Imp gone wild!

dogwatch · August 06, 2008, 12:57 PM

Wondering if anyone has noticed this recently.

I almost never never have my pet on agressive. Maybe i'll switch it on when I'm doing battle grounds or screwing around in stockades solo but other than that he is always set to passive.

But its now happened to me multiple times recently in ZA and Karazhan and a few other spots.

My pet dies, maybe I die and I rejoin the group resummon my imp. Somehow immediaetly after summoning he gets set to aggresssive and starts throwing fireballs, in effect pulling the next mob. My imp thinks he is Leroy Jackson apparently.

Of course it makes my look like a HUGE asshat beause the lock should never pull and the few times when it did happen it was after a hard pull or wipe and people are all sitting around drinking and rebuilding health and mana. People scream the obvious. Take your pet off aggressive!!! No shit.
I now have to summon my pets away from mobs and other toons so in case he does go aggressive he usally won't pull.

Pernicious · August 06, 2008, 01:05 PM

Hehe, I've done that a few times... oops.

Actually one mystery that took me a while to solve was that even while on passive my pet would randomly charge off and attack any mob that was close. I was freaking out about it and getting ready to submit a ticket about it when i figured out the cause. I had vent set to push to talk, and I happened to set my push to talk key to the "T" key. Now, normally that wouldn't be a problem, except that Pet attack is set to "Shift + T" and occasionally while talking on Vent, I'd hold shift to activate some macro and off my pet would charge!!!

Aghast · August 06, 2008, 11:08 PM

We were at Magtheridon preparing for the fight. I pull out my succy and before I can hit the Demonic Sacrifice the gates close and the event starts. Half of us were outside and we wipe big time. We start to laugh and go back for another try. At this time no one knew what was the problem.

Next try, same stuff, we buff up, I pull out my succy, bam, the gates close, we wipe. No one says a thing on Vent. After 5 seconds..."Aghaaaast, why was your succy on aggressive?".... whoops!

Zetra · August 07, 2008, 05:21 AM

Hehe, I also wiped entire raid on maggy, had my imp left on aggresive after a duel outside..

On thing you should do is put your Imp on defensive, and turn off autocast on firebolt. If you are grouped with tanks for blood pact they will also get fireshield from him... adds a tiny bit of threat.

/Zetra
Pipham always on defensive, but safty on, no firebolts

Nimpimpy · August 07, 2008, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dogwatch

My imp thinks he is Leroy Jackson apparently.

I thought it was Leroy Jenkins...

Unless ofc your Imp sprouts an Affro and starts singing 'ABC as easy as 123......... '

Now that would be strange.

mavric240 · August 07, 2008, 07:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zetra

On thing you should do is put your Imp on defensive,

I think the OP understands that pets should be on defensive or passive. The way I understand the question to be was if anyone else has notice a pet coming into play hot(aggressive). I for one have noticed my imp more so then any of the others attacking when I could have sworn he was on Defensive and I had not been hit.
I put in a ticket on it, but to date I have heard nothing back on it.

dogwatch · August 07, 2008, 04:43 PM

!!! Now i had my Felguard out and the same damn thing happened to me AGAIN. And a few times during the night i noticed my pets set to something other than passive.

I was thinking about incorporating a macro where it automatically set him to passive once he is summoned.

/summon Felguard
/petpassive

Howevever since summon felguard isn't an instant cast it was having some problems doing this.

Sita · August 08, 2008, 01:10 AM

I had some issue's with an over enthousiastic imp aslo, was thinking it was me hitting keys by accident ...

EEEK ! Are we on the dawn of the Revolution of The Imp's ?

Didn't Blizz 'fix' our Succy and by 'accident' nerf Doomguard and Infernal ? Maybe this is side affect ...

dogwatch · August 08, 2008, 04:55 PM

Glad to see there are some others out there. Never had this kind of problem before keeping my pets on passive but its seems like there should be some way to control this also by using the the /petpassive line in a macro.

August 06, 2008, 12:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
dogwatch Member Character Info Phearcat 70 Human Warlock Crushridge US PvP Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 6/45/10	Imp gone wild! Wondering if anyone has noticed this recently. I almost never never have my pet on agressive. Maybe i'll switch it on when I'm doing battle grounds or screwing around in stockades solo but other than that he is always set to passive. But its now happened to me multiple times recently in ZA and Karazhan and a few other spots. My pet dies, maybe I die and I rejoin the group resummon my imp. Somehow immediaetly after summoning he gets set to aggresssive and starts throwing fireballs, in effect pulling the next mob. My imp thinks he is Leroy Jackson apparently. Of course it makes my look like a HUGE asshat beause the lock should never pull and the few times when it did happen it was after a hard pull or wipe and people are all sitting around drinking and rebuilding health and mana. People scream the obvious. Take your pet off aggressive!!! No shit. I now have to summon my pets away from mobs and other toons so in case he does go aggressive he usally won't pull.

August 06, 2008, 01:05 PM	#2 (permalink)
Pernicious Character Info Pernicious 74 Blood Elf Warlock Dark Iron US PvP Guild: Dire Beef Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/52/9	Re: Imp gone wild! Hehe, I've done that a few times... oops. Actually one mystery that took me a while to solve was that even while on passive my pet would randomly charge off and attack any mob that was close. I was freaking out about it and getting ready to submit a ticket about it when i figured out the cause. I had vent set to push to talk, and I happened to set my push to talk key to the "T" key. Now, normally that wouldn't be a problem, except that Pet attack is set to "Shift + T" and occasionally while talking on Vent, I'd hold shift to activate some macro and off my pet would charge!!!

August 06, 2008, 11:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
Aghast Member Character Info Aghast 70 Undead Warlock Auchindoun Euro PvP Guild: Prophet of Destruction Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/21/40	Re: Imp gone wild! We were at Magtheridon preparing for the fight. I pull out my succy and before I can hit the Demonic Sacrifice the gates close and the event starts. Half of us were outside and we wipe big time. We start to laugh and go back for another try. At this time no one knew what was the problem. Next try, same stuff, we buff up, I pull out my succy, bam, the gates close, we wipe. No one says a thing on Vent. After 5 seconds..."Aghaaaast, why was your succy on aggressive?".... whoops!

August 07, 2008, 05:21 AM	#4 (permalink)
Zetra Member Character Info Zetra 70 Undead Warlock Laghing Skull Euro PvP Guild: Nordic Reign Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 0/21/40	Re: Imp gone wild! Hehe, I also wiped entire raid on maggy, had my imp left on aggresive after a duel outside.. On thing you should do is put your Imp on defensive, and turn off autocast on firebolt. If you are grouped with tanks for blood pact they will also get fireshield from him... adds a tiny bit of threat. /Zetra Pipham always on defensive, but safty on, no firebolts

August 07, 2008, 04:43 PM	#7 (permalink)
dogwatch Member Character Info Phearcat 70 Human Warlock Crushridge US PvP Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 6/45/10	Re: Imp gone wild! !!! Now i had my Felguard out and the same damn thing happened to me AGAIN. And a few times during the night i noticed my pets set to something other than passive. I was thinking about incorporating a macro where it automatically set him to passive once he is summoned. /summon Felguard /petpassive Howevever since summon felguard isn't an instant cast it was having some problems doing this.

August 08, 2008, 01:10 AM	#8 (permalink)
Sita Queen of The Valiant Character Info Sita 72 Human Warlock Ravenholdt Euro RP PvP Guild: The Valiant Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 22/41/0	Re: Imp gone wild! I had some issue's with an over enthousiastic imp aslo, was thinking it was me hitting keys by accident ... EEEK ! Are we on the dawn of the Revolution of The Imp's ? Didn't Blizz 'fix' our Succy and by 'accident' nerf Doomguard and Infernal ? Maybe this is side affect ...

August 08, 2008, 04:55 PM	#9 (permalink)
dogwatch Member Character Info Phearcat 70 Human Warlock Crushridge US PvP Profile: Blizzard Armory Talent Spec: 6/45/10	Re: Imp gone wild! Glad to see there are some others out there. Never had this kind of problem before keeping my pets on passive but its seems like there should be some way to control this also by using the the /petpassive line in a macro.