I have been experimenting with the talents. I am currently using PE with just the Fire elemental. I have noticed that it does not attack on its own. I have to actively click immolation for it to attack. The attack icon on its toolbar is also flashing, but its not doing damage. Is anyone else noticed this, or is this how the elemental is supposed to work? I have a hard time focusing my own attacks plus the elementals. Any suggestions?
If you said the auto-attack is turned on for it (flashing) than it might just be a bug. I know that in the first few seconds of summoning an elemental it tends to bug out for a second sometimes and not really know where its at, but not sure about it staying lost.
I believe the ability you want it to be casting the most however, is called Fire Blast. Immolation is an extremely minor DoT.
Yea, unless I’m actively clicking the attacks on the toolbar, it literally just stands there. Is there a way, (addon maybe), that shows the damage of elemenals/pets, or something?
You can macro
/petattck
To LvB and LB.
When I played lock and mage I kept pet on passive and just used the macros.
It save you from having to worry abiut micromanagement too much.
Biggest issue people have is they turn off the EE ability and when they summon FE they forget to retoggle it.
So I did a little experimenting again. I switched to Storm Elemental, and as soon as it spawned, it auto attacked whatever I had targeted, but not actually attacked.
The PE Fire Elemental just stood there, doing nothing, even with the auto attack button flashing. It only attacks with fire blast and immolation. So, is it possible that its really bugged? Wouldn’t everyone be experiencing this?
Fire blast is where 95% of the damage is going to come from so as long as it’s doing that you shouldn’t be fine. Earth elemental should be the only one that actually physically attacks anything.
Yea, physically. I guess I should have been more specific. The Fire Elemental has no animations, and does not cast Fire Blast on its own. I have to literally spam the button myself. I’ll keep working at it. It may be that I’m doing something wrong. I just don’t have this problem with the Storm Elemental. It auto attacks just fine.
Edit: Further more, the base fire elemental will auto-attack anything I target without me having done damage to it. The PE Fire Elemental will do nothing unless I actively hit fire blast over and over.
I would just double check to make sure it’s on automatic (glowing/flashing) and click them on/off.
Tbh, I really have no idea why it would do this besides that.
Just to make sure of everything: Make sure you have assist toggled and not defensive or passive highlighted.