Battle Pets disappearing for good in Cyrodiil?

AnviOfVai

Anyone else noticing that their battle pets are vanishing in Cyrodiil when fighting? I was online last night and my Battle pets were chasing another player when suddenly they vanished! They did not return to me so I went back to the keep to see if they would appear as it might of been a distance thing... but nothing happened. I had to die to get my pets to recast.

It happened a second time too, so I thought I better bring it up. I have been using pets in Cyrodiil for a long time, and I know that they do vanish now and again and you have to back away from any fighting to get them to re-appear again... but this time its not happening... its not great when you are fighting a player and your pets are no where around.

Anyone else having this issue?

Biro123

yep.

They seem to get 'stuck' somewhere - could be miles from where you are. Sometimes they turn back up again as you move around.

I hate more when they 'warp' and fade/re-appear and/or teleport. It can be a nightmare targeting them.

TLDR, they're buggy as hell.

AnviOfVai

Well that sucks, considering my build evolves around my pets "distracting" players I am now a constant target with only 3 attack spells ):

Biro123

There is a plus though.. when your pet is stuck miles from the fight, they can't kill it to take away your necro bonus :-)

Aedaryl

Pets are buggy, the worst of that is you can't recast them cuz they are not dead, so you are in a fight with a useless curse and 4 skill less.

Simple solution is to make pets port to you when you ask them to come back, and port to the ennemi when you ask them to attack.

@ZOS_GinaBruno it would make pets not useless in cyrodil.

faerigirl

Aedaryl wrote: »

Pets are buggy, the worst of that is you can't recast them cuz they are not dead, so you are in a fight with a useless curse and 4 skill less.

Simple solution is to make pets port to you when you ask them to come back, and port to the ennemi when you ask them to attack.

@ZOS_GinaBruno it would make pets not useless in cyrodil.

Same thing was happening in PvE and they 'fixed' it. It sure isn't a perfect fix because the pets still bug out but it's far less than it was before.

If we could dismiss them and resummon it would help.

Surak73

AnviOfVai wrote: »

Anyone else noticing that their battle pets are vanishing in Cyrodiil when fighting? I was online last night and my Battle pets were chasing another player when suddenly they vanished! They did not return to me so I went back to the keep to see if they would appear as it might of been a distance thing... but nothing happened. I had to die to get my pets to recast.

You don't need to die, I think: you can - at least on ps4 - just unsummon them from your character screen, then recast.

Sweetpea704

Yes. Sometimes they disappear but I've also had a weird bug where there are two of them.

CaffeinatedMayhem

Aw, title made me think pets were being disabled in Cyro. So disappointed.

Yes, I am one of the old school that are really annoyed by perma-pets. 2 classes get a free pass at fighting anything while farming, dolmens, overland, whatever. Especially since both those classes have very powerful skills, and then pets too.

Haenk

In Craglorn, I found a place (invisible borderline) where both pets disappear (unsummon), and then need to be recast. Move a couple of steps back - poof, they disappear again. Quite annoying too.

AnviOfVai

Surak73 wrote: »

AnviOfVai wrote: »

Anyone else noticing that their battle pets are vanishing in Cyrodiil when fighting? I was online last night and my Battle pets were chasing another player when suddenly they vanished! They did not return to me so I went back to the keep to see if they would appear as it might of been a distance thing... but nothing happened. I had to die to get my pets to recast.

You don't need to die, I think: you can - at least on ps4 - just unsummon them from your character screen, then recast.

I am on PS4 and If you mean going into my skills and taking the option off my bar then sticking it back on again instead of dying...well I just as well go die instead of fussing with my bars each time. Otherwise I don't think there is any other way to de-cast them now.

AhPook_Is_Here

if you lost your pet and want it back, take it off your bar, put it back on and recast.

josiahva

AnviOfVai wrote: »

Well that sucks, considering my build evolves around my pets "distracting" players I am now a constant target with only 3 attack spells ):

If you are depending on pets to distract players, you are in for a world of hurt. I completely ignore pets in PvP unless I am using them to restore resources or generate ult.

ParaNostram

They're fixing this in Horns I hear.

Surak73

AnviOfVai wrote: »

Surak73 wrote: »

AnviOfVai wrote: »

Anyone else noticing that their battle pets are vanishing in Cyrodiil when fighting? I was online last night and my Battle pets were chasing another player when suddenly they vanished! They did not return to me so I went back to the keep to see if they would appear as it might of been a distance thing... but nothing happened. I had to die to get my pets to recast.

You don't need to die, I think: you can - at least on ps4 - just unsummon them from your character screen, then recast.

I am on PS4 and If you mean going into my skills and taking the option off my bar then sticking it back on again instead of dying...well I just as well go die instead of fussing with my bars each time. Otherwise I don't think there is any other way to de-cast them now.

No, I don't: just press "options" for menu, select "character", scroll down for active effects, select the pet and the press square to "remove effect".

badmojo

Its nice when I come across one of these stuck enemy pets... fast and easy ult generation.

AnviOfVai

Surak73 wrote: »

AnviOfVai wrote: »

Surak73 wrote: »

AnviOfVai wrote: »

Anyone else noticing that their battle pets are vanishing in Cyrodiil when fighting? I was online last night and my Battle pets were chasing another player when suddenly they vanished! They did not return to me so I went back to the keep to see if they would appear as it might of been a distance thing... but nothing happened. I had to die to get my pets to recast.

You don't need to die, I think: you can - at least on ps4 - just unsummon them from your character screen, then recast.

I am on PS4 and If you mean going into my skills and taking the option off my bar then sticking it back on again instead of dying...well I just as well go die instead of fussing with my bars each time. Otherwise I don't think there is any other way to de-cast them now.

No, I don't: just press "options" for menu, select "character", scroll down for active effects, select the pet and the press square to "remove effect".

Ahh I see awesome idea thank you! Hopefully there will be a fix later though