Quote Originally Posted by Yopop View Post
There are always people out there who edit posts in their head and miss the subject.

Stray AoE can actually cause a pet to consistently turn to attack the casting mob. This can cause the target mob to go unclaimed and people will take that chance to steal that claim. By using heel you risk the chance of again losing claim. Spamming Fight on the intended target is about all you can do. You an get AoE from mobs from other parties and aliances still which sucks for any pet jobs.

It's not player error if they get aggro it's the perk of having a pet. BST was intended to be a solo job it was designed for it and should maintain that ideal.

I believe when you get more experience under your belt as a lot of the bsts who are posting ideals on the subject you'll understand the frustration of pets. Do not take this personal but after 7 years of tweaks being done to every job and the same problems still happening to BST it gets old after awhile.

AoE from a mob that is claimed by another alliance isn't a player error by the way. They patched that a few years back so that you couldn't mpk by there are still mobs whose AoE can affect players and pets. Isn't that kinda common sense that outside AoE shouldn't affect a players hate?
"When I get more experience"...? I've been a BST for about a year now, and I've soloed plenty. Also, read my post, I never said AoE from another party's alliance was player error... but really, it is. If you have a problem with AoEs? Move. Not really that hard to get away from the mob.

It's not player error if they get aggro it's the perk of having a pet. BST was intended to be a solo job it was designed for it and should maintain that ideal.
How... how is it a perk of having a pet if you get aggro? It's a mistake on your part which causes the monster to attack you, which requires you to switch your pet's target and in turn make it draw hate, at which point it can swap between two targets because you couldn't be bothered to avoid aggro in the first place. It is an error. The perk is saving yourself from the aggro, but at the cost of dealing with your pet's hate list issues.

I'm not saying that I like the pet switching targets. But I'm saying that it's also very easily avoidable if you're careful and don't make little mistakes. Aggroing is a mistake when you're trying to focus on a target. Linking is a mistake when you're trying to focus on a target. Not knowing to move away from AoEs is a mistake when you don't want your pet to go wandering off. And I'm not saying I don't do any of these too; in fact, it's because I make these mistakes that I learn from them, and avoid making them as often as possible to avoid the issue of a battle that could go horribly wrong if my pet's attention gets diverted.