Enchanter Pet won't "go away"

[Angelox]

It's really incredible how far along the enchanter has come since I started here. I'm actually able to play like I used to on live.
The only big problem I have is, I can't make the pet "go away" when commanded - so I sort of get stuck with the pet tell the character dies.

[trevius]

From what I have heard, casting invis on yourself doesn't get rid of the pet like it used to on live either. I am also thinking that there was a way to release charmed pets from charm so you didn't have to wait to clear it. That might have been done using invis as well in the past.

For a possible work around until it is in the code, you could probably either make a regain mana clickie item, or just modify the spell so it is usable by enchanters. I know you probably steer away from anything like that, but I figured it might be helpful for anyone else that reads this and wants to get a temp fix in.

[AndMetal]

For some reason, I thought that was how the enchanter pet was designed. It would only help you if something attacked you first, and you couldn't call it off, etc, which I guess balanced it from Mages, etc. I'm also pretty sure you couldn't dismiss it either (except maybe with some sort of reclaim spell).

I also remember in the older days of EQ, you could use invis as a way to kill pets, until there was a patch that allowed you invis & still keep your pet, which is awesome for keeping a pet while invising through a KoS zone, since the pet would still zone with you, even if you told it to stay at the zone-in. I think that was done sometime after Luclin, maybe even after PoP.

[ChaosSlayer]

chanter DEFENTLY could dismiss their animation pets with "pet get lost/go away" comand- otherwise how the heck would you be able to charm anything?

same command can be used to break the charm

[Angelox]

Right - Chanters always had the "pet go away" option; and all casters had to develop AA's as to be able to invis with the pet, if not, the pet would poof on invis. Also, all casters had to earn AA's that would allow them to "suspend" the pet so it would not get lost on zoning or camp out.
Enchanters could also develop AAs to assume control over their pets (/pet attack, etc). I played for a very long time with my enchanter and had developed all these AA pet skills.
On the Dire Charm AA (think it was called that), if you invised, the pet would break charm and attack the charmer.
Reality is, pets should poof on invis, and also poof when zoning or camping out, unless you had the AAs.

[ChaosSlayer]

umm reality wise- i disagree than pet should poof on zoning. - this ahcives no effect but major pain in the arse to resummon a pet just beucase you have to zone
i don't belvie there ever was invis AA - it was simply made so you can safely invis and carry pet on

also, the thing such as- chanter pet is uncontrolleable by default should be a on/off Rule in DB rather than a default set up.

Even better- it should be a part of a specific pet - thgout this would a pain to code =)

[AndMetal]

Originally Posted by Angelox

all casters had to develop AA's as to be able to invis with the pet, if not, the pet would poof on invis.

I had to double check, but I'm not seeing any AAs that allow you to invis with the pet, so I'm not really sure what you might be referring to.

I distinctly remember soloing on my shaman in one of the Luclin zones (Katta I think?) at the guards by the bank. Because killing them lowers your faction, I would already have a pet summoned & buffed (usually from someone in the Nexus), zone in, invis to the camp spot, then summon my pet to me. I'm not sure, but I believe the pet could still aggro mobs, which is why I usually did it that way (but I could be wrong about that). However, I know previously, you couldn't invis with a pet summoned & they also wouldn't zone (until after beastlords came around).

One caveat, though, was they would poof after being logged for somewhere between 10 & 30 minutes (similar to summoned items). As far as I know, that was mainly to prevent having to resummon your pet if you went LD (which was always a PITA during raids).

For reference, I stopped playing EQ Live sometime in 2004 or early 2005.

Originally Posted by Angelox

Also, all casters had to earn AA's that would allow them to "suspend" the pet so it would not get lost on zoning or camp out.

This didn't have any affect on zoning, it just let you "save" your pet to resummon later (although I never used it myself personally). The main idea with those, as I understand it, was so you didn't have to rebuff or summon new items for your pet, which was especially nice for mages (less mana spent on resummoning items, give pet nice weapons/armor, etc).

On a side note, I'm not trying to be argumentative, just trying to make some clarifications.

Back to the original issue, it sounds like, because chanter pets are somewhat unique, they might have been coded differently than regular pets, and there might not be a check for the commands. I'll have to see if I can peek at the source code a little later.