Comments on: Is Your Pet Lagging?

By: 

 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:30:48 +0000

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By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:52:18 +0000

Thanks Arrowed! I put it in there when the data was first coming out and nobody had discovered what you have. I’mm leave it up because unless people are timing this to their trinket procs, there’s no reason not to.

By: arrowed aka Bowjób

arrowed aka Bowjób — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:24:42 +0000

There’s no reason to macro in Furious Howl as it provides no noticeable gain in uptime. There’s further detail in my post on EJ as to why this problem occurs and some test results.

http://elitistjerks.com/f74/t44519-fd_bug_other_issues/p16/#post1545623

By: Noodleguitar

Noodleguitar — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:37:23 +0000

I went to Blood Princes encounter with these new additions to my shot macro’s.

I was on orb duty, so ofcourse I sent my pet on one (I always keep it on passive)… only to find out that the bomb hit the ground after a short while because my dumbass pet ran off to a new target I was shooting at because of these lines in the macro’s :P

But, no, it didn’t cause the raid to wipe ^^

By: Hesson

Hesson — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:12:03 +0000

I’ve never really noticed any kind of a difference with focus dump skills like claw, bite, etc., only with skills like charge.

By: Lashaah

Lashaah — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:06:27 +0000

You can keep the pet from attacking when macro’ing in Furious Howl by adding it this way:

/cast [@player] Furious Howl

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:42:02 +0000

You can do this:

/script UIErrorsFrame:UnregisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE"); /cast Kill Command /script UIErrorsFrame:RegisterEvent("UI_ERROR_MESSAGE");

A little lengthy, but it will prevent anything between those two scripts from spamming you with “unusable” errors.

By: Darush

Darush — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:30:47 +0000

Slightly off topic: I’ve followed the first advice and added Kill Command to all of my shots. However, now I constantly have a stream of the red “spell not ready” prompt at the top of my screen (since I use abilities when Kill Command is on cooldown). Any way to prevent the prompt from constantly popping up?

By: Kitt

Kitt — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:29:31 +0000

Is there a way to check if your current target and your pets target are the same? If so, you could macro your shots to only “manaully” cast pet skills if the targets are the same. If your targets are different, you’ll lose a bit of a DPS, but much less than if your pet were running back and forth between targets.

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:27:55 +0000

I’d happily trade a bit of pet control on the few fights where my pet is not on my target for up to 100 dps.

Also, maybe if we add /petfollow it will prevent the pet from leaving our side?

By: Anansi

Anansi — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:55:49 +0000

It seems that both Bite and Furious Howl cause the pet to attack even when on Passive.

If this is unavoidable, I’m not sure macroing pet abilities to shots is a great idea as it gives up pet control.

By: Noonan

Noonan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:49:35 +0000

Looks like furious howl is causing this problem btw. Any suggestions?

By: Noonan

Noonan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:53:17 +0000

I’ve noticed an unwanted side effect with this.
When you add furious howl, bite, rabid etc. to your shots it sends your pet back in to attack. Putting your pet on passive doesn’t solve the problem. It’s as though /petattack is baked into these abilities. Kill command, however, is unaffected. I’m guessing because it technically a hunter ability.

By: Phyllixia

Phyllixia — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:10:15 +0000

I read the post about mage/warlock pets and was wondering if hunter pets were the same… I’m too lazy to do testing though, so I’m glad someone is :)

By: euripidesoutdps

euripidesoutdps — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:04:54 +0000

probably about 100 raid buffed. That’s just a guess though.

By: jurgwena

jurgwena — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:40:15 +0000

thx for the tip, how much dps might this account for?

By: Reddawg

Reddawg — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:14:59 +0000

I did some testing and didnt see any difference in pet dps with leaving it just on auto or using a macro or macro + auto. My pets dps stayed the same no matter how I tried it.

With that being said I don’t see what it will hurt using the macro+auto just in case your pet doesn’t auto cast for some reason.

By: eidotrope

eidotrope — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:09:03 +0000

Er, maybe “attempted activations” would be a better way to put it.

By: eidotrope

eidotrope — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:03:25 +0000

Leaving the abilities on autocast makes sense to me. It’ll increase the possible activations per second and will keep the pet biting (if slowly) even when you aren’t using your macros.

By: EuripidesOutDPS

EuripidesOutDPS — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:39:00 +0000

I’m only testing whether to leave autocast on anyways- this is a verified and tested fact. Using a macro to force pet casts adds a significant amount of DPS on a dummy.

By: John

John — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:36:03 +0000

This is a very interesting topic. I’ve thought that it’s just a visual problem that pet’s Bite doesn’t go off all the time, but maybe it really is lagging. Please post your results when you have done some tests.