pet control

[slashalot]

<DIV>is there a way to set the pet to attack what the conjurer is fighting and not just "guard me" ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>here is the typical seen:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>i am warden, wife is conjurer.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>send pet in to pull mob group (4-5) by time pet gets back i regen it and its good to go. i then begin tanking ( very easy to keep agro with damage and heals) so she can AE dot the things from distance but this is a problem as when the pets first encounter dies it just sits there as wife is consumed with fighting and casting and doesn't look around to see if pet is working with us or on lunch break.</DIV> <DIV>mind you we have no problem with these groups but just feels like a waste to have the pet on break.</DIV> <DIV>i guess i could wait a little longer to pull mobs off pet so they all hit it once which i assume it then goes in order to attack all that hit it right?</DIV>

[Loral]

<DIV>Pet will have on his aggro list (unless commanded otherwise) all the mobs that have hit either him or the Conjuror, and the mobs told to attack. Thus, you have 2 main choices here. Either the Conjuror cycles to all the mobs and tell pet to attack them all in turn, or she pays more attention when a mob dies to send the pet on the next one.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What I would personnally do is to have her get 1 of the mob, and go all out on it, slipping a couple of AoEs between single target DoTs. In the meantime, you try to hold aggro on all the rest. When she is done, she picks another and kill it, rince and repeat.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This idea behind this is that DoTs take some time to be truly effective, both to stack them and to have them do their full damage. So you basically have to hold all the mobs while she peels them off you and kill them 1 by 1. From what you says it seems you can hold aggro on yourself nicely.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Another totally different strategy that I use with my wife's Mystic would be to have the pet tank. The Adept3 earth pet (all 3 of them) are nice at holding aggro on a single target, a bit less against 2. If you fight 2+ mobs, Conjuror can use root to keep one out of the action. The idea behind that method is to keep the healer free of interrupts. Against bigger groups of blue-green, Conjuror is Tank for the same reason. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This last tactic (conjuror tank) is getting less and less effective as we level (currently 3<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />, as even the greens can do some nasty damage to Very Light Armor wearers. 4 of them hitting you drops your health too fast for comfort. So we rely more and more on pet tanking, and we try to stick to single ^^ yellow-orange targets, or duos of ^ where I keep one rooted away.</DIV><p>Message Edited by Loralor on <span class=date_text>05-09-2005</span> <span class=time_text>12:50 PM</span>

[Ben]

<DIV><FONT color=#cc3366 size=4>I use the Conj tank. But I also box my warden (who does spam heal me, to take agro away). I get 1. all mobs to hit me so pet knows who to attack and 2. Shifts agro to someone w/ better armor/hp etc :smileywink:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#cc3366 size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#cc3366 size=4>I do this in Feerott on spiders, Tae Ew, sattars and those scorpian raccoons :smileytongue: </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#cc3366 size=4></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#cc3366 size=4>lvl 45 Conj & 44 Warden, 'rott is like my second home... moving to EF soon </FONT></DIV>

[Xecr]

The mark of a good Conjuror is being able to control there pet while in combat and casting spells.It's not difficult to stand off to the side and cast AoE's and telling your pet to go attack a mob and when it dies, immediatly have it go to the next mob. I do it all the time, it just takes a fair amount of concentration.Recently i was in RunnyEye with an awesome group. We'd pull 8 or 9 gobbies and no one would break a sweat. The MT was killing so fast that by the time I had his target targetted and my pet on it, it would be dead before my 2nd AoE landed.It was here that i learned to cycle to the next mob. The MT would come back with 9 gobbies on his tail. I'd assist the MT, cycle to the next gobbie, tell my pet to attack, cast some AoE's, cycle to the next gobbie, Tell my pet to attack, more AoE's.Let's just say that my pet was constantly engaging targets, all of my DoT's and AoE's were landing with full effect, and we were pulling all the more faster <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Hotkeys are you friend. I have hotkeys to control my pet and to cycle targets and to cast spells.anyways...Xec