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The Mage Character of the Group, Zenaida has a pet named Rose that follows her and has some important gameplay abilities alongside the character.
One of these abilities is the Healing Anchor, where the player chooses a location for the companion to move to and do her healing AOE, which provides continuous health points to you and all the allies in the radius for a duration.

The Ability was pretty straight forward to make. Below is the Function RPC_HealAnchor

The problem arrived while replicating the Ability.
After much research on Unreal's online applications, soon I came to find out that the mouse location we were selecting from a client will not reflect on the AI pet, as all the AIs are technically handled by the server side.
After many failed solutions for about a week. I found the permanent solution and how to get this working.
I made a ProvideLocation function in the Pet AI controller.

This Function gets the owner client's controller Binds to a dispatcher UpdatedMouseLocation, to run LocationUpdated event and runs a function OC_MouseLocationUnderCursor
'OC_' means running only on the Owner client that is the actor who is doing the ability at this moment.
This is done in the Player controller as the player controller is a class where it is relevant to the owner clients and the server. There is no client-to-client relevancy here. So this is the perfect class to do this.

The 'OC' function intern calls the RPC_MouseLocationUnderCursor which is relevant to the server and passes the location vector under the client mouse.
RPC_MouseLocationUnderCursor calls a dispatcher UpdatedMouseLocation with the mouse location as the input.
LocationUpdated event bound to the dispatcher is triggered and provides a vector to the Blackboard Variable PointOfInterest

Further, The State of the Pet is changed to Ability1 as seen in the HealAnchor function.

When in Ability1 State the Pet AI moves to the PointOfInterest as we updated the variable with new values and does the Healing AOE.

SARYAT KHAN