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If your pet is in defensive stance, and the enemy in question either hasn't hit anything in a while or hasn't attacked period... they wont deem that enemy a 'threat'. When testing a thug/ff mastermind I frequently found my thugs would stop attacking mid fight if not ordered while in bodyguard mode. After a while of not being hit, they would lose the aggro flag I guess.
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Originally Posted by Neg_Let
Are pets not suppose attack held/mez targets? I had my Bruiser set to attack a certain minion (a communications officer) while the rest of my pets attacked other surrounding members. However, when I held the communications officer, my Bruiser returned to me attacking as if I had placed it back into follow mode thus causing it not to attack the officer...is this normal or is it a bug? If it's not a bug is there a way to fix it without having to remind my pets to attack a held/mezed target?
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Mezzing does tend to knock a target down the threat totem pole a bit, but I don't think a pet should automatically stop attacking it. That does sound a little odd.
Was that just a one time thing or does it consistently happen?
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For me, it happens when I hold an enemy, and have the pets dealing with non-held things. Then when the hold wears off (assuming everything else is dead or almost dead) the pets just don't want to attack it. I see the same thing happen on th thug/ff I have on test. Enemies attack, thugs start fighting. But after nothing hits for a while I have to start ordering attacks.
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This happens almost every time a critter is held. I am attacked by group or I aggro group using Twilight Grasp which causes pets to attack. I then hold the most damage causing critter or the mezzer of the group so that it doesn't prove to be an issue for my pets. If one of my pets has been attacking said held critter they end up stopping their attacking and move onward to another critter. If mezzer or heavy hitter is held and all other mob members are gone, my pets tend to stare at it and do nothing until the hold has worn off or once they're commanded to attack again.|
Originally Posted by Rush_Bolt
Mezzing does tend to knock a target down the threat totem pole a bit, but I don't think a pet should automatically stop attacking it. That does sound a little odd.
Was that just a one time thing or does it consistently happen? |
Either way it proves to be annoying; I tend to forget that one such critter has been held (hell the bruiser's stun attack tends to cause critters to be stun and he then decides to bounce around between targets leaving many undead targets which prove to be troublesome for my other pets) and walk way and if it's a clear all map, I spend a good number of minutes (once a good hour and half) to find leftover critter (was one of the Romanish maps with the cyclopes as a boss/EB, so freaking annoying trying to find that one last critter!!!).
So, bug or intentional? If it's not a bug could this be looked into? It's rather annoying, easy to get around sure, but annoying nonetheless.
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I don't think it's a bug. I think it's just henchmen deaggroing on enemies which pose no threat. Solution: actively tell them who to attack or put them on aggressive stance. It only happens in defensive stance.
It happens because Defensive stance only has them attack things which are threatening the party. Enemies that don't hit or are held... aren't generating aggro.
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Are pets not suppose attack held/mez targets? I had my Bruiser set to attack a certain minion (a communications officer) while the rest of my pets attacked other surrounding members. However, when I held the communications officer, my Bruiser returned to me attacking as if I had placed it back into follow mode thus causing it not to attack the officer...is this normal or is it a bug? If it's not a bug is there a way to fix it without having to remind my pets to attack a held/mezed target?
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