Easy pet management through some simple key bindings

[Kain]

I've noticed a few threads about how to control pet abilities. So I thought I would share some helpful hints, to ease pet management.

This is what I use! Under keybindings in the options menu. Scroll down to where it says secondary action keys, this is your pet skills.

I choose to bind the (4th) of the secondary action keys to backspace. The default action for the 4th secondary action key (example Voidwalker) is Torment which you can just keep on autocast.

By swapping Voidwalker Sacrifice (The Shield) with Torment on the pet action bar, my backspace key now sacrifices the Voidy and pops up the shield. Likewise by moving Succubus Seduce to the 4th slot of the pet action bar. Backspace now is the Seduce key, when I'm running with the Succubus and moving the Felhuntes spelllock to the 4th slot and so on.

You can access you pet spells from your own spellbook. By pressing p to open the spellbook normally and selecting the "demon" page.

Likewise i reassigned the paragraph key or whatever it's called (the key above tabs). To pet attack which is also found under keybindings.

I also prefer to have my pet on passive. So I'm always in control of what it does, unless in battleground (depending on pet) I sometimes turn it to agressive.

In addition I use this macro for self and friendly devouring magic.

/cast Devour Magic
/script if( SpellIsTargeting() ) then SpellTargetUnit("player"); end

This will devour magic of yourself if either. No target is selected or an enemy target is selected. If a friendy unit or/and player is selected it will devour magic of them instead.

Which is better than the normal Macro. Select "player Name" /Cast Devour Magic /Target last enemy. As this macro will let you devour friendly units/players and display cooldown, while not loosing auto attack, if you're a melee warlock and so forth.

If I want to devour magic of an enemy. I just click the Devour Magic icon, on the pet action bar with the mouse. While an enemy is targeted. Although this can ofcourse be bound to a key too!

[Teira]

Since you brought it up....how important is this in PvE ? With the exception of seduce, I have no other pet macros and all of their abilities are on auto. While I have always kept all my pets up to date as I leveled, I have never fooled with any of their abilites manually, again, the one exception being seduce. ( Dont everyone hit me at once please)

[Naridia]

depend are you one of those min/max people, I mean let it in auto is ok. but lots people like to control their pet. for example, I know someone acturally manually control the VW's taunt abilit (forgot its name). he said if you leave it on auto, it will cast it every time the ability is cool down, but he does not need that much taunting, so he manually control it so the VW will not wast too much on "not needed" taunting and left w/ more mana when he finish fight. but I personally just don want the trouble and leave it on auto. but I definitly adv use seduce and other abilitys on manual casue those tend to get you in trouble if on auto cast (I know cause I have seduce on auto when I first got it lol.) Over all, it does help if you manually control your pet, but does it worth the trouble, its totally up to you. For my friend who manually control taunt of WV helps b/c save mana for the pet, but to me, its not worth the trouble b/c my VW never really run out of mana in first place.

[Kain]

Originally Posted by Teira

Since you brought it up....how important is this in PvE ?

It's not important! Just handy that's all