I had warlock get upset because I wasn’t healing his pet in a dungeon. I’ve been healing for like 3 years, I never heal a pet unless the tank dies and a pet takes over for tanking. Am I doing it wrong?
No, you have no reason to heal a warlock or hunter pet when health funnel and mend pet exist. That was just a dumb warlock.
My UI doesn’t even show pet HP.
If your pet’s dying, it’s not my problem.
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Pet lives dont matter. We got real issues going on.
I mean… wow.
I think the last time I expected my warlocks pet to be healed I was tanking Leotheras the Blind in SSC and splitting damage with him.
Yeah, haven’t been yelled at to heal a pet since BC…
If you have globals spare and something is taking damage to the point where it will die if that continues, you should heal it.
If a lock feels the need to stop their dps rotation and health funnel their pet then that’s on you.
EDIT: Glad I do keys with healers who heal pets when they take damage.
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Nope pets don’t get healed. Mouthy locks don’t either.
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Premise issue…
Assumption - Pets shouldn’t have aggro over the tank.
Assumption - Pets are immune to most AOE mechanics.
Implication - This implies the pet was actively taunting?
Conclusion - If so… thats on the lock.
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wait, there’s healing and group content in pet battles? I thought it was just some blizzard pokemon ripoff or something
never touched a pet in this game in my life
No, they’re talking about Warlock minions.
As someone who plays Warlock almost as much as this guy (basically dual mains), I say screw that guy. I haven’t heard of anyone healing Warlock pets in group content on purpose since Wrath…at the latest. Health Funnel is a thing and I’d hope they know that.
I don’t even display pets in my frames, if they are actively tanking as part of our strategy I’ll focus it too keep it hand and/or use the target of target frame (I target the enemy, the enemy targets the pet so I just mouse-over the targetoftarget frame to heal the pet).
I also used to group all the time with a friend who plays a hunter and he never said anything about his pet needing more attention from me.
I heal anything that needs healed.
If my actions contribute to my group surviving and doing it’s collective best then I gladly do it.
This includes healing/shielding pets, if needs be.
Pet’s are a significant source of damage by themselves and worth keeping alive too.
Depends on the situation. Pets can be a huge source of damage for hunters and locks.
If there’s Mana and time to spare I’ll CTRL+Z some damage from them, but I’m not letting a player die over a pet unless the player is ridiculously bad.
Heal a pet?! IN THIS ECONOMY??
Maybe it was a succubus and you let his waifu die?
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If I’m actively stopping MY dps rotation as a healer because a warlock managed to get his pet damaged in 2020 that’s on him.
This excludes pets being used as a backup tank or off tank for whatever reason.
Warlocks don’t even run voidwalker in m+ IF they even run a pet at all, it’s an interupt/debuff pet.
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The only time I focus on healing a pet is if the tank dies and it’s just to keep a “temporary tank” up until they are rezzed. The warlock should have managed their pet better and as for hunters they literally have to hit one button to heal their pet, actually I think exhilaration heals their pet as well which is also instant but a flat heal not over time. Locks heal theirs over time so they lose out on more dps but depending on the pet they’re using they shouldn’t even be taking that much damage to begin with unless the tank is losing aggro to it or their pet is pulling aggro on something else.
Generally my aoe healing is enough for pets though but I normally don’t have pet frames up unless like I said I actually need to go out of my way to single target heal their pet because our tank died or something. At that point I will set the pet as my focus.
But like I said, the only warlock pet that ever really takes damage is the voidwalker unless it’s like pvp. I’m pretty sure they designed pets in a way so they don’t take nearly as much damage as a player. Maybe the warlock should pay more attention to what’s going on with their pet?
Yeah pets are immune to most mechanics and most AOE.
I remember when they made this change in wrath, We used my VW to tank sartherion slightly in the lava with my VW for better positioning and lava wave spawns because my VW was immune to lava, breaths, and (i dont remember if he had a cleave?) for abusing stat scaling by double buffing.
Good times.