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Thread: Vert, can you have them make pets tank again
Its coming,
got a tip pets will be dripping with hate soon to attract agro, might not ever be listed in a publish
I am just planning onlooking for it ingame.
jopenack wrote:
Its coming,
got a tip pets will be dripping with hate soon to attract agro, might not ever be listed in a publish
I am just planning onlooking for it ingame.
I was thinking of posting a screenie as a suggestion... picture the scene....
* * * me riding my pet brackaset off into the sunset, with a big, fat "BITE ME!!" emblazoned on the brack's rump * * *
Think that might help it hold aggro?
Ohh and by the way
Vert caint "make" the devs do a d@mn thing. He can request that they put more development time into the CH profession but that dont have to listen.
Iakiimo
That might work
Might wanna try hanging some sythesteak from it too lol.
My pets have been doing all the tanking well enough.
I have smuggler 0044 and the snare and root abilities allow me to keep the creature right next to the pet.
Normally the creature would just ignore the pet and fight me but when rooted they stay on the pet...
I must say though that all my pets got gimped pretty hard in the CU and something needs to be done.
When fighting same-level enemies my pet either dies or gets very close to death, and I have to wait for it to come back to full before I fight again.
Check my cool tricks thread its totally possible to tank with your pets. First though you must allow your pet to build up his creature hate. That means letting the pet tank for plus thirty seconds. Then you can jump in with heavy hitting attack.
Read my cool tricks thread. You can actually get your pet to build up a creatures hate to the point where the creature will ignore you even if your doing 3.5 times the damage with your hits.
Tank fully functional people just need to let the pets tank for them. When your pet starts fighting a high mob wait half a minute before you jump in. You will notice marked improvement with lazy joe creature tanking. If on the other hand you are totally tandem minded you simply have to accept that doing all that damage comes at a price. If thats the way you want to ch for goodness sake get a profession with decent defense.
Dodece wrote:
Check my cool tricks thread its totally possible to tank with your pets. First though you must allow your pet to build up his creature hate. That means letting the pet tank for plus thirty seconds. Then you can jump in with heavy hitting attack.
Read my cool tricks thread. You can actually get your pet to build up a creatures hate to the point where the creature will ignore you even if your doing 3.5 times the damage with your hits.
Tank fully functional people just need to let the pets tank for them. When your pet starts fighting a high mob wait half a minute before you jump in. You will notice marked improvement with lazy joe creature tanking. If on the other hand you are totally tandem minded you simply have to accept that doing all that damage comes at a price. If thats the way you want to ch for goodness sake get a profession with decent defense.
I did.
Alrighty then,,,,I had a different experience last night on Dantooine. Our group was dying ALOT until I brought out my graul mauler to 'tank' for us. It was a huge success, my mauler just kept going after the critters and we were able to kill them only with his help! He did not run off and when he went down (once) I just used the radial to resuscitate him and he regen'd really fast.
I became very popular in my group last night I can tell you that.
So the longer something (be it a player or a pet) is fighting a MOb, the more Hate it builds up? Interesting...
Dodece wrote:
Check my cool tricks thread its totally possible to tank with your pets. First though you must allow your pet to build up his creature hate. That means letting the pet tank for plus thirty seconds. Then you can jump in with heavy hitting attack.
Read my cool tricks thread. You can actually get your pet to build up a creatures hate to the point where the creature will ignore you even if your doing 3.5 times the damage with your hits.
Grenn-the-Robe wrote:
My pets have been doing all the tanking well enough.
I have smuggler 0044 and the snare and root abilities allow me to keep the creature right next to the pet.
Normally the creature would just ignore the pet and fight me but when rooted they stay on the pet...
I must say though that all my pets got gimped pretty hard in the CU and something needs to be done.
When fighting same-level enemies my pet either dies or gets very close to death, and I have to wait for it to come back to full before I fight again.
No your pet isnt tanling, you snared it..big difference.
CH is a tanking profession role and it cannot fill its profession role plain and simple. The hate system needs tweaked.
Nice work around using smuggler, but in your case the pet did not tank. You stopped the mob from moving lol not the pet. You could have easily snared it without using the pet. When they fix root and such to break on damage like they are supposed to you won't be in great shape
Message Edited by Scoooter on 05-01-2005 07:36 PM