Creature Handler Archive

Aggressiveskin pets (red named)can be unruly and hard to control. The main thing I do with pets is keep them stored until I'm ready to use them. Traveling with aggressive pets can be tough. It's bad enough the follow bug doesn't work. And trust me, it's been that way for a long time. It's basically futile to let pets follow you.

To cure a pet attacking one target you can have them follow and select a different target, then attack. For some reason they won't break off of a target and attack another without taking them out of a combat state i.e. telling them to follow. When they run away from you and aggro something the only thing you can do is spam follow or a formation. I've not had too much problem... maybe because I'm used to it. I watch my pets closely. If they aggro something I make sure to spam follow to get them to come back before they attack. Keeping a safe distance away from lairs and targets makes it easier as well. I've been playing CH so long I guess it doesn't affect me, or I do all the right things to keep it from happening so often. It does happen to me, but not as often. The way I play I tend to not pull my pets out until I get to my destination, which is usuallyfar enough away from a target that my pets won't aggro. Crowd control, where more than one target is attacking, can be tough if your combat profession doesn't deal the damage to take care of the other target. I usually send my pets on one and kill the other, or if one pet has one target and two have another I'll focus on the one the one pet is on. Using common-sense tactics will go a long way. It used to be you'd focus on your one target because if you didn't you'd be dead, but the playing field has changed.

Until they fix the aggro bug (if it is a bug), the only thing you can do is closely watch your pets and have that follow command ready. Watch how close you get to targets.