Editing Venomancer Luring (section)

=== Running Away ===

Your pet will continue an attack from further away than it will start one.  This means that you can start running away as soon as you send your pet to attack.  This gives you a little extra range between you and the monster, giving you a bit more time to work with as it heads towards you.

This can be useful if the monster has a large attack range, or is fast; and you don't mind risking your pet dying.

However, be very careful.  In increasing order of nastiness:
# You might get too far away, the monster would then be unable to see you and so wouldn't be pulled.  Wastes your time.
# You might get far enough away to cause your pet to unsummon.  Again, wasting the pull.  Hard to do, usually the next one happens first:
# You might get far enough away to cause your pet to teleport back before it has gotten anywhere.  Wastes your time, but is a big warning sign...
# You might get far enough away that your pet teleports back to you '''after''' it's woken up the whole crowd.  And since the pet didn't vanish, just moved, they will run towards the new position.  And, often, run into range to notice ''you'' before your pet unsummons.  Worst of all, this might happen the other side of a wall so you don't notice until it's too late to do anything except die.

In all, I'd say this tactic has too much risk and not enough of a benefit.

Of course, if you started your pull from closer to the monsters than the maximum range, you can happily run away with out causing any problems at all.  Just... be careful, alright?

Different monsters have different ranges at which they will pursue you.  Low level monsters often won't chase you unless you are closer than you need to be to send the pet in (the harpies surrounding Farren in FB39 are an annoying example of this) - but many higher level monsters ''will''.

It also seems that different pets have different ranges at which they are willing to attack.  This may be related to run-speed.  Get comfortable with what your pet can and can't do on monsters that can't kill you before you try it out in a real situation.