Never mind, I found it by accident. For the benefit of future novices ...
Right click on your pet's Health Bar. A menu will appear with the three aggression levels and the Disband option.


According to the Titan Quest Wiki, Immortal Throne lets you set the aggression level of your pets.

Immortal Throne added the ability to set the stance for pets to either passive, normal, or aggressive:

Aggressive: Your pets will automatically hunt down all monsters in range. Useful early on or when farming standard mobs, however, not advised when fighting bosses.
Normal: Your pets will stay close to you, but attack enemies that get close to you or attack you.
Defensive: Your pets will stick close to you and never take the initiative in combat. However, when either you or they get hit, they will move to take down the attacker.

So I have two questions regarding the above.

1. Does TQ Anniversary retain this feature?
2. If yes, how do you set aggression level? (Since the wolf often ruins my intended ambushes. I'm trying to snipe some of the mob before the boss fight, but doggo pulls a Leeroy Jenkins and it's another death.)

https://titanquest.fandom.com/wiki/Pets

1. Yes, it does.

2. Same way as for TQIT. Right click on the pet's icon and then choose which setting you want. If you want to set up an ambush then set them to Defensive.

Hi,
sorry for resurrecting this rather old thread, but does this still work for everyone?
My pets are all set to aggressive, yet they behave as if they were set to passive. When I right click on a pet's icon and try to set it to another stance, it just defaults back to aggressive and nothing changes...
Is this feature just bugged in the current version?

Not that I know of. Worked fine for me during testing.

Try verifying the game files and if that doesn't help then please report it here

https://redmine.thqnordic.com/projects/titan-quest-eternal-embers-community/issues/new

Thank you very much for the hint to verify the game files!
That actually did the trick and my pets now behave as they should.

Edit: typo

Yeah, always worth trying that first as sometimes files get missed/corrupted.

Hello. Thank you for the information you provided.

On the topic of pets, I would like to share my experience of living with pets.

Until recently, I was at home all the time, working remotely and spending all my time with my dog. Now I need to work at the office and I began to worry a lot about how he would cope without me.

An excellent solution was reading the https://www.cogniteq.com/blog/pet-care-app-development-key-types-features-and-cost article, after which I realized that creating software for tracking an animal is the ideal solution. The Cogniteq team helped make this wish come true and now everything is just great. While at work, I can keep an eye on the pet and remotely add food and water.

This is a must-have for pet owners!

There used to be a sticky thread in the General forum to report smap I think, but it doesn't seem to be there now.

You could also try to DM a blue directly with a link to it. I don't know how often they check threads like these.
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