Pets fighting a patch of fog?

[Ukase]

Make the pets a little smarter. 


This is probably a "me" problem for now, but there are no npcs, at least none that I can target, just a fog. It's in the Gordon Bower mission, defeat all ghosts. 

The pets seem to get blinded by the patch and just stupidly try to attack it. I can't even target it. Not sure how much of a pain this is to deal with, but it would be nice if they ignored it, or at least let me target it so I can kill it so they'll resume following me. 

My recharge is insufficient to respawn them after each patch without waiting around for it to recharge at this level. 

[Uun]

The ghosts phase and become invisible. If you don't have +perception, you probably can't see them. Your pets are probably attacking a phased ghost.

[Hedgefund]

No those aren't ghosts, those are fogs which create a tohit debuff, -percep too, I do believe.  You can see the effect on your buff bar and combat attributes.  It's only in Bower's second ghost mission, not the first.

 

It is an inconvenience for pet owners, even if they're in  defensive mode the debuff makes them attempt to attack it.  Your only option is to put the pets in passive or just move on, they'll follow you after some distance.

 

This goes way WAY back (to live), as long as I've been playing pet classes.

[Rudra]

Like @Hedgefund said, just keep going. The pets will stop attacking it and follow after you when you get far enough away.

[srmalloy]

3 hours ago, Rudra said:

just keep going. The pets will stop attacking it and follow after you when you get far enough away.

Or set them to 'passive follow', so they stop attacking and follow you, then switch them back to their regular configuration when you get away from them. 

[Rudra]

3 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

Or set them to 'passive follow', so they stop attacking and follow you, then switch them back to their regular configuration when you get away from them. 

Sure, all I'm saying though is once my MMs are like a few feet away from those clouds, my pets stop attacking it and just follow me. No stance changes necessary.

[Ghost]

Did the pets win?

[Doomguide2005]

41 minutes ago, Ghost said:

Did the pets win?

Next April they add a Confuse ability and they begin attacking each other.  A win win for the pets.