Game Mechanics: Enchanter Pets Not Dual Wielding After Level 29+

[nicemace]

while i was playing around in grobb tonight charming guards. i figured out why we cant make the ench pet dual wield, dunno if devs know about it or not.... or at least think i have figured it out heh.

so all the guards in grobb have a longsword and shield. now when charming i obviously wanna make him dual wield, however if i give him weps, they wont replace what weps he is currently holding... so even if i give him 2 weps it will still just hold sword and shield.

now cause the ench pet has sword and shield alrdy, when we give them weps, nothing happens. however mage/necro pets will take them cause they start with no weps.

i havent been able to test further with necro/mage pets to see if their weps change if they are alrdy holding weps.. (can be done just using different types, ie.. pet has 2 swords, change to 2 maces or whatever)

shrug just thought i'd share... i really would like my summoned pet to dual wield.


on live, i know for certain the newest weps would always replace the old weps, so if ya can fix that then our pet should be auto fixed.

[Haynar]

I know what the issues are with enchanter pets dual wielding. I currently do not have a fix for this. Because of exploits with giving pets weapons, this is not a simple fix.

Haynar

[guineapig]

Originally Posted by Haynar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I know what the issues are with enchanter pets dual wielding. I currently do not have a fix for this. Because of exploits with giving pets weapons, this is not a simple fix.

Haynar

Just curious. Is this some sort of enchanter specific pet exploit?
And by that I mean, are chanter pets are being nerfed because you can't reproduce this exploit with the other pet classes?


It would probably be a good idea to post things that are being purposefully disabled in order to avoid the massive amount of bug reports that occur. This is the first I've heard of dual wield being disabled by the devs and I have been on the server since a month into launch.