Pet vs Crowd Control

[Krak]

Hi, my first post here. Sory for incorrrect bug report style, but this bug is as old as MaNGOS, I think. I didn't find any report yet.

Problem is that pets break crowd control effects on his target. This example shows how should hunter's pet behave with freezing trap.

How it SHOULD work:

pet PASSIVE:

pet is attacking mob - cast freezing trap - mob is catched - pet stops attacking and come to me. When the trap is over, pet stays with me not attacking

pet DEFENSE:

pet is attacking mob - cast freezing trap - mob is catched - pet stops attacking and come to me. When the trap is over, pet starts attacking mob again

pet AGGRESIVE:

pet is attacking mob - cast freezing trap - mob is catched - pet stops attacking and stays next to mob. When the trap is over, pet starts attacking mob again

It should works the same way with another crowd control effects which can be broken by damage (vywern sting, scatter shot, rogue's blind etc...) I'm not sure about other classes pets but I guess it should work like hunter's one

How it DOES work

Pet attacks mobs and players under all CC effects - so crowd controling is very hard without precisely controled pet.

[darkstalker]

i always tought that was done with macros

[Reve]

i always tought that was done with macros

I do believe a few patches ago B made it retardproof to some extent, making pets and some other abilities avoid CC'd targets.

R.

[faramir118]

More than a few patches ago.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Patch_2.0.3

It's there under the General section...

Also, I think I read somewhere that if you tell the Pet to attack (ie, click the attack button on pet bar) a crowd controlled monster, it will do it. Is this still the case, or was that changed also?

edit: I didn't make sense.

[Krak]

Also, I think I read somewhere that if you tell the Pet to attack a crowd controlled monster. Is this still the case, or was that changed also?

This is not changed. If you tell the pet to attack, it will attack, no matter whether the mob is CC or not.

I also find that pet still attacks when the target is under some kind of CC. It attacks rooted of feared mobs. I believe that spells where is written " Damage caused MAY interrupt the effect" don't make the pet not attacking

[Forusim]

Use Macros!

[Krak]

It's not problem to use macros, but it's anoying to have 2 buttons for one spell.

I don't want to call pet every time I cast a trap. So I have to use 1 button for trap and another 1 for macroed trap.

And I don't think there is a macro to stop pet's attack in the same moment when someone polymorf my pet's target.

Simply it's a bug so I reported it. Maybe some dev will look for solution ;-)