Mage: Earth pet will not Root a Player with Sow.
 

so now that i reached 49 i wanted to test out the resist rate on mage pet roots on players with high and low Magic Resistance. anyways when i went to test this with the 49 mage pet.. he simply would not root my level 50 druid friend, at all. he didnt even try to. we let it melee him for around 10 mins total time, he even tried kiting it just out of melee range for a while. nothing, he wouldn't even try and root. so at first i thought, "ok maybe its levitate," but he still wouldn't root.

so out of curiosity i guess he removed his Sow, and right away the pet attempted to root again like he normally would. so to make sure this was the case he cast sow on himself again, and once again the pet stopped attempting to root.

so it would appear earth pets will not attempt to root a player with sow.

here's what i think it is. or maybe has something to do with it. a Earth pet will not attempt to root a target that is already rooted. he just wont bother. be it his own root spell or another players. I believe that the pet is thinking that "sow" is a root, and there for not attempting to root his target if it has Sow.

Please look into this if possible, ty =)

I confirmed Jboots will also Block the pet from Casting root. making fighting a melee that has Jboots a biatch and very, very difficult to fight.

Confirmed. Earth pets doesn't even cast root on people with sow or Jboots. But the second you remove the speed buff they cast it again like normal.

I've seen this happen also.

confirmed this as well.

I hate to break it to you pal, but earth pet root never lands on EQ live PvP servers unless someone is naked. So if this is fixed to be anything like EQ live, you should not expect the pet to ever root people with gear on anyway.

Did you honestly think PvP was that easy? Just send pet then run away for a free kill? There's a reason it doesn't land, because it would take 0 skill to kill people that way.

Can we ban Wehrmacht again?

I am sure this also is what the issue with rooting and snaring removes sow, and how root will overwrite snare or vice versa, they arent stacking.

Can't confirm with SoW or JBoots, but mage pets sure as hell root my bard with selos and 80 MR from a drum 90%+ of the time.

This is intentional. The earth pet root issue is a non intentional bug that came from this.