Extended Swarm AA

[Nusa]

I haven't observed any active killing of pets by the Yowl cast.

The overlap is small, which is confirmed by the math:
Extended pet lifetime 18 + 3 = 21 seconds
Recast time on Yowl: 18 seconds
Cast time on Yowl: 3 seconds base, modified = 1.5 seconds
21 - (18 + 1.5) = 1.5 second overlap, assuming you're on the ball chaining the spell

Agree with the Forced Rejuv comment as well. Hard to do real testing with a 1-hour reuse, but I've not observed any issues when I do use it.

I haven't been testing proc pets.

[Catnip_Inny]

last time i tried this it did kill my wolf pets... i havnt tried since obviously because i dont like killing my swarm pets early...

[Nusa]

Ok, just to be sure, I just did a quick test. I waited until I got a 4-wolf cast, hit Forced Rejuv and got a 1-wolf cast. The previous 4 wolves did NOT go away...I had all 5 of them up at once for a good 15 seconds or so.

edit - And shortly after writing the above, I clearly observed the same thing with normal chaining. 4-wolf followed by a 1-wolf. There was a clearly visible, albeit short, overlap before the original 4 wolves went away.

Should be easy enough for anyone with all 3 ranks of extend to replicate. (Hint: dont wait for your UI to show Yowl as available...start hitting the cast key when it's about time to avoid wasting idle time.)

[Khauruk]

And shortly after writing the above, I clearly observed the same thing with normal chaining. 4-wolf followed by a 1-wolf. There was a clearly visible, albeit short, overlap before the original 4 wolves went away.

Yes indeed, and this has always been the case.  Since in a 4-proc, the wolves don't all spawn simultaneously, there is overlap time, which is now extended further w/ this AA.

[Nusa]

Just thought it needed an extra test since we had two different people saying it killed pets early, which my own observations say is not the case.

[wildwaters]

I didn't run tests but I spent several hours boxing in the precipice of war for purity augs.

I chain cast beast pet and alt tabbed and noticed multiple times 5 up when my 4 proced first and single after. I had a good view of all five from the sk.

I think maybe some of the confusion maybe due to a four proc followed by another four proc where the first set of wolves begin depoping just as the others are beginning to spawn.

[Catnip_Inny]

Tried it the other night and it worked fine, perhaps the kiling of my swarm pet i observed was simply the timer expiring due to the extended AAs not working and maybe i was a lil slow mashing the yowl key after using forced rejuvenation :)

glad this works the way it should@!