Dash -> “Spurt”
Dive -> “Sturzflug”

my post was purely for information ;)

The ‘alphabetical cast’ seems to be our problem. Before 2.4.0, Growl had priority. Everytime there was enough focus to cast, it was cast (first).

I’ve done alot of testing on other pet types and this theory does seem to be consistant.

Side note: With the increase for the hypothetical XP needed a player to get from 70 to 71, a pet now requires approx 63k xp between loyalty lvls plus the needed playing time between each.

According to log: Growl is always casting after Bite and Claw.

And one thing: Claw does not have a cooldown of its own, so it will eat throught focus at a very high speed, not leaving enough of it for a single Growl after some time.

Thanks guys and girls , I hope blizzard guys which i know do drop in here take some notice of what we talk about and pass our comments on , and thanks to Mania for keeping us in control and up to date..

I am only slowly getting my cat to 70 he is now 62 and the comments about alphabetical order of casts seems to make sense , I shall try and check that out …

To Summarize: It looks like most (I’ve not tried all families yet) pets with an active ability that is alphabetically before “Growl” and that casts before the pet gets within melee or Growl range of the mob. Will essencially cast Growl first. (since the Dive/dash/charge cast on the way.)

Hope this is helpful…. and by all means please test it on the various other varieties that you’ve got. and let us know if it is consistant.

Rudda-Stormrage

Also about the “Spanish” language version above. . . I wonder which order the skills are in the “spellbook” since they may have spanish names instead of english alphabet names?

Frosteria’s standard attack is “dash” Growl, melee claw etc….
However, when I am attacked and she responds. She opens with claw, melee growl.
Kinda odd IMO. (these never vary out of dozens of mobs of various sorts.)

George on the other hand normal opening is “Bite Melee then growl etc. ..
It is the same for when I am attacked and he responds.

For this reason, I think the attacks are based on the alphabetical listing in the pet tab of the spellbook.
George: Bite comes before Growl so he always uses that order.
(thunderstomp is used only when multiple mobs are on him. . . so it doesn’t factor in unless there are more than one mob. I have yet to test it in that situation. because normally it he would get bite off before the other mobs actually triggered the TS)
Frosteria: uses dash on the way to the mob, since none of the other active skills can be used. So she begins the order at “D” for dash. Next comes Growl then back to “Claw” etc. . .
But when I am attacked and she responds dash doesn’t get cast because she doesn’t have to run anywhere to attack so she just hits Claw because it is first.

The research that needs done is to see if this alphabetical attack idea works when there are skills such as Prowl, Gore, Dive (instead of Dash) etc….

Even if dash isn’t on Auto Growl is still first .. . I think because she knows to cast dash on the way even though she doesn’t because it isn’t on auto.
Hope this helps . . . (I also retrained my pets just before doinging this testing to see if it mattered what order they were trained in. It didn’t change anything.)

I can believe it. I mean, I did those updates and the whole thing flipped. Onna is MM specced because the Dragonhawk is so fragile, and gets a better bonus later on for her fire breath. Now that they’re both lvl 20, pulling aggro is almost impossible. The fragility is also why Orihime doesn’t have Growl.

This is just getting plain weird.