Fixing the mage water pet
 

I have had several people on my server ask about the Magician water pet not backstabbing. I also play a mage on my server and never had my water pet backstab. I also remember on live the 61+ water pet doing an assassinate on lower level mobs, not sure what that breaking point was, it seemed like level 46 and below mobs but I would have to research. Before I dig into doing this, is there any other mob/pet in the code that does something even fairly close so I am not recreating the wheel?

Water pets of level 45+ are all flagged as rogues in the PEQ Database.

As far as i know, that should allow them to backstab. If its not, then I suspect more than water pets are broken.

Yes I see them in there, I just do not recall mine every backstabbing, definitely not assassinating. I know most of the time the pet is facing the mob but I would think I would have at least once noticed a backstab message. I will do some parsing on my test server tonight to get a real log of it. It may be that they are backstabbing and just not assassinating but I will look deeper into this.

Rogue pets backstab fine for me on a recent build.

Me too, parsed it tonight. Also looks to be assassinating, life is good.