Game Mechanics: Pet aggro too low

[Nimmersatt]

Hi, i just dinged 36 yesterday with my shammy and worked the last days with the 34 pet spell.
What i can say that the pet doesnt do ANY aggro or taunting at all.
No matter what spell is cast on a mob my pet will never get any aggro. I have to root down or tank mobs myself.

I played a Ogre shaman since 1999 on Solusek Ro server, had to log him in again to get the exact birthdate but as far as i remember i never had to root down mobs. I killed HG's in dozens back then or even IG's, but root was the kind of spell i never needed to memorize because pets could do some taunting or even generate aggro.

They are not meant to hold aggro on a permaspamming JBB oder blast in Malo,slow, and some dots ... but come on! a lill more, or any taunt at all would be fine for me.

[baramur]

Pet proc rate is way to low, sometimes my pet will go 2 or 3 mobs without proc. On live mage pets were procing fools. Pet aggro is non existant. I can let my pet beat a mob down to 40 health, cast 1 nuke and peel aggro. On live pet aggro was much higher. And in classic mages could pet kill naggy. Trak was even killed by a mage pet crew.

[Iumuno]

I'll just repeat what was already stated.

My pet has to do at least 2X my damage to keep aggro. And that's not even including pet misses, which I believe should add to aggro.

[Velerin]

Any possibilities on this one yet? I think it might also be tied in with the pets not casting enough problem. As a mage I can chain pet just about any single mob to victory but sometimes I really wish once in a while I could cast those fun nuke spells I bought.
Every other pet class has root to counteract the crappy pet aggro. Mage CC = gate. How fun would enchanter charming be if they didn't have roots?

[freez]

pets were never meant to hold agro


cant taunt anything over their level

not sure why u guys don't understand.

[Velerin]

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

pets were never meant to hold agro


cant taunt anything over their level

not sure why u guys don't understand.

Where did you invent this thought? Mage pets are meant to be tanks and hold aggro. Holding aggro and taunting are not even the same thing. A pet wont be taunting anything that's higher level than it but it should be able to hold as good aggro as a player tank if not better with melee + proc spells.

[freez]

charmed pets are completely different, they will snap agro because they do 3x+ the dps of a normal pet with normal pet weaps and haste.

[Velerin]

and every other pet class (hell every other caster) has a really easy work around for this...root. Mages don't have root. If pet can't aggro you gate or die.

[Nirgon]

Or kite it around. Much less viable in dungeon.

[Velerin]

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

Or kite it around. Much less viable in dungeon.

heh, even that isn't that viable most of time since the pet won't keep up with the mob to hit him unless its casts are enough to take aggro back.

I love mages but finally just gave up here and switched to enchanter. Crappy pet aggro turns a pretty easy solo class with a few tricks into a ridiculously 1 trick pony boring solo class.