Summoner Tanking Pet

[Maxcrafter]

Anyone know if the 5.0 pet changes, such as pets no longer being targetable; pet enmity goes to summoning player - have defeated the purpose of the Summoner's tanking pet?

Shooter

[gilmorej]

Yep, sadly, tanking pets got the axe.

[Daralii]

Yep, sadly, tanking pets got the axe.

And effectively nothing was lost, because the Topaz Carbuncle and Titan-Egi haven't been effective tanks since 2.2 or 2.3. Pet actions are listed at the bottom of the page. Titan finally has some use again.

[gilmorej]

...the Topaz Carbuncle and Titan-Egi haven't been effective tanks since 2.2 or 2.3...

Carbuncle / Titan have been tanking my overworld questing and solo duty just fine for 49 levels.

Just because they weren't useful in dungeons or raids didn't make them useless.

[Daralii]

Carbuncle / Titan have been tanking my overworld questing and solo duty just fine for 49 levels.

Just because they weren't useful in dungeons or raids didn't make them useless.

It's not just group content. Titan's enmity doesn't scale at all, so by the time you reach the mid-50s at the latest, he can't hold mobs off of you. It only gets worse as you level further, get more burst damage, and then summoning Demi-Bahamut causes his aggro to reset completely.

[Hasrat]

It's not just group content. Titan's enmity doesn't scale at all, so by the time you reach the mid-50s at the latest, he ecan't hold mobs off of you. It only gets worse as you level further, get more burst damage, and then summoning Demi-Bahamut causes his aggro to reset completely.

Your points are valid, but the fact remains, at low levels, Titan did serve as a passable tank keeping the player safe from harm.

I'm optimistic that the barrier functionality may serve well enough as a replacement, tho.

[Blindheart]

It gives you some kind of barrier now I think... Maybe? I hope? I really don't know

[Darkstride]

It's specifically been named a "support" pet instead since it comes with a defensive cooldown.

[Vidu]

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

The tank-egi will now fill the role of a support-summon and maybe will actually be of some use in day-to-day life.

[Vahlnir]

The summoner tanking pet never actually served the purpose of tanking, though - except for very few niche instances like job-quests. Other than that it has never been effectively used and was only called by inexperienced, leveling summoners and annoyed the hell out of the tank in question.

Idk, I've seen that chicken nugget tank better than some of the tanks I was grouped with at the time. He was more helpful than some would think.