lol noob carbunkle :P

so i was going through haukke manor earlier as an arcanist. we get to the first mini boss and clear the enemys outside the door and are about to continue when all of a sudden my carbunkle runs ahead into the boss room and starts attacking o,.,O!
no one had so much as enterd the room yet and i didnt order him to do that... x,.,x

was just wondering if anyone had seen a pet do that before?

carbunkle jenkins?

All pets do this for whatever reason occasionally - It probably shares AI behavior with monsters in terms of coding somewhere that bugs them out.

I was in a dungeon once with my SMN friend, and we had a carbuncle suddenly go on a rampage, run ahead of us, and pull a group. o_O

Often actually you need to put them on Obey, that way they don't flip out and charge in. :)

Actually had a summoner in one of my parties accidentally pull the boss out of the room and onto us, simultaneously locking us out for a brief bit. Made me laugh.

ah i see...guess its just something im going to have to get used to then.
was pretty hilarious though :P

As a scholar I sometimes had this problem when doing Ifrit. If your pet survives the fight and you queue for it again. As soon as the protective circle disappears your pet pulls aggro instantly. Only way to fix this is to dismiss your pet and call it again.

In Haukke Manor, you fight a mob (one of this strange eye, forgot the name) wich run into boss room at low life.
Your Carbuncle isn't noob at all ! You told him to attack this eye until death and he actually do it.
Poor little shiny pet, he just want to obey his master T.T
(So, just put carbuncle into defense/passive stance right before CS in this dungeon to avoid this)

I was tanking a AK run and the healers fairy decided to go pick a fight with a succubus who tossed a fireball on her head. Didn't matter if it had to go through two packs to get to her, the little bugger was on a mission.

Pets are loose cannons at times.

I've had a pet pull the boss out of that room and I jumped over the balcony and towards the end of the stairs so she would reset.

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Originally Posted by Thagyr

I was tanking a AK run and the healers fairy decided to go pick a fight with a succubus who tossed a fireball on her head. Didn't matter if it had to go through two packs to get to her, the little bugger was on a mission.

Pets are loose cannons at times.

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Only Selene does this. Eos will get stabbed by Tonberry Stalker and try to heal herself (or anyone else within her range that Stalker got), but that's about it. No deliberate attacking or aggroing.

If the pet isn't in steady stance they will react to attacks made against them or their master. This is most commonly an issue in AK where the succubus AOEs have insanely long range causing your pet to charge through other mobs to retaliate. There are other dungeons, however, where some mobs are scripted to run away before dying, and the pet will chase after them, often aggroing other groups in the process.

The solution is really just to pay better attention to your pet. They do not randomly charge off for no reason. Just keep an eye on them and hit the 'heel' command if they start running after something you don't want them to.

happened to me several times but with the last boss of the manor.

my pet runs into the boss even though it's very far away. must be a bug, I guess.

I had never seen EoS act so stupid before, I hardly mess with her commands. Then this one time... She went and aggro a group of mobs ten miles ahead of the group and I was like wtf.. She went straight for them then got herself 0HKO'd lol it was funny. Thankfully the tank picked up aggro pretty quick xD

Since this happened to me in Haukke Manor, I made it a point to always watch what my pets are doing and command them manually.

Eventually grew tired of it and started playing as Black Mage. Lots of free keybinds too...

Eos likes to charge Ifrit too at the start of a brand new fight.. The party reaction when that happens is always priceless ^^;;