I stopped playing Hunter at the end of mop, and something feels very weird with my pets.
I’ve always used a mouseover petattack macro and it used to be so smooth, I could round up a camp in no time. Now my pet seems to take 1 or 2 full seconds to receive the command to attack.
I’m wondering if they broke the minds of our pets or if maybe there is a way to fix this unresponsiveness. I also have less than 30ms home and world, so it should be way snappier.
The most likely reason is that your macro is broken. What does your macro say?
#showtooltip
/petpassive
/petfollow
/petassist
/petattack [@mouseover,harm][]
it has all that crap in there because it used to help peel it off the old target to make sure it would go to the new one. and in case there is a problem, here is my follow macro
/petfollow
/petmoveto
If I don’t need to move the pet I just right click.
My guess is that one of the previous lines (probably the follow or the passive) is slowing down the pet’s responsiveness. Using /petattack works just fine.
By the way, currently there’s an issue where your pet will overcap its own focus so it won’t use its Basic Attack as often as often it should due to how the automatic cast is programmed. So it’s recommended to macro all of your abilities with:
/use Claw(Basic Attack)
/use Bite(Basic Attack)
/use Smack(Basic Attack)
/petattack
If all your abilities are macros and they all have petattack in them, your pet will always switch to your current target immediately, so it basically nullifies the need for the mouseover macro.
I used to use such macros on my uhDK, but I found I often will tab and pull packs I didn’t mean to, even with a combat modifier. And I don’t think the macro coding you have access to can have a range modifier. Is this just a git gud problem?
This is actually what I intend to get around. I removed petfollow and petpassive, put in dash and petdefensive and so far it’s working alright. for some reason when the pet auto casts dash it forgets what it was doing and comes back to my side if it’s on passive, super annoying, but like I said by adding dash (and turning off auto cast) and petdefensive I’m basically getting the pet behavior I was looking for.
That is super annoying that the pet is over capping on focus, thank you for making me aware because as BM that is probably a huge dps loss. I’ll be sure to at least add those lines to some of the rotational abilities!