Quote Originally Posted by Flana View Post
Pet AI* has been fine since mid-Shadowbringers, that isn't the problem. Demi-summoning killing your pet is. As long as this awful mechanic continues to exist it completely screws with the default pet AI because the pet dies and wipes the action queue. I did a lot of testing near the end of ShB and it was near impossible for the default pet to drop/ghost an ability or not fit its entire repetoire in a 15 second window by itself. As soon as you include demisummoning, that all goes out the window and it becomes an absolute mess.

Demi summoning is the mechanical cancer infesting this job and the only thing that actually needs a rework, but SE continues to double down on the awful mechanic every expansion making the problems worse than before.

*Specifically normal pet AI. Demi AI is still a flaming pile of garbage and they can refuse to attack on summon unless forced to by an action.

Exact!
They created the problem of ghosting and unresponsiveness in shB. There was no such problem before. Previously the pet worked fine.
Instead of making it work fine, they decided, instead of introducing a new entity into the game, to lazily replace by resetting the "pet" entity, screwing up a system that worked perfectly before.

Here it is clearly not the fault of the pet system, but it is the fault of the lack of desire and laziness to introduce a new entity that acts as a demi.