Believe it or not, they actually used to be slower. I agree though, it would definitely be nice if they could keep up with Sprint, at least, but that may cause issues with the already shaky pathing AI.
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Pets are slow? weird unless I using a travel power they seem to be right behind me... When I get to a group of foes the catch up really fast,
If you tell them to fight they will run faster then you. Unless your a Controller/Domantor then you have to get in the fight :P
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Pet users trade "speed of play" in favor of "overwhelming damage potential". Basically pet users as an MMO class tend to be offensively powerful at the cost of having to position their pets correctly to deliver their full power.|
Originally Posted by Doctor_Embers
Pet movement speed is too slow. Please allow pets to keep up with the person they are following!!!
It would be nice if bots had flight. Or perhaps add a mastermind pet that has flight, e.g storm elementals. |
My guess is that even if the Devs of this game could make pets "keep up with the person they are following" they would not allow them to do that ON PURPOSE just to maintain game balance.
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Note that Beast MM pets can buff their own run speed. I've heard people complain that this allows the pets to run off after a target and get into trouble even faster than normal MM pets. Slower run speed gives you more time to call them off if they're about to do something stupid.
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I've noticed if you get too far ahead of your pets, they will sometimes teleport right to you after you stop moving. I could be super jumping through a city on my mastermind and half the time I land on the ground suddenly my pets drop next to the spot I land on and go through the summon animation (in my case my robots will have that box that drops and opens up and they come out of it). So in my experience pets have no trouble keeping up at all. And my robotics/dark miasma mastermind was my third level 50 character. 
Edit: My only beef is that sometimes my battle drones will stupidly use a ranged attack, then charge right up to melee range and use the same ranged attack again and/or a brawl like attack. It does look funny though seeing a little drone smack a bad guy twice his size.
Pet movement speed is too slow. Please allow pets to keep up with the person they are following!!!
It would be nice if bots had flight. Or perhaps add a mastermind pet that has flight, e.g storm elementals.