TODO: Complete pet/charm/mind control behavior.

[Fluglow]

Describe what needs to be implemented or enhanced The ability to have temporary pets should be available for all units. Players should also be able to have permanent pets that have persistent names (and other states?). Pets are actively being worked on, and I'll keep a list of missing core behavior below. The list will be updated when new requirements arise or features are implemented.

• [x] Basic beast taming spell handling.
• [x] Pet spell action bar loading.
• [x] Pet action packet handling.
• [x] Pet SpellManager usage.
• [x] Temporary, time-limited possess pet behavior (charm beast).
• [x] Basic pet command state application (handling packets and storing values to pass to AI).
• [x] Player following and combat movement.
• [x] Permanent pet summoning (hunter pet / warlock pets).
• [x] Database persistency.
• [x] Research (and fix if needed) how much damage pet auto attacks should deal.
• [x] Complete pet leveling behavior.
• [x] Spellbook populating for pet spells (Demon/pet tab).
• [x] Pet talents for hunter pets and spell teaching.
  • Pets can learn talents at Pet Trainers, and other abilities can be learned to be taught at family-specific trainers.
  • Summoned warlock pets can be trained at Demon Trainers.
  • The pet training system has a lot of its aspects guessed since we have no data on pet trainers in 0.5.3.
• [x] Active pet persistence and display in character selection.
• [x] Pet react state usage in AI.
• [x] Temporary, on-spawn summoned pets for creatures.
• [x] Basic automatic pet spell cast behavior.
  • Cast available pet spells on cooldown until a proper AI system is implemented.
• [ ] Player mind control behavior.
• [ ] Pet despawn behavior when mounted or out of range of summoner.

Expected end result

• Pets are summonable, persistent and fully commandable for hunters and warlocks.
• Units can temporarily mind control/charm other units and control/command them.
• Players have the ability to teach their permanent pets spells and talents. Hunters can learn pet spells by taming and playing with different pets, warlocks via demon trainers.
• Creatures in the world have pets where intended with working combat AI.

Guidance Most work being done on pets should be isolated into pet-related files such as PetManager. If you want to contribute to implementing this system (including sharing related screenshots etc. that might help), please contact me via the project's Discord. I'm actively working on pet behavior in Fluglow/alpha-core/tree/pets.

[T1ti]

Imps can currently auto attack, not sure of the intended behavior in but as far as I know they could never attack in vanilla.

[Alonin]

When a warlock logs out, their summoned pet remains in the world as a hostile creature. Unsure if the same happens with hunter pets.

[GrenderG]

When a warlock logs out, their summoned pet remains in the world as a hostile creature. Unsure if the same happens with hunter pets.

Fixed in https://github.com/The-Alpha-Project/alpha-core/pull/1378