my pet bugs

[scouse65]

I think this is system wide, but just to take a personal survey, does your dog bug out? What my dog does is that he will stop attacking, aggro a mob, square off and take a wierd agressive stance and somewhat "hover" in front of the mob on his toes, instead of flat flooted. and stay there. He still draws agro, but does no damage and does not attack, doesn't growl or nothing, just runs in front of a mob and stands in front of him.

[LOOON375]

Mine has started doing that as well. I was able to fix it a couple of times by having it rest at a shrine. But the last time I tried having him rest it didn't work.

I can no longer dismiss him at will. I have to restart the client or log out and back in to get him to be gone.

[MartinusWyllt]

I've noticed this lack of response more frequently when there are other artificers in the party.

[Parameteer]

Same problems here. Sometimes he is half underground like he is sinking in quicksand. The other night he was actually bent, like he had been hit by a bus. Sometimes he just doesn't do anything but stand there and watch me get attacked. Dismissing him and bringing him back usually fixes it, but that is getting old doing it 3 or 4 times per quest.

[deahamlet]

I thought I was just paranoid... but this happens all the time! He just sits getting aggro and not even clicking to make him attack does anything. Mind you, he also disappears together with his bar at times and only logging out and back in fixes it... very glitchy pet.

[JOTMON]

Mine as well.
At first was hey my dog is floating there..
He would not attack, interact, or implement any of the commands from the hotbar.
He would move like he was going to attack but just hover there next to the mob.

Had to finish the quest with the dog floating around doing nothing , and only fixed when I relogged the client.

Definitely annoying.

[Jondera]

I've noticed my dog tends to freeze and stop doing anything (as mentioned) mostly after he tries to climb ladders. He can jump down, or teleport, and it'll be fine, but if he climbs a ladder for some reason he needs to be dismissed/resummoned.

[rodrigocaruso]

Turbine insists in sucking at every patch. They seen to like it...

Why they do'nt just sell the game to a reel company, like Wizards to take care of? If I were fro mwizards, I woulb be sick to see how Dungeons and Dragons name is getting deeper on the mud...

[Jaid314]

Turbine insists in sucking at every patch. They seen to like it...

Why they do'nt just sell the game to a reel company, like Wizards to take care of? If I were fro mwizards, I woulb be sick to see how Dungeons and Dragons name is getting deeper on the mud...

if they sold it to wizards, i'd be leaving this game in a heartbeat. for two reasons.

1) wizards does not have a good record in terms of software development overall, imo.
2) wizards will convert it to 4th edition, which will remove most of the interesting features of the game that make it different from all the other MMOs out there.

i suppose on the plus side, i would have more free time as a result.

anyways, the simple fact is just about any developer is going to have some bugs in the game. given we don't have the code to look at, we don't even really know what they're dealing with. there's a reason they teach you in school to use good coding practices (it makes it a hell of a lot easier to work with if you ever come back to it), but that doesn't mean everyone uses those coding practices (mostly out of laziness). and it only takes one person to screw it up pretty badly for everyone else.

[rodrigocaruso]

if they sold it to wizards, i'd be leaving this game in a heartbeat. for two reasons.

1) wizards does not have a good record in terms of software development overall, imo.
2) wizards will convert it to 4th edition, which will remove most of the interesting features of the game that make it different from all the other MMOs out there.

i suppose on the plus side, i would have more free time as a result.

anyways, the simple fact is just about any developer is going to have some bugs in the game. given we don't have the code to look at, we don't even really know what they're dealing with. there's a reason they teach you in school to use good coding practices (it makes it a hell of a lot easier to work with if you ever come back to it), but that doesn't mean everyone uses those coding practices (mostly out of laziness). and it only takes one person to screw it up pretty badly for everyone else.

Ok, I agree that Wizards could not be the right choice (I sucked by calling the first name that came out of my head), but lets think a bit on the subject:

- The first quest I tried with artificer I DO noted the bug. The bug happens at least once in every quest I enter up to 4 time in the same quest. I'm now giving a s**t if my dog is hitting or not, when it hits something I call it a "lucky shot". It's a bug for all my artificer levels from 4-8 until now(that's a lot of quests, and the bug NEVER failed to occur). I just have a freaking dog I can't rely because it will be staring like a stupid to the enemies even when I command him to attack, so the REAL artificer until now is a guy with a metal punchbag or a guy reeeeeeeally patient to dismiss it and recall all the time(and you thought that charging that rune arm was an annoying exercise).

Staring dog is stupid but not like trying to get a new rune arm for 20+ tries I've found one, some of the rewards it appears are once-in-life(tried with my toons and just wasted time on that). Ok, turbine wants to sell some rune arms and that's ok, I can survive with my old Redemption one just as a cosmetic or that buggy Candlelight that collides with terrain and FAILS even if you aim for a troll's head. That are acceptable bugs or balancing s**t or jerking commercial tactics.

But for babling staring dog I have 2 explanations until now for a bug that its intermitent but happened AT LEAST ONCE at every single quest I've played:
1- THEY DON'T FREAKING TEST ANYTHING, and I THINK THEY SUCK HARD because of this!
2- THEY DO TEST AND JUST DON'T CARE , and I THINK THEY SUCK HARD because of this!

Both reasons should be considered to abandon the game as it is. Here's your free time and you wasted a lot of heartbeats on THAT kind of company!

I'm sorry but I can't mean well and call s**t of poo-poo when everything singnals that it's full of s**t.
Sorry but if it were a much specific combination or single quest or single item or situation, I would be glad to understand, like I did to that stupid Candlelight BS or the cretin Rune Arm never appearing in a once-for-life reward for quest chain that took hours and I just have to delete my char and play again for 10x just to have a chance to see the color of that item.

A ALWAYS HAPPENING bug DO is a shame to get through test to production environment at all times, for all companies that have the guts to do that kind of mess and still get money for it.

Well, playing VIP with artificer just made me quit VIP signature (hey, now I've got some spare money). That's all Turbine accomplished to show me to do, hide my wallet from them because the ship is sinking. Maybe even a dog food or garbage collector company can create less mess in software development than THIS software development company showed until now...

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[MRH]

Yes , arti pets are doing what they are told and attacking when on attack.

But then they will just stop and stand there.

They will aggro enemy but just stand there not doing anything.

You have to dismiss then resummon them to get them working again.



Dev's plz try it..... take a dog to the training dummy , and put him on attack , let him kill the dummy and watch him just stand there and attack maybe once every couple mins or so.

If on attack he should ALWAYS attack anything that is there to attack.

Please fix asap thx !