Please give an option to turn off pet heavy attack targeting!

It's horrible.

Biro123 wrote: »

Mentioned it a few times. Its intentional - but terrible for Twilight Matriarch in PVP.

Yes, after looking more in the forums I've seen this mentioned quite a few times.

Either way, I agree that this should be completely optional.

ARgh.... and I find myself wanting to say "this is a Buff if"

But I can't even come up with anything.

@Drummerx04 was DPS testing at my home, where I have two dummies that are of a similar distance apart as the dummies in your video.

He goes to attack one dummy, and his pet runs off to attack the other dummy that he never even touched or aggroed.

It's hilarious how, with the introduction of a new pet class, pet AI has gotten so much worse this patch.

Biro123 wrote: »

@Bryong9ub17_ESO
Zos have already acknowledged the health recov bug and are looking at it.

Not sure if they are aware of the targeting issues though..

BTW, I've now dropped pets from all but my DW build (which does no weaving/heavy attacks)

Glad they are looking into it. Maybe the problems are linked and they both get fixed.

I'm sure know that they know something is up they will do some testing for themselves and detriment a fix.

Not sure if there is a way for someone to create an ADD-ON that toggles the 'heavy attack command' off or not... depends on how it's coded into the system.

If not, perhaps ZOS could add a toggle for us. @ZOS_GinaBruno Is there any way the development team could add a toggle for this option? Especially since now Heavy Attacks are heavily used for resource regen, it definitely causes issues for PC pet players as it overrides the 'Y' command.

I'm with the OP on this - and more.

I play solo due to medical reasons. So for me, the Clannfear is a major part of questing, especially going up against bosses, and more often, enemy parties of 3 or more individuals.

I can no longer put my pet on one enemy, and then start kiting/killing the others without him being pulled of the individual I put him on. I had to take on a party of 4 enemies this morning, and as I was switching from one enemy to another (depending on which one was getting close to me), my poor pet kept running from one to another enemy and not really doing anything because by the time he got there and got ready to deploy his tail swing, I'd already switched to another enemy. Sad ZOS, really sad.

Also, the health issue is really bad. In one fight with 3 enemies this morning, my pet died 4 times. I'd never seen anything like that happening. It seems like you look at him sideways, and he's dead.

Here I thought great, I got a bear tanking for me in Morrowind (great DLC/Expansion BTW), but the same thing for that pet. He's getting pulled off the enemy every fight that has multiple enemies. And some of the Warden spells are disappointing and don't help. For example, the ice spell that is supposed to slow down the enemies, to me it looks like they're walking right through it.

Please take a close look at some of these issues and fix them.

Thank you.

NOTE: Above player, Drummerx04, also has a very good post on these issues.