Curse

Young_Ranger · Mar 30, 2010, 03:49 PM // 15:49

Someone once told me that software can be generally classified three ways: features, bugs and aspects.

My pre searing pet has shown unexpected behavior while death leveling at the rez shrine on two different occaisions. This makes me wonder whether there is some software aspect to pet controls that I am not aware of.

After harvesting the highest level charr at the rez shrine, I noticed my pet attacking (and killing) a lower level charr and the Pet Control showed attack. I don't ever recall setting the pet to attack while at the rez shrine. It was most likely guard, maybe heel.

Next observation, the following death level session, after harvesting the highest level charr (using my pet to attack), my Pet Control showed heel, but pet continued to attack lower level charr (which I failed to notice until the green 0 xp message.)

Assume
Player, pet, and Charr are all tightly packed around the rez shrine;
The pet is flagged to Attack Charr A, but pet has drawn aggro from Charr A, B and C. What is the expected pet behavior of pet after Charr A dies and pet is still being attacked by Charr B and C? Does the behavior change if I am dead?

In the future I plan to click many, many more heel commands at the rez shrine.

Has anyone seen similiar behavior and perhaps know a reason for it?

FoxBat · Mar 30, 2010, 04:22 PM // 16:22

I have noticed pets sometimes attacking despite heel. Seemed to happen when I kept the pet on heel, switched it to attack on a target, and then the target died. The panel suggests the pet returns to heel at that point, but he behaves more like he's on guard. Clicking on heel again seemed to make him behave.