[BFA] World pvp

[Mosg2]

djensen, do you have the brew pup? Can you tell us if it functions?

[djensen2010]

I dont, Ill pick it up today and try

So brew pup works until you get the mug. Once youve looted him you cant interact with him again until you have drank or destroy the drink. So guess youre stuck with soul trader, mount, or possibly stuffing your bags so you cannot loot the mug?

The stuffing your bags worked. I moved everything to backpack and as long as you cant loot the dog you can continue to IWT. Ill try to find some pvp and see if you can IWT during. To macro the pup you cant a straight /target Alterac Brew-Pup. I have to set pup as focus and then make a /target [target=focus] and that allows me to target pup and IWT. Ive always wanted a soul trader and theyre only 400k on my server so im going to buy 1. Ill report back with its results.

Alright. Tested. IWT on both pup and trader works while in PVP combat. But each has a pro and con. The pup being you need to be unable to loot him in order to keep IWT with him. THe trader being that when you IWT he opens a dialogue and pauses not moving, meaning your toons can get left behind talking to him. I would say the pup is superior if youre on full bags and dont mind not looting, aka in most "purposeful" wpvp situations. Unless theres an addon that can block vendor dialogue windows from opening the soul trader is good, but the chance of your toons stopping and talking and falling behind is a problem. And the main problem with both of these is that you have to switch from your enemy target, to the pet to IWT, then back to the target to resume dps. Unless theres a way to IWT with focus?

[Mosg2]

Thanks so much for running it down djensen!

I've used the soul-trader before right after the loss of follow in BGs. The problem with him is that once someone opens dialogue with him, he stops briefly.

With the brew-pup, can't you just add a deleteitem macro to your follow macro? There are addons that also will auto-delete items when you loot them, I think. I don't remember the name. Lemme go see!

Edit:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/easyloot
That will let you auto delete it when it pops in your bags. Check and see if it'll work?

[djensen2010]

2 problems. 1, the addon doesnt seem to work, probably because of the update. 2, when destroying the brew, there appears to be a 5 sec cooldown before you can loot the pup again. When you consume the drink though, you can instantly reloot the pup sometimes. SOmetimes you can immediatly grab another brew, other times you have to wait 5 seconds. Drinking also runs the risk of your toons pausing to throw up or be dazed. So looks like your best bet is getting your followers smashed, spamming them to drink and IWT, or use the pup with full bags. If you plan to go wpvp, pup with full bags best from what im seeing. If you are questing in warmode and might get attacked, soul trader.

[Mosg2]

Hrm, could also try this macro on your follow key?

/run for bag=0,4,1 do for slot=1,36,1 do local name=GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot);if (name and string.find(name,"Item1")) or (name and string.find(name,"Item2")) then PickupContainerItem(bag,slot);DeleteCursorItem();e nd;end;end

You have to include the exact item name in the quotes.

[Malky]

Alright, tried on my 5 hunters a bit and it's hard just because you cannot rotate them easily. I will have to try on my tank teams and rogues see how it is, I feel like melee will be easier to manage in pvp.

Hunter pet seems to bug and keep you in pvp, enemy or not, so i had to dismiss them to finally be able to follow proprely. IWT on Melee team is the way to go.

[djensen2010]

Hrm, could also try this macro on your follow key?

/run for bag=0,4,1 do for slot=1,36,1 do local name=GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot);if (name and string.find(name,"Item1")) or (name and string.find(name,"Item2")) then PickupContainerItem(bag,slot);DeleteCursorItem();e nd;end;end

You have to include the exact item name in the quotes.

SO I had to edit the macro but this works

/run for b = 0, 4 do for s = 1, GetContainerNumSlots(b) do local l = GetContainerItemLink(b, s) if l and l:find("Mulled Alterac Brandy") then PickupContainerItem(b, s) DeleteCursorItem() end end end

Same issue though is that the pup only insta respawns the brew 80ish percent of the time.

[Mosg2]

Seems like the best plan then is melee with IWT and use the brew pup or trader to re-position sparingly.

[WOWBOX40]

Just my 2 cents.. back in the day when /follow worked in pvp, i used to play a lot. I decided to stop however when they removed that possibility. I didnt dare to IWT with pets etc, as that felt like a sneaking way to avoid blizzard purpose: to not let "/follow" be possible.

So have anyone got banned for using pets/vendors since they implented the /follow removal? Just curious.

[valkry]

Just my 2 cents.. back in the day when /follow worked in pvp, i used to play a lot. I decided to stop however when they removed that possibility. I didnt dare to IWT with pets etc, as that felt like a sneaking way to avoid blizzard purpose: to not let "/follow" be possible.

So have anyone got banned for using pets/vendors since they implented the /follow removal? Just curious.

Nope