BEASTMASTER PET TARGET LOCK

[Dethard]

I rather like the way pet hate works just like mobs. I don't like losing NM claims from it, but I really think thats a separate matter.

I solo'd almost all my fistule kills as well. I didn't like the few deaths I got from unfortunately timed cytokinesis, but I learned how to work around it every time. my last 12 kills I didn't die at all.

I don't have to worry about someone stealing it when I melee along w/ pet.

don't you find that even when you melee along with your pet that the main targeted mob will change briefly with your pet hitting another mob? In that brief second your mob can be stolen if someone is spamming attacks.

[Xilk]

don't you find that even when you melee along with your pet that the main targeted mob will change briefly with your pet hitting another mob? In that brief second your mob can be stolen if someone is spamming attacks.

It won't. It takes several successful consecutive actions and attacks from another player to take it. If it goes yellow while I'm hitting it and my pet is hitting something else, and another player starts taking action on it, The other player will be damaging it, but they won't be able to get claim so easily. They will need to have at least 2 turns on it while I'm NOT hitting it at all. so if I get petrified and my pet stays off of the main target for several attack rounds, it might get stolen.

Frankly I've had a fight where the mob stayed yellow for 3 min while both myself and another player fought for claim. (I was actually a level 9 brd/bst for that fight.. and the NM was the beetle in ronfaur).

Also while AoE killing GoV pages in Ifrit's Cauldron the other day, I had crowds of monkeys the soem other players were trying to take. They got a few sometimes, but when whirl claws does 1000 damage on each its not easy to get hate, let alone claim. You can only take one of the targets that I am not targetting.

so you are right that it will briefly change yellow, but you are mistaken in thinking it can be taken that easily while you are melee'ing on it. If you are NOT meleeing on Fistule while pet has Fistule and 6x + pustules that its fighting, the chances of fistule getting stolen is much higher.

I never had the patience to go pet only on fistule though. Once I made sure to save tp for the rampage > snarl after each hate reset, it wasn't often a problem.

I agree that the claim loss is a problem, but I don't agree that pet target lock is the solution. I think it would lose something else that is valuable to do so.