Ollamnh wrote:
Its taken me a while to realize this, if I'm even right. Are elite monsters somehow programmed to ignore pets an go straight for your toon? Even when I use something like intimidate with a good defensive tank pet like a spider or turtle, the monsters seem to make one brief pass at the pet and immediately come after me. As long as there's room to maneuver, I can kite them or briefly feign death to break them off, but I've gotten to the point where I deliberately sweep the area of lesser mobs before provoking the big guy.
Over the years of solo'ing various content, I learned several things. Don't forget that healing, as well as DPS, causes aggro. So, depending on the level of the elite, you may want to not only have misdirected a good Chimera Shot (MM), Explosive Shot (Surv.) or Arcane Shot (BM)... but also to hold off on additional threat such as Mend Pet until your Tenacity pet has gained a good handle on aggro. The other good thing to remember is that if you want to solo the typically hunter-soloable content... always bring along a good Glyph of Misdirection... that way a good 60%+ of your attacks don't have to throw too much threat your way.
Hope that helps :)