Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Are CH Specials ever going to get fixed?
Actually, the specials do work on wild pets as well as BE pets. Its just that you can't make em do it on command. If you think it sometimes works, its just coincidence. Right now only the pets decide when to throw the specials. The pet knockdown never has worked yet. This has already been a pretty long rant in the forums. There's nothing we can do but wait. you don't have to be patient, but we do have to wait.
Wokka-wokka
That's not the case (or at least that's totally different than my experience). I can get my pets to Intimidate, Stun, Blind, Dizzy, or Posture Down on command every time. The DOT attacks like Poison and Disease still seem a little unreliable, but I've been using targeted specials en masse lately.
Wokka wrote:
Actually, the specials do work on wild pets as well as BE pets. Its just that you can't make em do it on command. If you think it sometimes works, its just coincidence. Right now only the pets decide when to throw the specials. The pet knockdown never has worked yet. This has already been a pretty long rant in the forums. There's nothing we can do but wait. you don't have to be patient, but we do have to wait.
Vertexon wrote:
That's not the case (or at least that's totally different than my experience). I can get my pets to Intimidate, Stun, Blind, Dizzy, or Posture Down on command every time. The DOT attacks like Poison and Disease still seem a little unreliable, but I've been using targeted specials en masse lately.
Wokka wrote:
Actually, the specials do work on wild pets as well as BE pets. Its just that you can't make em do it on command. If you think it sometimes works, its just coincidence. Right now only the pets decide when to throw the specials. The pet knockdown never has worked yet. This has already been a pretty long rant in the forums. There's nothing we can do but wait. you don't have to be patient, but we do have to wait.
Agree w/Vert - haven't had probs with specials except maybe poison (haven't got a pet that does disease), butI always kill the creature before poison has any real effect anyway. Well, not sure about Knock Down and Crippling Strike -they don'tseem to have icons like the other attacks, so notcompletely sure if they work consistently. But certainly the others have been working like a charm. Now when I use 2 pets I look to see if they have different attacks. It's great when you can hit a creature with 3 or 4 different specials.
Now the creature will not always be poisoned, but watch for a -1 damage floating above the target's head, or if your spider is near several opponents, the combat spam shows the spider attacking multiple things at once. (Misses will not poison the targets, but you can see the attack is attemped if a group is nearby.)
Plague Strike behaves similarly.