Arcanist Pets need to have "Obey" as a TOGGLE, not a command.

[KariArisu]

Very simple.

Make it so when you use "Obey", it toggles the pet behavior.
Currently Obey is a command that tells your pet to attack, why not just make it a stance of some sort?

Sic then becomes a generic attack command, and your pet will either use the special skills if Obey is off, or refrain from using them if Obey is on.

This would bring a LOT of control to the Arcanist class, and prevent a lot of accidental skill use. Emerald Carbuncle/Garuda using their level 40 skill with no DoTs on the mob because you didn't tell it to Obey is awful.

Another great feature would be to automatically make your pet "Heel" when you run too far after using "Place". Often times I see people do this, then they run out of range of their pet and it unsummons.

[Kinthe]

This would be amazing. I'd prefer to be able to toggle individual abilities on and off admittedly, but this'd be a great change.

[Aladiah]

Make it so when you use "Obey", it toggles the pet behavior.
Currently Obey is a command that tells your pet to attack, why not just make it a stance of some sort?

+1

This would bring a LOT of control to the Arcanist class, and prevent a lot of accidental skill use. Emerald Carbuncle/Garuda using their level 40 skill with no DoTs on the mob because you didn't tell it to Obey is awful.

+1

please do something to fix that

[Lycieus]

In a similar vein, why is the default stance to guard? Why does the stance reset when the pet is re-summoned? We should be able to pick a stance and have the summon stick in that stance until we change it manually ourselves regardless of anything else.

[Redsuns]

We need toggle on/off for pet skills. Please use World of warcraft pet controls. Its good.

And also pet commands ARE BLOCKED while main character is doing a action like using a skill. It makes no sense you can only give commands when not doing anything.

Please fix asap.

[Xiyn]

Yes, please fix the Sic/Obey issues, they should be toggled or use the WOW style toggling of specific pet skills. It makes playing the ACN/SMN far more of a pain than it should be right now. We also need the ability to add pet skills to macros. I'm seriously missing the ability to macro /pet attack to my primary skills like i could in every other mmo with a pet class that i've played.

[Xaosyn]

For once I wish they would copy WoW.
Pet controls are really bad in this game.

[Lowgrin]

Even just being able to command your pets while casting would be a godsend.

[Brian540]

how about when mounted? nothings worse than running through aggressive mobs and losing my summon because i can't click heel.... -_-

[KariArisu]

Even just being able to command your pets while casting would be a godsend.

Agreed. Especially as a Scholar, it sucks that I can't move my fairies into position when I'm casting. Fights where my fairy gets knocked back become pretty annoying because of this.

how about when mounted? nothings worse than running through aggressive mobs and losing my summon because i can't click heel.... -_-

This would also be great. I lose my summon almost every time I travel in this game, they always die or despawn fighting aggro'd mobs.