[SUGGESTION] Sorcerer's Pets & Targeting

CaptainVenom

I've been playing a Summoner/Conjuration build for a while and, well... sometimes a pet target control is hugely needed (mostly when doing pledges and your group wants to, you know, avoid some enemies, but your pets seems to disagree with such idea). So here's my suggestion:

We have Daedric Prey as a damage curse, plus it causes target to get additional damage from pets, but what about Daedric Prey (cast by you) forcing your pets to attack the cursed target? I mean, when you cast Daedric Prey, your pets (but not pets from other sorcerers) ignore all other enemies and attack the one cursed by Daedric Prey only (while the curse is active). It could help a lot by finally giving us Sorcerers the power to control our pets and decide whoever we want them to attack.

Thoughts?

CavalryPK

I like the idea. but I would prefer a more complex pet control system. I want to be able to do more things with pets rather then chose a target to attack.

JasonSilverSpring

I am not sure if it would totally help in your situation but if you hold Y and left click on an enemy your pet(s) will attack that enemy. Now I am not sure if other enemies can pull agro them or not. Also, holding Y and right-clicking will recall your pet(s).

I do agree that it would be nice to have more control over our pets. I would love something like Fallout where you could send pets to a specific spot or even have them wait at a certain spot.

catalyst10e

I would like to have some options in the settings that let you choose options like "always attack my target" and "prioritize enemies in heavy armor" and such. But yeah OP, it'd also be nice to have something like daedric prey cause an overright and force them to attack a specific target

Karius_Imalthar

I didn't read the whole post but if you press and hold the pet command key (default is "Y" key) then left click on a target, your pet will stop whatever it's doing and attack it. If you press and hold Y and right click, it will stop fighting altogether. Even if you're attacked it will just follow you and not fight.

KochDerDamonen

In some of the talks about Morrowind (I think the OXM article? not sure right now) there's been mention of updates to summon/pet AI and ways to control them.

RebornV3x

I get what you mean I won't touch pet builds until there's a passive targeting feature that you can toggle for pets
For example: attack highest health enemies first
Attack lowest health enemies first
Attack boss enemies only
Etc would really help