Question - Mage Pet Tanking

[unknown0021]

Question on how it would be to set up mage pet as tank. Would you designate tank on mage .ini? When starting ka would you target mage or pet? Anything else i should keep in mind when using mage pet tank other than everyone be range?

Thx.

 

[eqgeek]

In my experience, you want everyone to assist your mage, not the pet. I usually only have my mage assist the pet. Then you have to be at the keys to engage the mob. Sometime it will work if you assist your puller at 100 with a large camp radius. Then the pet might engage as the puller runs back to camp.

Maskoi is working on a real pet tank role for the future. Until then, you have to control it a little.

 

[Maskoi]

Kiss can not pet tank. It can easily assist a pet tank if you are playing your mage. Just target the pet and run kiss normally. Assisting the mage works too but make sure you healers are targeting the pet.

 

[PeteSampras]

If you are willing to try something new, you can check out MQ2Bot. It will pet tank for you. I do warn that it can be laggy for mages due to summoned item inventory searches. So if you try it, either open up the ini or just type /bot CycleDelay=8 so it only cycles a few times a second rather than 30. Technically, you could turn off all the Use___ settings and set all the DoWhateverAt= settings to 0 and it would work in the background to pet tank for you while KISS.mac ran, but that is a little more complicated.