Fast-Kill Instances

[Manii Names]

<p>I need to preface this with the fact that i normally play a defiler or other support classes.  My conjuror is the first serious pet class I have ever played, and I am looking for some advice on how to keep the pet active as much as possible.  I have yet to play my conjuror much in instances with them, as I have primarily been questing / soloing / occasional grouping my conjuror up towards L90 so as to learn the class well.</p><p>I group with my friends and guildmates a lot when running instances, and we kill things very rapidly.  Our primary tanks for this purpose are either a Zerker or a SK, and they use giant mass-pulls.  In such circumstances how do you go about keeping our pet working?  Since the pet is a massive piece of our DPS, it has to keep attacking as much as possible.  </p><p>1.  The obvious method is /pet attack.  However targets can die extremely rapidly and then the pet stands there until I have it start up again.</p><p>2.  If I get in close and get AoE'd then the pet triggers if I have defend me set, so that's one way.  Standing close also helps with Earthquake.  However I also take damage / stilfes / stuns / etc from those AoE's, plus I could (theoretically) draw aggro and die.</p><p>3.  I could make a bunch of /pet attack macros, tied in with my nukes.  I think this would work, however...  If my pet is in the middle of casting a spell and I command it to switch targets, does the spell finish or does it abort?</p><p>Thank you for your advice.  I've really appreciated Xalmat's guide, and the feedback I received on my Small Conjuror Gear post.</p><p>- Primordial of Unjena.</p>

[Banditman]

<p>I am a "keyboard" player . . . this is to say I cast my spells using the keys on my keyboard, as opposed to using a mouse to click the abilities.</p><p>Given this, my method of keeping my pet working is to put my /pet attack key on my very first hotbar.  I use the minus key.  Whenever I am casting a spell, I've sort of trained myself to hit that key while the cast bar is up.  Thus, I'm constantly pushing my pet to attack whatever I'm casting on.</p><p>I believe some folks like to create macros out of some of their more commonly cast spells, such as Crystal Blast and Fiery Annihilation, which include the /pet attack command. </p><p>I simply prefer the more fine control to the macro effect.  With the macro effect, your pet will ALWAYS attack any target you cast those spells on.  For me, I will sometimes leave my pet on a main target while I nuke/kill an add.  Thus, I can simply NOT hit the pet attack key that I use and my pet will obligingly continue to work on the target I stuck him on while I help out on the other target.</p>

[Xalmat]

<p>I do what Banditman does. I trained myself years ago to make effective use of my /pet attack hotkey.</p>