Do pets AE spells break mez...

[Jai1]

<DIV>Was doing court last night and we were mezzing some of the 64 epics before captain.  I guess mez was really need so they said no AEs and no pets because pets have AEs too. I never thought my pet could break a mez before with its AE. Can this happen?</DIV>

[El Chupacabr]

<DIV>No, pets do not break mez unless specifically targetting the mez'd mob.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A pet set to passive will never break a mez, one that has a mez'd mob in it's hate list due to a protect self hit may but there is no inherant mez breaker from any necro pet (especially not any AoE).</DIV>

[Tokam]

<P>Um - sorry Chup but do you know if this extends to conjor pets as well. Grouped with a coercer over the weekend and his mez spells were breaking a lot. Although this was more likley the thorn shield thingie that the fury had placed onto the tank.</P> <P>Thanks in advance</P>

[quamdar]

are you sure about this because i remember one time after the combat update my guild was killing some mob and decided we would mezz the adds so i send my pet on the named and during the fight mezz was broken.  later after someone looked at the log they said it was a necro pet that had broken the mezz(believe it was the other necros pet but not sure).  i don't know for sure since i never checked it myself but always  just assumed that it did(the mage pet anyway). <div></div>

[Leawyn]

<span><blockquote><hr>Sulpeel wrote:<p>Um - sorry Chup but do you know if this extends to conjor pets as well. Grouped with a coercer over the weekend and his mez spells were breaking a lot. Although this was more likley the thorn shield thingie that the fury had placed onto the tank.</p> <p>Thanks in advance</p> <div></div><hr></blockquote>Yes, Fury's thorn spell affects a whole encounter, so thats likely that was causing the mez breaks.</span><div></div>

[El Chupacabr]

<P>I have never had a passive pet break a mez, even when fighting other mobs in the encounter.  I'd assume this extends to conjurors but make no guarentees.  If you have a pet protect self running they can get a little nutty with their hate list but a passive pet won't attack nor break anything in an encounter it's not told to.</P> <P>The second you zone in to wherever you're raiding, hit that pet backoff tab and they won't hit anything they aren't specifically told too.</P>

[Xalmat]

Conjuror pets behave exactly the same as Necromancer pets. Even when casting AE abilities, the pets will not break mez unless the mez mob is the focus of the pet (ie: I command the pet to attack the mez mob).

[Eriol]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that if your pet is on passive, then you command it to attack a mob, then change the target to attack another, then the 1st is mezzed, when the 2nd mob dies, the pet WILL break the mez on the first mob. If you back it off in between, then it won't, but if you don't, then it WILL break it.So it's not like the "will not attack mezzed" like in EQ1.

[Xalmat]

Probably right Eriol. If you tell your pet to attack one mob, then attack another mob without first backing off, when the second mob dies the pet will resume attacking the first mob.But that begs the question, why the hell is someone mezzing a mob to begin with? <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Eriol]

<blockquote><hr>Xalmat wrote:But that begs the question, why the hell is someone mezzing a mob to begin with? <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><hr></blockquote>To be fair, could be a multiple-encounter situation with more than one ^^^. That'd be a situation in which I can see mezzing being valuable, and perhaps the tank switching targets partway through, and thus you could be on the RIGHT target both times, but since the tank switched...On that note, I'd like to put forth my personal opinion that the tank should almost-never be the Main Assist. Tank's job is to catch agro, which CAN bounce around, but your group should be focus-firing on ONE mob at a time, and thus my opinion that an off-tank, or even a primary single-target DPSer should ALWAYS be the Main Assist, and NOT the Main Tank performing both roles.

[El Chupacabr]

<DIV>As far as I'm concerned, that's the main assist breaking mez and not the pet.  Once my damage rotation is on there's no way you'll get a mez off on the initial target anyways <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Once the call is on the main mob, that's it... target change rez breaks are nobody's fault but the tanks.</DIV>

[XBr]

<span><blockquote><hr>El Chupacabras wrote:<div>No, pets do not break mez unless specifically targetting the mez'd mob.</div><hr></blockquote>Except for Servile Soul, of course (see other thread).</span><div></div>

[El Chupacabr]

That's the crappy servile soul, not a pet as far as the OP's question was concerned.  If servile turns out to have a proper PBAoE, frankly I think that's pretty cool.  I'll test it once he scales but I wouldn't be averse to a dumbfire with PBAoE.