Necro pet not using weapons

[jilena]

I have not tried with other levels yet, but since patch my level 44 necro pet will not use weapons. I give them to him, he takes them, but does not use them or dual wield.

[MrB]

Nor mage pets.

No slashing or piercing just hitting.

Poor fluffy :(

[jilena]

Yes I want to cry, no more fashionable shield of the slain unicorn + spear zulu pet !

[metatron]

BTW, necro pets dual wielding using weapon speed at this point in progression is classic! Mage pets were not tho =)

[jilena]

I would just be happy to have it back to dual wielding.

[BeepBeep]

Yeah mage necro pets lvl 29 weren't taking them either. ALL PETS BROKE AAAAH RUNNN!!! the world is ending!!!

UPDATE: i am noticing if you give your pet the weapons anyways, they do seem to hit harder then if you didn't

[jilena]

My alternate theory is that Abacab is stalking me and pickpocketting my pet as soon as I give him weaps.

[blakin]

My grinding has been slowed quite a bit now. hope it gets fixed soon :)

[jilena]

Abacab has apparently quit so that theory is now out the window.

[mixxit]

we made some changes to the pet messages but doesn't seem to be this that is causing it. might be a source issue?

[jilena]

I dunno before the patch I had pet lookin like a stone cold pimp zulu warrior dual wielding fs spear and shield of the slain unicorn... Then patch, make pet, feed it to weaps, groupies give it some weaps, no love...

I dunno if anyone said this on IRC but Enchanter pets are like invis now cuz they don't use the weap/shield they start with haha.

[Kiwaukee]

I've tried alot of different things to get them to wield, but they refuse.

Whatever the problem is, it's pretty game-breaking for mid level mages and necros. Are we going to have to wait until next Saturday or later to get this fixed? :(

[blakin]

I've tried alot of different things to get them to wield, but they refuse.

Whatever the problem is, it's pretty game-breaking for mid level mages and necros. Are we going to have to wait until next Saturday or later to get this fixed? :(

I would be a sad sad panda.

[dali_lb]

No pets is currently accepting weapons it seems post 5/1 patch. lol I found out the hard way (slam slam dunk .. You have been slayed by a Willowisp) .. currently only my highest pet summon (lvl 11) hits wisps :mad: plus also enchanter animations don't show any graphics at all. they also just HIT stuff, not slashing, so my guess is that something in the patch made pet not use weapons or items at all. The dev's really trying to do this as classic as can be ... when you fix something, you break something in the progress :D

[eqdruid76]

Word to that bird.

[Deathrydar]

No pets is currently accepting weapons it seems post 5/1 patch. lol I found out the hard way (slam slam dunk .. You have been slayed by a Willowisp) .. currently only my highest pet summon (lvl 11) hits wisps :mad: plus also enchanter animations don't show any graphics at all. they also just HIT stuff, not slashing, so my guess is that something in the patch made pet not use weapons or items at all. The dev's really trying to do this as classic as can be ... when you fix something, you break something in the progress :D

I was in a group last night with an enchanter, all you can see of their pet is their name plate.....it's kind of freaky just seeing a name fly around...

[amethyst]

Please fix - I'm gimp enough already!