This post is more of a belated confirmation than news. At least some pets who apply debuffs often do not apply them correctly to Ultraxion. I noticed this many weeks ago with my dragonhawk. Back then I attempted a fix by manually repositioning my pet closer to the boss. This did not solve the problem; my pet’s debuff uptime was still very low. It was only this past week that the stars (or, rather, raid auras) aligned again to allow me to try out another fix. This time I macro’d Dragon’s Breath to a shot, and it did the trick.
The mistake I made this time, though, was that I only macro’d the pet ability to Cobra Shot, and so my pet did not have its debuff up during the first several seconds of the fight when I’m not firing Cobra Shot. So, I would recommend macro’ing your pet’s debuff to a shot or shots you fire at the start of and throughout the fight.
I wanted to be careful about having my pet continue to behave normally in other fights (since I’m too lazy to switch macros between fights), so I used a macro line like this so that the pet stays on his assigned target and doesn’t fail to cast his debuff:
/cast [@pettarget] Dragon's Breath
If you are interested in looking up a pet’s debuff uptime on a target, you can check this under the pet’s details page on World of Logs and clicking the “Buffs cast” tab. You can then check the pound sign next to the debuff’s name to graph the uptime and see when during the fight (if ever) the debuff was not present on the target.
Thanks for spotting this. This seems to be a sporadic problem with pet abilities e.g. Rabid had problems a while back.
Also, this might seem obvious but a buff/debuff of the same type if already on the boss will not be applied by our pets. I was confused as well why my pet never cast Lightning Breath, but turns out theres a similar debuff from Warlocks that does the same thing and because that was on the boss, my pet never cast his own version. Same goes to Ravagers and a rogue buff for the physical damage one.
Yeah, pet buffs/debuffs typically won’t overwrite player buffs/debuffs. It was pain in Wrath when they did.
The Ultraxion problem occurs when the pet has no debuff competition.
I’m manually casting my wind serpent’s lightning breath on ultraxion. It looks like the debuff also falls off when it claims to have 10 seconds remaining.
That sounds odd. I guess all I can say is that my dragonhawk’s debuff appears to work fine when macro’d into a shot.
First run I did with my current guild I we hit Ultrax and I was topping out at 60k, leveling off around 45-50 for most of the fight. This was back in late Dec, early Jan.
Lately I see myself topping out at 50-55k and then leveling off to 35-40.
Wondering if this is the issue?
Gear has gotten better…so not sure what the problem could be.
This isn’t a new issue, so it would have had the same effect under the same circumstances in December.
Then I need to figure out WTH happened. It could be any number of variables, but it seems off regardless of the cause – just need to pin point if its correctable or not.
There is a place to stand where pets have no issue. It is a lot closer to the edge than most guilds are used to but the sweet spot does exist. My lightning breath is up 98% of the fight and I let my pet autocast all by himself.
I had my pet right on the edge and it didn’t work, so it must be a really specific spot you found.