Another thing they missed up, as destro using voidwalker for questing, here’s what happens:
1- Pet taunts everything around it (even passive mobs) which makes me end up killing 50 mobs instead of 10 for the quest.
2- Now once he taunts half the map and i have 8 mobs on me he manages to tank only one mob so i can’t aoe, have to keep it strictly single target.
3- He takes waaay too much damage and dies too quickly. I at least go through 8-10 voidwalkers a day.
4-He even taunts mobs running after other players that are just passing by which ends up putting me in a Shi-hole ( you can actually have fun with that, when you see another lock with his voidwalker out fighting a bunch of mobs, just mount up, run through a bunch of mobs, and drag them next to him and watch him get killed)
I agree that he sometimes dies pretty fast, caster mobs are a pain after you run out of stun/deathcoil etc. in torghast.
A long time ago he used to have two taunt skills, one short cooldown single target and one longer cooldown aoe taunt. But they merged them to the thing we have now.
But honestly, you even notice these things and dont play around it. Keep him passive, pull your kill target somewhere he cant pull 100 mobs and after he starts taunting its usually enough till they die.
And while in aoe you have to wait till he has taunted everyone, maybe change it from quick cast to use it manually because most of the time he taunts 1-2 mobs and after this some more are added as he uses it as soon as he can on any target you are fighting at the moment.
And of course he taunts mobs players are pulling near you, thats how the skill works. But again you could play around it very easy.
Im not saying our pets are fine, they are really not, but sometimes you just have to play with what you got. Maybe other classes dont need to pay attention to those things, but blaming the pet design alone for everything you mentioned does not seem right.
With the things above you could very easy save half the blue bubbles if your evil soul is interested. And maybe someday even a few more if they change the pets a bit.
It is. Sometimes it cannot get aggro. It is a shame that our pets (including demo) are the most useless and retarded ones. Moreover, they do less dps, longer cast time, and last but not least we are without interrupt because it is binded there.