Gnomish Mind Control Cap not working

[xwraith]

http://db.vanillagaming.org/?item=10726

When you use it succesfully, it makes a hostile humanoid or player function as your pet, and gives you a pet bar to make them attack, follow, etc., and I've read from wowhead comments that when you use it on players it's also supposed to make them use their abilities/cooldowns when you send them in to fight. But for some reason the petattack button or hotkey or setting it to aggressive does nothing. Of the 20+ times I've tried to use this item in pvp, I've only been able to attack with the mind controlled player one time. Is this a known bug?

[Bazinga]

In the video of the frost mage Vurtne you can see how it worked back then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_cLN66zHA

2:56 - Priest
8:23 - Warrior (attacks other player and charges at 8:32)
10:22 - Pala (uses SoC and attacks)
18:02 - Priest (starts with heal and then attacks at full health)

I just checked the bugtracker but i've found no report, may you open one?

Edit:// Another big problem i noticed, it's not possible to use the mind control cap if the caster or the target are in combat. Should be possible tho like in this video.

[xwraith]

Hey you're right about the being in combat thing, I didn't realize it was even supposed to work in combat. This thing's more broken than I thought. Shame seeing how it's such a cool item. I'll definitely put it in the bugtracker when I have the time.

[stimz]

I've been able to attack with MC'd players pretty often, but they teleport around and have horrible pathing. They also only auto attack.

The in combat thing was a nerf at some point in vanilla, so probably pre 1.12.