Seriously - Buggiest spell in the game. Half the time it gets glued to some random totem, NPC, or anything else and there’s no way to get it off. Half the time I summon the damn thing, it just does absolutely nothing (no, he’s not passive). Just played 3 games in a row where every Tyrant I cast literally followed my target and did nothing while my other pets were on assist/actively attacking. No LoS, nothing, just fix the demon please.
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you can control it using the petbars attack 
I’m fully aware. It does nothing when it bugs out.
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I’ve been having this issue too where he’s just running into melee range and chillin’ with the enemy, despite all the other pets attacking and me spamming the “attack” button on the petbar. It’s absurd. There was one match my partner and I just started laughing because I casted it while on top of the enemy, but he literally just ran into the middle of the map for no reason away from the enemy, then ran back to enemy and stood on him without doing anything.
That match definitely earned Blizzard the “Small indie company” quip. LOL
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!!! now use those council powers
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any chance it got interrupted? but to be fair, considering your context is on pvp and arenas have a lot of pillar/LOS’ing its also very possible he is acting weird due to line of sight (caster pet ai suffers with line of sight issues )
Nah, I was standing on a warrior behind a pillar with his stun/interupt down. He didn’t fear it nor casted reflect and he was in stun. It was just buggy AI. His Holy Priest partner was on other side of map and LoS too so he wouldn’t have been able to cc it in any way.
Makalath, I appreciate your analysis, but I can assure you that I have crossed the t’s and dotted the i’s - There is no explanation other than bad code.
I concur after testing it thoroughly too. The worst part is that I’m unable to steadily recreate it bugging out so it’s impossible to provide decent feedback to figure out how to fix it. I did notice it happening fairly frequently against a Hunter/Priest combo though. It seemed more often than not that the feign death and Fade would bug out the pet AI even after I would re-command it to attack those targets. (Fade kind of shocks me since you figured it would just keep casting into it while missing, so not sure why Fade caused it to just start walking around). I’m sure there are multitudes of factors at play though. There were even a few games where we had to laugh because the tyrant would just randomly swap to Necrolord Plague Marileth’s Kevin Oozling’s slime add unprompted and he would just blow up the slime LOL
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i have also recently noticed this issue occuring, after casting tyrant it just decides to run at a target as if it wants to auto attack / melee the target instead of casting its spell, it also seems to hard lock on to that target and refuses to follow the pet attack command on a new target.
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Tyrants demonfire spell needs to be instant with a CD matching it’s current cast time
This would make him more akin to a dot in that movement does not affect his dps (however he can still be CC’d)
It’s seriously ridiculous that a major cd can be completely countered by taking 1 step behind a pillar every few seconds to keep him running. His attack design is just bad
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Mine was doing this the other day and we noticed it just standing in the arena doing nothing. #fixtyrantblizzard
Should just be a melee pet tbh, give it the same ai and attack pattern as felguard and call it a day.
Here is a funny thing, Melee Pet vs Ranged Pet is an argument that shows up from time to time on this forum and on the discord, it always show in the case of “Current X is bad, Make it Y is better”
Last time i saw it was on 9.0 and it just happened that Sire Denathrius punished Demonology warlock from not being able to do dps with its melees pets on the ranged platforms (as they couldn’t cross to it) and requiring to move to the enemey to do damage.
Then now we argue that melee pet is superior as it don’t suffer from Line of sight issue.
When in truth i don’t think one is better than the other, both have issues and if there are issues those need to be solved.
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Yeah the AI is the worst. I wish there was some spell that you could use to refocus it. I love demo but this turns me off every time.
I just find it funny… now that more folks are playing tyrant demo… its constant bugs and poor AI are a lot more visible.
Tyrant Demos have been complaining for years about the poor AI… the melee runs… it was worse pre pet assist but sometimes tyrant just decides that it wants to be a melee.
Lol omg I have had those laughs, I’m just there I’m looking at it. In a wtf mindset.
Doesn’t get interrupted and will just start having “ren & stimpy” moments. Just starts randomly following enemy targets around.
Demo and bugs go hand in hand tho…
Remember when Fel lord would spawn in for a half global with 1 hp and instantly die to aoe.
Remember when Wild imps wouldn’t cast the final fireball because they would expire before it landed.
Remember when Demon leap would disconnect you 2 out of every 5 leaps.
Etc
Etc
Etc
Idk if we would even be able to enjoy demo if it was not horribly flawed half the time.
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All Hail Leeka Getting stuff done.
https://twitter.com/holinka/status/1537272730180997120?s=21&t=nO7UAF0Bz-DrjgIaR_aq0A
If only he was part of the community council.
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i have also been having this issue