I’m part of the problem? you’re looking for solutions but aren’t willing to look at all of the evidence about it. It’s pretty important to know that not everybody is having the issue. You have to learn how to use your demon and to control aggro with it. healing it should not be a problem because you have health funnel.
i pull threat off my voidwalker by putting up wither and agony and pressing no other buttons. that should not happen. it has nothing to do with “control”. the pet is either undertuned or there’s something screwy with threat
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FYI I’ve noticed this too as Destruction, I’m level 76 (I think) and it’s not any better for me than it was at level 71. Maybe at 80 it works out, but for now it’s an issue, at least for me. Not a huge deal, just replying here to help the thread get noticed by the devs! Have a good day all!
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You might want to snipe those Cinderbees with curses rather than pull large mobs.
The current problem with pets is they’re not holding aggro as they should. They were never indestructible at the start of an expansion.
It sounds like you’re suffering from end-of-expansion-invulnerability withdrawal.
I use VW for Delves and the Machine thing, he seems to do “fine”. If I’m single targeting something I’m gonna pull it off him, but AoE situations he does fine.
Drainlife even with Soul Rot is trash and not scaled properly.
As affliction @80 full hero talents, I do a few dots until nightfall procs then the mobs are all dead.
Leveling as affliction, it took a while on some mobs and I felt my survivability had been significantly downgraded.
Those bees were a nightmare. But yeah, once I scaled back the pull to only 1-3, it was fine.
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I recall back in the day MoP, Maybe in Legion days the Voidwalker could hold its own, not from SL to TWW it’s a hard pass. Solo play/open world is Demo for me. Blaggozin and I tear it up!
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In SL the VW definitely held its own as I frequently used it as an emergency tank in Torghast because the Felguard was terrible at recapturing aggro after being re-summoned.
Bro please just stop you looking like a fool. You must be new to these forums. Doesnt matter what proof evidence suggestions solutions you provide they will not listen. They only listen to the largest subscriber base or whoever makes it aware there is a problem and the topic receives SUPPORT from an overwhelming group of people.
I only state facts in this forum thats why i keep getting shadow banned for bringing attention to issues people like you try to discredit
It is objectively far worse than it has ever been.
Its inability to hold aggro on single targets is ridiculous. One wither one agony + drain soul is enough to get the aggro on me. Never mind the real single target rotation I would want to do on an elite at 80.
When 2 DOTs and a channeled skill are enough to peel aggro off it, there is something fundamentally wrong going on.
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Maybe the voidwalker will work better now that we got nerfed and dont do any damage. no damage= no threat
I use Voidwalker as Aff in world content and delves - it lets me be lazy and destroy several elites at once if needed. Doesn’t have much use out of those though.
I’m sound same iL and Destro will rip threat very quickly esp in Delves.
World content, I’m face-tanking rares with cookies and pact.
Demo Fel Guard and Hunter pets are envied. 
Ithpught it was me, but waanted a new Lock so made an esrthrn. At 15 my VW sucks. Needs heals and cant hold aggro so its deinfately somethingg in the coding.
For another note its not just Drain Life. Rejuvenation, renewing mist i rarely use on my healers and the only time i use my preservers HOT is right after an Echo or its trash.
In Blizzs infimite wisdom they decided that fun is po half the players.
Spelling sucks, was on a tablet and edit wont let me scroll back up to what i need to correct
I almost never used voidwalker last expansion. The Volkswagen pet can’t hold threat against my Destruction damage, so I keep my imp out almost constantly. Zorrot and I are throwing fire at everything and somehow surviving.
Summoned him during a bountiful delve earlier and remembered why I gave up using him for a long time, he just cant keep aggro, plus I’m dropping important utility such as a silence or a CC.
As long as I can either take a punch, kite well or simply go as demo, why use the void walker? I’ve been doing fine with my Incubus and occasionally my felhunter.
Hotfix for today.
- Warlock
- Increased the threat generation of voidwalkers’ and felguards’ Threatening Presence.
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A big win for locks.
I kept getting angry at my pet tanks because they could not hold aggro. It became very annoying.
Unfortunately, its still not in a good place
Blueberry and Felguard cant keep things off of me in delves…and Im pulling 1-3 mobs at a time…IF THAT.
Their survivability is also not great.
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Yup. Tested after last night’s hotfix. Still bad in delves.
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