Question - Mage Pet question with Pullertank

[LurkMcGurk]

So I have been having an issue on some of my mages when I set them to puller tank where KA will "pull the pet off" (using Back) when a mob is running away. I am wondering if this is intentional at all and if it isn't how can I fix it? It's really bloody annoying because at least half the mobs that run get away because the pet wont follow them more than 20 - 30m.

Generally a pet makes up for my groups without a snare because they have the ability to hunt the mob down and show it whose boss but in this situation they aren't doing much hunting at all =(

 

[Meistro]

So is your mage tanking or the mage pet?
If it's the pet you should be using the pullerpettank notation on the mage (while targeting the mage).

But there is a "melee range" setting in KA and a "petrange" setting in MQ2Melee that might be affecting it.
other options w/out snare:
Earthpet
Root spell
kill mobs that don't run
kill mobs BEFORE they run
get a snare...

 

[LurkMcGurk]

Pullerpettank I meant to say, my bad on that.

I'll toy with the melee range and petrange and see what happens. Also going to switch to earth pet and see if the issue continues

Obviously your other solutions crossed my mind, if they were possible I would've fixed it using one of them. =P

 

[Warl0ck45]

If you are pet tanking you probably want an earth pet anyways, having the highest HP/AC (not sure if it's taunt is boosted since the changes) I know mine can pull taunt off an SK half the time (enough to make him work), at least with pet taunt on and no hate swords. With rage swords the pet holds aggro more then half if not most of the right over SK.

Air pet would provide higher DPS for slightly less HP/AC,and the stun would help with runners but not as effectively as an earth pet.

I been meaning to test an air and earth pet using the same focus on a few mobs to compare taunt....not to much testing on it before the change.

 

[LurkMcGurk]

I was using water, which is universally usually the only pet I summon. This was on the TLPs which is why i couldn't use many of the live tricks to solve the issue.

I really don't know why using an Earth pet didn't occur to me before. Probably because I am retarded. That happens a lot.