Level 49 Fire Pet not casting damage shield often
 

Fire pet is casting their damage shield very infrequently or not at all.

He will cast it - but there is now a 10-20 second delay upon summoning the fire pet before he will cast his damage shield...it wasn't like that before the patch. Fix please :)

I had my pet up for quite some time and never saw him put a DS up, and had him fight some monsters. Definitely ruining my exp :(

Hmm I was using the 44 fire pet...I was chain summoning in WFP last night and he would cast it every time - but like I mentioned there was a delay from when he was summoned to when he would cast - maybe higher level pets don't cast everytime? Its weird and definately a drag trying to xp.

Fixed, pending update.

This happens at lvl 34 as well. tried it with the lvl 29 pet too and same thing. Think its all fire pets. Sucks that it happened during double xp weekend.

awesome! i noticed it with my 39 fire pet as well... totally cannot chain summon or really solo effectively anymore :(

too bad with double exp weekend, was looking to bust out of 40!

It's not as big of a deal but there is also a delay between summoning air pet and when he casts invis on himself.

There was always a delay in between summoning the pet and it casting its spells, of a random duration. I think a dev once said it had to do with how many pet type mobs were up at the time, either in zone or server wide (I forget).

Log onto EQmac with a mage and you will see this in action. Sometimes it will cast very quicky, sometimes several (many) seconds will pass first. Very classic.

Ill have to do some research - I didnt play mage on live, but I dont ever remember hearing about that. Funny that there isn't any mention of that in any of the solo guides I've come across.

The mage pets abilities (damage shield, invis) should be inherent to the pet - after all the fire pet is a big ball of magma and the air pet is a wisp of air. :D