Creature Handler Archive

Since the last patch I am having horrible problems with my grouped pets running away once they are attacked. This only seems to happen when they draw agro without being commanded to fight.

Example. Was fighting some Toturs(sic) on Talus last night. I did not want to have my pets involved in the battles so I parked them about 80m from the lair. I draw agro and kill off the 1st 5 spawns np. 2nd wave starts to spawn I am engaged with 1 and a 2nd spawns and runs off towards my pets..theone pet who was agro starts running and does not stop till he is offscreen. Had this happen everytime that a grouped pet drawsagro without being commanded into the fight.

I have been a MCH since earlyAug of last year.Never had this problem till after the last patch. I am having the occasional "poofing" of pets as it seems everyone else is but this problemseems to plague me every other fight. I am a Jedi/MCH so most timesI just keep my petsout of range so they dont suckup my xp or to help me break lairs.I can command a pet to attack and there is zero problem.No running ect...

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this same problem. Thanks

Sin'jin Storm, Pre-cu Jedi
Saxiff Stormborn, Master Rifleman/MBH
Tempest...
Chaos

To those who fight for it.....Life has a flavor the protected never know.

yes that happened to me today while fighting rancors. once my pet got attacked it started running and wouldnt stop, finnally I had to /peace store my pet and try again, he didnt run this time but he did disapeare on me something hast to be done about both of these problems.

Aviara
<> Baby Jedi <> Storm Squadron Ace <>
Dont be so proud of this technological terror you've created

my pets dont have time to run, their either dead in one hit from a lightsaber or poofed long before they get the chance :/.

november 5th 2005- greatest hotfix ever
" you may now board shuttle while burstrunning, running normally, shuffling, walking, standing, sitting, prone, hopskipping, jumping, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, YOU MAY NOW BOARD SHUTTLE WHILE BREATHING!!!!"

Severan T'iam (Valcyn) RIP 7/2/2003-5/8/2005.
Master Nerf herder (oops I mean CH oops CH is gone but never forgotten)
SWG: Quote: Grand moff Tarkin: The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. you my friend are all thats left of their religon. Except for the other 5000 over there...

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Proinsias MacGiollaCumhaíll
i R Commando
Ronin

yep, run

I wish I could have posted that first.

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Pickaroon - MCH, Master Pistoleer, Elder Geek
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Severan T'iam (Valcyn) RIP 7/2/2003-5/8/2005.
Master Nerf herder (oops I mean CH oops CH is gone but never forgotten)
SWG: Quote: Grand moff Tarkin: The Jedi are extinct, their fire has gone out of the universe. you my friend are all thats left of their religon. Except for the other 5000 over there...

If you examine your "Natural" pets, you will notice that most of them have a ferocity of ZERO. Even the high level "Super" pets like Mereks and stuff. My battlelord collection has a ferocity of zero, as does my Mutant Baz Nich collection. Interestingly enough, my Carniverous Nuna has a ferocity of 5. (I am the man with the chickens of DOOM!) Evidently Bio engineers cried about how natural pets were more ferocious than what they were making, and they thought we were too powerful, so the devs dropped most pets to zero. A fix I discovered for this is, Hotkey the attack command (Use /tellpet attack) and hit it three times. 90% of the time, the pet will stop and re-attack the target, and there is NO combat delay for tellpet, so you dont need to wait 10 seconds for it to go off.

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All the time...this bites! Really hope they fix this problem. This happened to me just last night while fighting and ancient bull rancor. They went poof about halfway into him. Right about the time they disappeared, another ancient spawned and attacked. I still almost killed the first ancient, but got killed anyway. I need armor! LOL.

TKM
MCH
Hero of Tatooine
Wookie Extraordinaire

My Gurrcat and I were tearing up the Fort last night, then suddenly he took off running up into the cave. I finally caught up to him near the entrance, of course he decided to attack a group of about 10 Tuskens, 3 of which were warlords. Man did I want to grab the rolled up newspaper after that stunt.

sometimes pets appear to be running away when they actually are trying to fight. the problem is the ideal range issues for AI's especially when you have different body sizes (large vs small). problem has existed forover a year i believewith no resolution.

the other problem i've been having as far as pets are concerned is my pets continue to not stay where and when i tell them too. they may stay at a spot for a few seconds, but begin to start following me again. huge annoyance and resulted in numerous deathblows to pets in PvE when it shouldnt have happened. this problem existed for months if not longer with no resolution.

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Kawika MacGuyver
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