red Moa doesn’t do it for example.
I’m aware of this and this is an issue that needs to be addressed. But that isn’t a global problem as the OP suggests.
As you said – other pets with similar mechanic doesn’t suffer from this handicap and it’s Brown Bear related only.
Yeah exactly. Keep talking, salty soul, I wont stop you. But let’s go back to the “it works as intended” thing you’ve mentioned. So when I target an enemy and activate my wolf’s F2, what do I expect? That my wolf starts running to the enemy and activating his F2 when he’s in range? Or that my wolf activates his F2 immediately? Both ways would be perfectly fine. But instead my wolf decided to run to me and use his fear when I am in his range. If that’s not a bug/lazy programming, then I don’t know what is.
I have no idea. I never had an issue with my wolf other than my personal fails. I never experienced a situation where a pet would run towards me unless I missclicked. If there is a bug – it should be fixed.
But to what you said about :
- Is the pet supposed to run to get into range and cast the ability
or
- Is the pet supposed to cast the ability on spot
… We currently have both. I have no idea which one is correct and I don’t really care since we have access to both of them. Why your wolf betrayed you – I have no idea. My never did that if I didn’t accidentally asked him to.