Controller pets controls not for me

[Spectre7878]

Ok. I may be the only one that does not like this. I wish there was an opt out option for this. If I wanted to control pets I play a mastermind. Which I don’t play because I don’t like it. I have enough to do during battle rather than telling my pets to attack and stay etc etc. I played my illusion dark controller who use to be fun but now I have to micro manage my phantasm. Worse yet when I spawn him he automatically goes to follow me/passive. I don’t want to be clicking pet window to make him passive and or aggressive. Please give players options to have pets do what they use to do. 😢

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You can just make a macro to set him to follow/aggressive.

 

But yes, it is an extra step that didn't exist before. 

[Psyonico]

I'm going to throw together a suggestion post in regards to this concern.

[Epistasis]

I agree totally.  I chose Gravity (ever since live) not only because it's cool to hoist things and choke the life out of them, but because I wanted the Singularity to function as a 'fire and forget' defensive measure of last resort - I have zero interest in controlling it (I have a Thugs/Kinetics mastermind for that!).  I'd like to see some of the primaries reverted, or at least the option for it.

 

Sincerely,

Epistasis

Torchbearer/Everlasting

[Maelwys]

/bind KEY "petcom_all aggressive follow"

Summon Pet.
Press KEY.
Done.

No clicking of pet trays or any other horribly difficult UI interactions required.

And if you are the sort of person that doesn't need the kids to set up your streaming box (that's the modern equivalent of "program your VCR", right?) you could even append the petcom command onto the end of the same button you press to summon the controller pet in the first place.

[Heatstroke]

While the new controls can be somewhat annoying at first if you are not used to them, what I did is what I learned to do was summon the pet and then drop and drag the different Icons into a power tray. This allows me to use the button to easily change behavior. One of the most useful is the " Goto " command. I can use that command to make the pet(s) engage first,  drawing inital aggro and then follow up with holds. debuffs or attacks. Very very useful. Especially for pets like Singularity which has a habit sometimes of staying slightly out of range.