I’ve played non-druid ranger trapper mainly for about 3 years. Responsive smoke assault(F2) + taunt was one essential tool to setup the coordinated trap burst reliably without old trap throwability (esp. against those guys with brain and all those stab/invuls/evasions etc., exact timing is hugely required for success). Now it’s gone.
For about smoke field, at least I could control random usage by quick F3 cacelling pet’s animation, but it never works for current non-F2 instant cast smoke assault. I’m not fan of passive mode, I prefer spam (with nice keybinds
) F1, 3 to maintain my pet control. Thus, for my playstyle, this pet lost its one huge advantage.
Honestly, I wish I could manually control at least two of four pet skills. This change will solve most dumb AI problems imo.