You shouldn’t skimp on Toughness just because you have pets.'īased on that, the developer is looking to divide the type of attacks that face pets into three categories: On the flip side, they should be noticeably tougher if you’ve increased your own Toughness. 'Pets should derive their Toughness from yours, and if you skip out on it, your pets’ survivability should be noticeably lower as a result. They currently scale with most of your stats but not all of them. 'Pets should scale with your survivability stats. To counter that, game designer John Yang posted an update on the Diablo 3 forums outlining some of the changes Blizzard is working on to address the issues. As it stands, pets get punished when the monsters you're facing unleash attacks that are easy to avoid for the player, but not so much for the pets, since you can't control them individually.

Pets are mainly the speciality of the Witch Doctor class but other classes can spawn them as well based on their skills. Blizzard is on the case and is looking into ways to make them more viable against the new challenges. Do you guys even want micro ability for pets in D3? Keep in mind that the WD isn’t a pure summoner he’s always going to be using a lot of attack skills for his main damage, or at least as a hefty supplement to his pets.One of the few aspects of Diablo 3 that didn't get much attention with all the recent patches and the introduction of new difficult arenas, like the Nephalem Rifts and the Greater Rifts, is player pets. I’m curious about the larger issue, though.

They might have very different AIs, and thus where and how you summon them could make a big difference in how they behave. However, as we mentioned in a post about another unseen WD skill a few days ago, we still know almost nothing about the WD’s summons besides Mongrel. Direct control of their actions, no, but there’s a lot of thought and strategy that can go in to pet control far beyond just summoning new ones when the old ones die.ĭoesn’t this sound exactly like how pet control worked in Diablo II? Which isn’t a bad thing. i just thought that this could add much more depth to sacrificial witch doctor builds- so anyone participated in blizzcon plz confirm this? Bashiok replied to a question about micromanagement of pets in Diablo III:ĭoes diablo 3 allow player to micro pets like in titan’s quest? like each pet is bind to a key, when you press that key and press anywhere the pet will run to that location.

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