Creature Handler Archive

I have realized an interesting feature of pet specials in the last few days. These commands not only cause the state effect, but a separate attack to do so!

While your pet attacks once every two seconds (or close for BE), the special attacks will occur between them. By ordering your pet to continuously use its specials, you are making them attack roughly once a second, with the added bonus of a state effect.

Further I have noticed that attacks from a special tend to do damage as listed in the datapad or examine. (Some of you may have followed the thread or known that pet auto-attack does significantly less than that displayed.) So in most cases, you are more than doubling your pets' damage output!

Is it a bug? Maybe. I'm posting it here so Vert can be made aware of it. Considering all the pain we have been through, I thought everyone else might enjoy knowing this as well. As a non-combat CH this has certainly made a difference in my fights the past few days. (I'm still weak, just not as weak.)

As a side note, this is also why PvPers with the looping attack commands seemed to notice their pets being more effective. They were.

I can't say I noticed myself stop attacking, but then my top-end weapon is a sliced CDEF. I don't exactly have anything to do in combat, if I bother at all.

My specials are all macroed and bound to my keypad though, so I could easily use those while firing off my own (if I had any). My mobility would be hampered, but generally my pets were tanking anyways so I did not need to move.