why are the pets so dumb....

[weberran]

Or is it just me? Since test is down I went back to my shammy on live. Lvl 18 rakurr shaman. Why is it that our pets are not smart enough to follow us defend us and defend themselves?

If I set the pet to follow me it will not defend me if I get attacked and I dont think it will defend itself. If I set it to defend me it will follow and attack what attacks me, but if I then send it to attack a mob I have to tell it defend me again after each fight.

Seems to me in other games I have played EQ1 for example, pets would follow you defend you and defend themsleves automatically. You dont have to retell them after each fight.

Why cant we have intelligent pets? Also why is it when told to defend you they have to stand virtually on top of you? Cant they have a heel position they return to after a fight without being right under your feet?

Also I noticed on my necro that the abomination would very often stay standing on the corpse of the mob just killed instead of moving off to its normal position. Really annoying having to back up all the time just to get the pet off the corpse so you can loot it.

regards

[SwordMage]

If they were smart, they still would be roaming free in their home range, not tagging along with a spooky humanoid. Its a product of the system, you only catch the stupid ones.

[weberran]

Originally Posted by SwordMage

If they were smart, they still would be roaming free in their home range, not tagging along with a spooky humanoid. Its a product of the system, you only catch the stupid ones.

LOL aint that the truth heheh

[Myrdinn]

:-S

Let me tell you a story, a story of a hapless Jedi and his cousin. His cousin, a bio-engineer, loved making attack durnies. (attack bunnies)

Basically, the Jedi would wait around on Dathomir, whilst his BE cousin would sample the badest of the nasties there, and cram the results into an durnie.

Enter something called the Corevette (in the bygone days when that took a good sized group to handle). One of said experiments had just a tad too much rancor and spider in him... and aggro'd everything. *Everything.* One bite, and off to the next mob... did I meantion each mob would then charge the BE/CH cousin and the Jedi?

You don't want to know how nasty that was, especially without a buffer to rebuff the rather annoyed Jedi and the BE who loved his attack durnies.

Moral of the story: sometimes, it's nice to have a critter that won't get TOO much attention (oh, and in those days, mls+mdef with ls toughness rocked everything).

[Darkmoore]

Originally Posted by Myrdinn

(oh, and in those days, mls+mdef with ls toughness rocked everything).

Ahh, those were the days.


Great. Now I'm a sad little psycho.

[Ysharros]

Hah, you sprats!! I remember the days when CHs actually counted for something!

Man, some days I miss my bio-engineer...