Return of Reckoning

AOE splash damage no longer lands on lion pets, unless they are the primary target of an aoe ability.

So this is fine by me but why does the lion pet still block AoE dmg if they are the primary target. They only do not block if it's a directed attack towards the wl from which the ability does aoe. After playing against it I see some problems with that.

First of all what's the counterplay to pull: Answer a kd or a kick so but since several kicks are aoe this is removed by this change. To me something that should not be the case.

Next up the WL pet still counts as enemy hit therefore is one less that is getting hit by any AOE / he lowers the amount of other people that can be hit. In most cases this wouldn't matter a lot but for example the skill Devour Essence suffers a lot from this. Using this skill against 2 WL halfs it's effectiveness. I don't think this should be the case either.

Finally lets say I want that wl pet killed but I happen to play a class that does most dmg with aoe. Therefore I thought targeting the WL pet would make it possible to hit the pet but this is not the case. Why on earth is it not enough to target the pet to land AOE skills. It's silly that as a aoe class you have to use weaker hitting single skills if you want the pet to get killed.

I would recommend to think about this again. Atleast with certain abilitys in mind.

It's bugged.

https://github.com/WarEmu/WarBugs/issues/10831

What should be happening: If the pet is the main target, it should take AoE damage and the knockdown effects from these skills.

What is currently happening: Pet blocks all AoE damage and CC effects regardless of being the main target.