Pets are all bugged!

[charlemagne]

I've never been a particular fan of pet classes (except PUP) and so haven't taken one to dungeons yet but I have noticed others having this issue.
The morbol fruit one seems like a simple oversight that should be fixed easily. I think perhaps that in certain circumstances pets should benefit from whatever damage mitigation the player has. As to the positioning of pets I agree something needs to be done but hopefully when they fix it they don't over fix it. I have seen several sch/smn allowing their pets to suffer unnecessary damage simply by not staying aware of their position. Often they will stand just outside an aoe marker leaving their pet inside or I've even seen them run across an aoe marker trailing their pet inside and leaving it there.

[Vyserion]

Pet management is a thing, and insofar as the Pet AI is concerned, I know for a fact that Emerald and Topaz Carbuncle will drop what they're doing to flee a variety of AOE circles. When Faeries and Egis and Carbuncles get hit, they take something like 80 or 90% reduced damage from any AOE. For some bosses it doesn't matter, but thats what you have the place command for. (Pets also don't dodge Titan's Landslide and can be knocked off the edge and have to be resummoned.) The biggest fix for pets is to let us be able to give them command input while we're casting. It makes no sense that we have to wait til we're between global cooldowns to give our pets basic commands or activate their abilities.

This is especially problematic for Scholars who spend literally all of their time pressing some button or another to keep up with healing properly. It's fairly difficult to dodge, heal, pet heal and place/move your pet at present because we can't control it during our casts.