With everything going wrong with beastmaster lately and a 3% slap in the face buff coming soon I really dont have the patience to deal with MY PET NOT ATTACKING, hes WALKING to the mobs. This is putting an up to 5 second delay on kill command, this just started today and maybe a bit of yesterday. Im spamming kill command and nothing is happening, I look for my pet and hes waddling up to the boss like his back legs are broken, WTF I cant handle any more nonsense, just fix my damn spec. Sometimes it happens mid pull, we are aoe’ing down a pack in mythic plus and I switch targets to kill command and… NOTHINGS HAPPENING. 3 seconds later the hit finally goes through. Enough is enough
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That’s their normal speed. Pet’s have a Dash ability on a 20 sec cd and last 10 sec and by default that’s on autocast and the AI determines when they cast it. When a pet zips to target, it’s because the AI just cast Dash.
I remember the days when Blackdamian would constantly boast and brag about his leet dps numbers
Now he researches pet pathing just to find any damage he can to keep up
You can feel the difference for BM Hunter between 9.1.5 and 9.2 through Blackdamian’s emotions
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Are you saying you are hitting kill command and your pet is still just walking instead of getting there quickly as per usual?
If so, that’s weird.
Yeah, I’ve noticed this too. I think the most frustrating was on Sylvanas - I’d rush to attack her while my pets would slowly waddle across that 2nd bridge.
Mine have been seen going to the npc, maybe a swipe or two then come back to me and repeat. Halondrus fight, the health bar acts as if theyre still in p1 when boss plants for p2, etc. Don’t recall this happening before this either.
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Yes the Sylvanas bug was hit and miss, sometimes it would happen, but I stopped noticing because I learned to put my pet on passive and that would make it move at full speed.
But now suddenly since the patch my pet periodically walks to mobs AND as someone else just mentioned here sometimes I use kill command and then THE PET STARTS WALKING BACK TO ME, until I use another ability that sends the pet in, since I have my attacks macrod to also pet bite/claw etc. If I didnt have that macrod my pet would not attack between kill commands, no wonder my dps is hurting. Something is completely broken. No thats not their normal speed Tinkerrific, they are not dashing on pull and they never had a 3 second delay on using kill command when 2 mobs are standing side by side. Kill command has ALWAYS been instant.
As for me bragging ya well my parses are even better now, Im almost 99 percent across the board for mythic plus for plus 17 to 19 keys. Which is why when I tell people that BM dps is not keeping up with other classes its because Im squeezing almost as much as possible out of BM and Im still getting creamed by good players that arent parsing as well. I didnt mind when our AoE was lower because our single target was much higher and in the end of dungeon my overall was still competitive because I really helped out on the boss fights. But now big AoE classes are beating me at single target too due to their 4 piece actually giving them benefit while ours is a negligible increase. Add to that sudden pet pathing issues where they are simply not attacking and its a complete poop show.
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Are you using a stealth pet? They have prowl which is turned on by default (and I have to fight to turn it off for some reason) and it slows their speed by a lot in exchange for an initial attack buff. Otherwise it’s probably the charge CD others have mentioned.
I’ve only seen this happen if my pet’s on passive.
Yeah, pets are good chunk slower than you in movement heavy fights, which is annoying. In Pantheon I’m usually expected to be in the group that takes on the back add, since hunter fast! and it takes a long while for my pets to cross the distance. They have to be in a certain range to charge, too. I may as well not be there until they catch up lol.
The most annoying delay is intimidation. I have to quite literally spam the button even if they are attacking the mob or the mob I’m using it on is right next to me.
Well possibly the bug is related to putting them on passive for a few seconds periodically. No I use ferocity pets. If having to travel a longer distance and you want to dps the new target immediately you will have to toggle passive on to get the pet to follow you. I noticed once it starts attacking again it toggles back to assisting me.
yea but i bet they are quick when they go to the lawn for a poop
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I’ve also seen it happen when they were given a specific target to attack before Kill Command is used and its a different unit then the one you just “KC’ed” and the pet will waddle back to the other target. It’s like the Kill Command doesn’t register it as a target change 100% of the time. I’ve also seen it in situations where other unit’s are attacking your pet, it will chomp on the KC target but then the pet will return to what’s attacking it.
And every time it happens I go Dammit I want Blink Strikes back.
You are not imagining things. It’s been happening all this week. Pet AI is glitchy as hell since last Tuesday. Ive ran like 10 keys and raided twice. Tried all pet classes too, same thing. then It would take seconds for my main pet to even show up.
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seen it since shadowlands came out… it’s like they just sit there… send again… they go. thats with both cats and turtle as a MM hunter. may be bug within MM?