Pet trolling on writ hand ins...

Rittings

Not sure this is a bug, as much as it's poor thought into coding etc. However... it's rather frustrating when your own pet/bear/scamp gets in the way of handing in quests or writs - but it's even worse when other players seem to intentionally "troll" the hand in areas with mementos and pets/bears/scamps etc... it basically means you either have to wait for them to move (though I've witnessed many times when players know that they are intentionally blocking hand ins for lolz) or go to a different zone to hand in. This is pretty laborious to say the least .. anyways. Something for ZoS to consider in future patches

Nestor

I once popped the Cake thing near the turn ins when I noticed I was not getting the buff. Did not think about where I was, I said a Sorry in chat. Fortunately it was not all that close so easy to get around.

However a lot of us have wanted a Pet to despawn in towns since early beta. It used to be easy if you were a considerate player to despawn your Combat Pets. Now it is a bit of a faff to do this.

Here is what I do, I go to the other side of the containers and activate them from there. In most places it is just as easy as trying to do this right in front of them. And the pets don't get in the way.

DeadlyRecluse

I *think* it's usually an accident. The Warden Bear is the worst at it though, that thing easily occludes an entire writ box.

Hippie4927

Nestor wrote: »

I once popped the Cake thing near the turn ins when I noticed I was not getting the buff. Did not think about where I was, I said a Sorry in chat. Fortunately it was not all that close so easy to get around.

I did the same thing and the cake landed right on top of the Provisioning turn-in box. I felt sooo bad! I, also, apologized in chat. Everyone was cool about it.

I don't usually have a problem finding a way around people's pets and if I have to wait a few seconds for them to leave, it's no problem.

Rittings

Yeah, the bear is bad.. the clanfear and scamp too can be troublesome when they "clip" IN to the hand in crates. The cake thing is frustrating too... I watched four guys take out a wayshrine with their cakes. Their positioning was so perfect that no one could use the wayshrine to get out... funny for a few seconds - but when they stayed there for about 10 minutes doing it... not so much lol.

pattyLtd

Haha mine ended up on the wayshrine in daggerfall.
When i realized it made the wayshrine unusable i quickly teleported home.

Edit: talking about the cake btw

DiNanna63

I'm using the Pet Dismiss add-on. I've accidentally have had my summoned pets including bear get in the way at places. Now I can easily deactivate the pet using a key on my keyboard.

Shadowshire

@Rittings @Nestor

DiNanna63 wrote: »

I'm using the Pet Dismiss add-on. I've accidentally have had my summoned pets including bear get in the way at places. Now I can easily deactivate the pet using a key on my keyboard.

Since I don't play a Warden character, I cannot speak from experience with the Bear. However, there is no way to dismiss either the Scamp or the Winged Twilight without installing the Pet Dismiss addon and binding at least one key to dismiss either or both of them.

Originally, a player character could dismiss a familiar simply by pressing the same key that they pressed to summon the familiar. Then someone on the ZOS development team decided that pressing the summoning key again would activate the familiar's "special ability" instead -- and totally overlooked the fact that doing so removed the only way to dismiss a familar. Thankfully, the Pet Dismiss developer quickly remedied that oversight.

Rittings

You can go to your character screen and scroll down to your active buffs etc .... your scamp and twilight are listed there and can be deactivated

Shadowshire

Rittings wrote: »

You can go to your character screen and scroll down to your active buffs etc .... your scamp and twilight are listed there and can be deactivated

Hmmm..... I forgot that possibility. I've used that method only a few times for other reasons, although the View Character UI does include whether a familiar is active. ZOS didn't mention that as the way to dismiss familiars in the Patch Notes when they changed the use of the summoning key in the respective designs.

Zorgon_The_Revenged

Character screen, scroll down and right click on pet...........did I just state the obvious?

Mureel

Nestor wrote: »

I once popped the Cake thing near the turn ins when I noticed I was not getting the buff. Did not think about where I was, I said a Sorry in chat. Fortunately it was not all that close so easy to get around.

However a lot of us have wanted a Pet to despawn in towns since early beta. It used to be easy if you were a considerate player to despawn your Combat Pets. Now it is a bit of a faff to do this.

Here is what I do, I go to the other side of the containers and activate them from there. In most places it is just as easy as trying to do this right in front of them. And the pets don't get in the way.

I was on my tiny bosmer and unthinking did CAKE in the bank and I could not get out the bank door because of my own cake + my height xD

DoctorESO

Rittings wrote: »

Not sure this is a bug, as much as it's poor thought into coding etc. However... it's rather frustrating when your own pet/bear/scamp gets in the way of handing in quests or writs - but it's even worse when other players seem to intentionally "troll" the hand in areas with mementos and pets/bears/scamps etc... it basically means you either have to wait for them to move (though I've witnessed many times when players know that they are intentionally blocking hand ins for lolz) or go to a different zone to hand in. This is pretty laborious to say the least .. anyways. Something for ZoS to consider in future patches

What about people placing jubilee cakes everywhere, too?