Question - Clarification on Pet Tank

[ugghh]

Please forgive my seeming oblivousness but I am confused by the difference between 2 pet roles. To date I have purely been using my mage in an assist role in a group but I am looking to begin using the pet as a tank in my leveling group.

Before I discovered MQ2, my favored method of pulling was to target a mob, send the air pet to hit the mob once or cast, then hit the regroup to have the pet come back, then click off regroup to re-engage when it was back in camp.

*NEW* Role=PetTank - This role allows for a pet class (Mage/Necromancer/Beastlord) to have their pet tank.
Role=PullerPetTank - This role allows for a pet class (Mage/Necromancer/Beastlord) to BOTH pull and have their pet tank.

I think what the directions are saying is that in the PetTank role the pet stays at camp and another toon in the group pulls the mob back to camp.

When using PullerPetTank, is the mage doing the pulling or is the pet doing the pulling similar to what I described with the regroup above?

Again if I said something that seems illogical feel free to let me know, I have only been back for a couple months after about a 10 year hiatus and feel like I have a lot to catch up on.

Thanks.

 

[1everdude]

If I understand correctly, with the PullerPetTank role, the mage is the one doing the pulling, though the mage can choose to pull with the pet if they wish.
I've only ever had my pet pull, but I think if you want you could put a spell or AA instead.

 

[TreeHuginDruid]

Clarification:

Role of: PetTank
Function: Pet owner and Pet stay in camp, and pet acts as tank, picking up the agroed mob the Puller brings to camp.

Role of: PullerPetTank
Function: Pet owner pulls, but has the option to pull with Pet as PullWith method.
Technically you can pull with Melee or Spell or Item, but this completely defeats the purpous of the role itself, and there are special conditions in place to make PullerPetTank work efficiently while pulling with pet.

 

[eqgeek]

Clarification:

Role of: PetTank
Function: Pet owner and Pet stay in camp, and pet acts as tank, picking up the agroed mob the Puller brings to camp.

Role of: PullerPetTank
Function: Pet owner pulls, but has the option to pull with Pet as PullWith method.
Technically you can pull with Melee or Spell or Item, but this completely defeats the purpous of the role itself, and there are special conditions in place to make PullerPetTank work efficiently while pulling with pet.

PetTank works with another toon as chain puller, assuming you have the pet breaking mez. Just be prepared that your puller will get a little beat down while the mezzer locks them down. The pet will not instantly aggro the mob, in most cases.

PetBreakMezSpell=Relentless Servant Rk. II

PullerPetTank is really great with an all caster group.

 

[Karmanation]

I am trying to figure out the pullerpettank in my group with my enchanter. The problem I am having is that my toons will quite happily sit there and stare at mezzed mobs. A lot of times the mage wont break the mez in pullerpettank

 

[Maskoi]

Do you have breakmez set up on you mage?

 

[ugghh]

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[TreeHuginDruid]

I am trying to figure out the pullerpettank in my group with my enchanter. The problem I am having is that my toons will quite happily sit there and stare at mezzed mobs. A lot of times the mage wont break the mez in pullerpettank

[Pet]
PetBreakMezSpell=Spear of Blistersteel Rk. III

Unless defined, your mage does not know what spell to use to break mez with!
All other toons should be assisting the mage, therefore picking up agro and assisting at their defined assistat value, once mezzed mob has mez broken.

 

[Karmanation]

Sorry for slow response time, but yes I have break mez spell set up on my mage. She will break the mez if I manually target the mob. The problem it seems to run into is it wont target the mob or it will hang on a targeted corpse. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it doesn't.

 

[ctaylor22]

It sounds like the mage is not set to be the MA or is trying to assist someone before engaging the next mob. Make sure the mage is setup as the MA..

 

[Karmanation]

Wil definently give this a try, TY.

 

[thisway]

Why when i pull with malaise im close to mob! i get hit and pet attacks. now theres 2-3 mobs.. PET will not come back to camp! (Why Not? ) Is there a regoups section on InI im missing? PLease and thank you!

 

[ctaylor22]

Do you have PetHoldOn=1 in your ini? What Role are you using, Puller, PullerPetTank,...?