It seems like growl is doing nothing. I’ll randomly pull aggro off my pet in delves and open world, and growl never takes it back. I will feign sometimes 3-4 times on tier 11 mobs in delves, each time just to pull aggro back. What is going on? (Not playing with misdirect, but I haven’t in years.)
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Taunt doesnt instantly grab aggro. Its a high threat move. If you ever played a tank with threat bars and tried to taunt off a dps u will see it go yellow instead of full green because you added a ton of threat to it but the dps still holds some aggro. Growl is the same way. Just pretend growl says that it does high threat.
Misdirect on bm is pointless your dmg comes from your pet so u arnt able to front load lots of threat from dmg from your hunter to the pet.
I understand–but my pet with growl on should be building up aggro so when I feign they should get well ahead of me. But then I’ll suddenly just rocket ahead of them. I have sometimes had 700% aggro or more than my pet, feign to reset mine, then end up pulling it off the pet again soon after. It makes no sense. I think there’s something wrong either with growl or something is giving me more threat than it should.
If you’re soloing you should be taking the misdirect talent and the one that makes your pet take reduced damage with MD
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Does growl not apply a debuff in groups anymore? I just got into low keys on my hunter for the first time since legion and had a couple times the tank went down so i tried to have my pet growl mobs off me but they dont get threat and they dont apply the debuff i see when they cast it open world. Growl goes on cooldown when i hit it so the pet is trying but theres no sign its doing anything on the mob.
The only other thing i could think of when this happens is that certain mobs are immune or theyre hitting the taunt DR instantly somehow so its just not applying.
Pets can’t taunt bosses in keys
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Wasnt bosses, was normal trash mobs at the start of motherlode when a pull went wrong on the goblins in mechs. Tried to have my pet taunt off as i kited back towards spawn, saw it go on cooldown, didnt see the debuff get applied to the mob, it continued to chase me til fient death came back off cooldown, did it a couple times later in but never seemed to work.
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I think they changed aggro dropping abilities at some point to not wipe aggro completely but sort of “deactivate it” while the character is out of combat, but if you get back in combat with the same mob and it hasn’t reset you get all your aggro back, something like that i think i recall reading somewhere.
On very rare occasions, I’ve also had growl stop working on a pet. Swapping to a different pet should fix it.