My first character was a hunter, over the years I’ve mained or dabbled in them and I don’t remember AI being this bad?
Doing old raids pets behind me right behind run up to boss Kill command… nothing nothing nothing pets doing lap around the arena to get to boss…
Attack a target the pets stay there when swapping targets notice this alot in PvP
I don’t see warlocks having these issues when doing dungeons/raids so why are hunter pets so bad in BFA?
Trust me, the Felhunter and DK ghoul are just as bad at pathing.
Thankfully the ghoul has a jump, so it normally doesn’t glitch itself when you engage in combat, but if you take a short cut, it’ll just watch you and not move.
Pet AI feels like the only thing which gets worse with each expact.
Agreed… nothing worse than a pet suddenly randomly deciding that it’s not going to attack your target, generally when it’s behind you and just finished killing something else… Where are you kitteh?! I iz getting kerb stomped over here!
Thok also seems particularly bad on this…quite common to have to dismiss and call another pet, due to excessive slacking/sniffing the scenery.
Even better if god forbid, you have to call your pet back to you during a fight, and its get caught in stupid, pathetic, endless cycle of running back and forth to the boss/target and me.
Or when it all has to do is simply drop over a ledge with you, and it decides to go the whole way around 50 mobs and pull everyone.
Pet AI altogether in this game is so embarassing it’s not even funny anymore.
The llama AI in minecraft has more reliable pathfinder 
If minecraft has better pet AI then WoW I’d find that quite… allamarming 
This is why I almost exclusively use flying pets now. They get stuck on terrain less often.
Another strange thing that I’ve noticed is that pets don’t seem to want to attack a target that is not in their line of sight. I’ve had some annoying times in caves when my pets won’t attack a mob just around a corner.
Just play MM, it’s easier 
It’s better than it was and to be fair mobs use pretty much the exact same pathing. Not saying that’s a good thing but just keep that in mind.
If I wanted a petless dps class I’d be on my mage more 
Also levelling in dungeons as MM was a pain agro on every pull.
They need to revert w/e changes they made to pet AI though.
i play MM moustly been wondering why mods comes running hitting me like tank cant keep aggro or something keeps happening in every dungon .
Just try and use misdirect as much as possible if the tank doesn’t pick up aggro fast enough.
it’s not a hunter exclusive problem. for most of BFA my felguard was not able to hit the tentacles on the 3rd platform on the last boss in siege of boralus. they hotfixed that “recently”.
pet ai is a mess.
My least favourite part of the pet AI is that the rules aren’t even consistent. So many times I try to say “Please dismiss all pets, they’ll take the long way around and pull everything”, but the pet’s owner says “Nuh-uh! Last time I jumped the pet teleported to me”. They’re not wrong, but it’s a random edge case that only happens rarely. So then I watch the pet run and pull everything… and the owner is adamant it must’ve been me, I must be trying to give them a bad name. 
It should at least be clear when the pet will path around and when not. 
Its a beast, what do you expect? We train and command the beast but it still have a mind of its own.
You cant train a bear or a raptor to 100%, we can be lucky that at least the beasts never turn on us.
So we need to live with it, its a feature.
Are you really bringing that argument into a game mechanic? Why don’t we have to feed them to keep their dps up anymore…
in some dungons when pet attacks boss the pet even stands in mid air swinging it pawn hitting boss telepaticly from a long range but still do damage but it looks so silly …
I just did an invasion quest in Azsuna, I went to the edge of the platform to aggro the mob and my pets for some strange reason decided to do a full circle path and aggro like 5-6 mobs while I was killing the miniboss alone (thankfully I dinged after I killed the miniboss so I was again at full health)…I mean, really?? 
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