FD and pet. Annoing bug or turtle feature?

[Akarui]

It was hard to remember and find a video what i saw 12 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7bHOv9UCo0&t=174s

This is first video and example what i seen how to solo hunter pve. Kiting is everything . But at now i cant to reproduce that. Is it bug or recently update feature?
When i use FD and mob still wants to attack my pet (which standing around the corner) i still in combat and no way to use trap. 2 weeks ago all be fine but not now.

Dear hunters. what do u think about that? PVE solo rip?

[Snigery]

I have no problem using FD & Trap & pet. I wrote a macro that will cast FD and have my pet follow me as passive. This gives me the couple miliseconds to cast my trap and re-attack target with pet. The problem is this, if your pet has not attacked the target during fight, it's not engaged in combat, and so if you FD, target will return to spawn patrol. If your pet has attacked target and is in combat and you FD, target will attack your pet. The problem with FD is this then, if your pet attacks the target while you are in FD, you will be placed back in combat. You are still in FD state, but cannot use your traps.

So this is where the macro is handy. I have had like over 95% success with this macro. The only problem is when my timing is just unfortunate, and my pet is already attacking within a couple miliseconds of my triggering FD where pet attacks at the same time, putting me in combat. But nearly all the time it works, unless FD/trap is resisted.

[Snigery]

Actually, here is the macro. I had a previous one that was more complicated, but this works better.

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/run CastPetAction(2) CastPetAction(6) fActionPrepare(98)

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fActionPrepare

is a custom LUA function that the SuperMacro addon allows you to use. It uses a spell in an action bar slot and checks if that action is useable (ie not on CD, in range, etc) and not already active. This avoids error messages popping up.

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function fActionPrepare( vActionSlotId )
  if fIsActionUseable( vActionSlotId ) and not fIsActionActive( vActionSlotId ) then
    UseAction( vActionSlotId )
  end
end

You could just use

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CastSpellByName("Feign Death")

instead if you rather.

[Akarui]

Actually, here is the macro. I had a previous one that was more complicated, but this works better.

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/run CastPetAction(2) CastPetAction(6) fActionPrepare(98)

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fActionPrepare

is a custom LUA function that the SuperMacro addon allows you to use. It uses a spell in an action bar slot and checks if that action is useable (ie not on CD, in range, etc) and not already active. This avoids error messages popping up.

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function fActionPrepare( vActionSlotId )
  if fIsActionUseable( vActionSlotId ) and not fIsActionActive( vActionSlotId ) then
    UseAction( vActionSlotId )
  end
end

You could just use

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CastSpellByName("Feign Death")

instead if you rather.

thx. cast pet action 2 then instantly 3 and all fine for my case

[Sasser]

it is still buggy..it works only with macro. Befor the patch comes out 1-2 weeks ago it works without macro. Feign death > and it was allowed to set traps. Now you do feign death and the buttons are grey and you are still in fight.

[Snigery]

it is still buggy..it works only with macro. Befor the patch comes out 1-2 weeks ago it works without macro. Feign death > and it was allowed to set traps. Now you do feign death and the buttons are grey and you are still in fight.

Your FD is probably being resisted, which might show up in the combat log. Other conditions put you back into combat also, like if your pet attacks the target while your are in FD state, you will still be lying down undetected, but unable to use your traps from FD state.