AI pathing issues make for inconsistent DPS. Making pets invincible in dungeons/trials was a step in the right direction towards making them more viable. Ultimately though, they need to deal more damage to compensate for the pathing issues. This would of course entail a buff to magden and petsorc as well, who are currently the 2 weakest classes in the game.

Being able to slot the pet skill on one bar instead of both?

Give melee pets a gap closer that procs on a fully charged heavy with a cooldown. For ranged pets, if they're too far away, at the end of your heavy attack have them teleport to your side.

Honestly having the pets move around and be more reactive like this would be MUCH better and fix pathing and dps issues.

1: Easily-visible summon health bars are extremely overdue. Make them clear, make them easy to see, and let addons use that data.

2: "Command Pet" needs a complete overhaul, honestly. Why can't I tell my summons to stand or guard at a certain location? Why can't I tell them to attack separate things? Why can't I disable my heavy-attacks from redirecting their target, if I want to?

3: Players could realy use some sort of 'hard-reset' utility for summon positions. Sometimes things get stuck behind walls, sometimes they get lost and the AI pathing can't solve a way to the player. That's fine, this game has thousands of arbitrary environments. Expecting perfection is unrealistic. Giving players some sort of function which teleports summons back to them, without despawning or killing the summon, would be nice. This might be difficult implement without introducing PvP cheese, though, so I'm not holding my breath.

4: Double-barred, toggle-based activation is a huge build utility loss, whether for bears, daedra, or future features. Please expand the Netch's timer-based ideal to other skills. I don't think anyone would have a problem re-summoning say, the Twilight Matriarch once per minute if it only took one slot on one bar to get those sixty seconds of effectiveness.

Bonus: Make Daedric Prey Great Again a party buff like Engulfing Flames! If we're going to have three separate summoning classes available coming up, giving the vanilla option the ability to empower the DLC options would be great for group utility.

Targeting in PVP. Players should NOT be able to hide behind pets in BGs and abuse the targeting system to their benefit.

Tasear wrote: »

What issues do people have with pets.

For me the biggest thing is that they are seriously blocking with interactions in content or ESO landscape has issues. It bothers me a lot in trials.

Also lets realove myth or fiction on pets stealing buffs

What about you guys.

For me, on Console, Pets should not engage an enemy until damage is dealt.

I often see people sitting still, waiting for the group to pull, and suddenly a Pet charges in an starts combat. This needs to be looked at and prevented some way.

Erraln wrote: »

2: "Command Pet" needs a complete overhaul, honestly. Why can't I tell my summons to stand or guard at a certain location? Why can't I tell them to attack separate things? Why can't I disable my heavy-attacks from redirecting their target, if I want to?

I would love it if my pet auto attacked whatever target I hit with curse. Make Curse a pet targeting ability. It would solve a lot of problems.

Necromancer without pets or just 2, like warden.

They should be instant cast, duration pets that last at least 30 seconds. Even in other elder scrolls games your conjuration magic could only conjur atronachs and other familiars for like 30-300 seconds.

The only permanent pet that should exist is the bear for warden because I think it's an interesting balance decision and it really fits a proper theme for the warden. Conjuration should not have permanent pets thematically. This would fix SO MANY issues in towns too.

Why would people go to the trouble of spawning pets every 30 seconds just for looks. I mean some might, but it will severely reduce server lag and make those builds more dynamic in combat. This would fix the bar space issue and their damage can be balanced accordingly.

Necromancer doesn't need "pets" They need attacks like warden that raise the dead execpt for a small duration of time. They should have 1 ulti like I said in your other thread in the healer skill line that does 2 things:

1 morph is an instant rez for 1(maybe up to 3) group members, 3 second animation raising from the grave (invulnerable), 10 second buff for minor vitality and minor protection.

The other morph is for DPS where you raise 4 skeletons from the grave that fight along side you for 20 seconds or something like that. Something that feels rediculous like Diablo, but attach that aspect to ultimate so it doesn't have a crazy high uptime. Make it feel like a strong moment where you swarm an enemy with your summons.

2 things come to mind.

1 pve perspective is that make them truly worth the double bar by making their damage more consistent or making them better to control. Like just let them teleport to their target instantly in pve so they can deal their damage right away rather then the ai borking up and they run the most goofy path to their target but disable the tele in PvP to prevent targeting cheese, speaking of which.....

2 pvp perspective the fact that pets are effective in pvp is primarily through exploiting the targeting system. I get the idea of hiding behind minions to attack people but it's just super cheesy right now with zoo sorcs (sithis forbid there are more than 1 in a BG match) using a flawed system to their advantage rather than the pets themselves be the danger. I hear its far worse on consoles as well but it ain't all that fun on pc either but I can imagine it being far worse for console players.