Pets and Raids.

[MrDiz]

Yes or No? Good idea or Bad?

[zit]

<div></div><p>with very few exceptions i would say NO.</p><p>in solo situation our pet is good for 3 things: dps, unpredictable CC (root/stun...), katalysator for Havoc.</p><p>in raid situation CC from our pet is useless and for Havoc i prefer a real melee. leaves dps.</p><p>when fighting multi mob encounter i can get considerably more dps from spending my con slots on buffs than on personae.</p><p>when fighting single mob (usually boss mobs) they often times have a nasty AE which will reduce the usefulness of the personae.</p><p>i have used pet in a very few occasions on raids when i had no melee in group and at the same time we got like 3 illu and the others covered dynamism. very rare situation though.</p>

[Tuleri]

<div></div><p>I almost never have  pet out for a raid.  Not only is it more efficient DPS wise to use concentration slots for damage buffs haste/dyna, but most of the spells the pet will cast, an epic mob will be immune to anyhow.  Furthermore, a pet will die in a hurry if mob has an AOE</p><p> </p><p> </p>

[MrDiz]

yeah, tried a pet out last night on Fist.... survived about 10 secs <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> So left him dead and just buffed all the mages with dynamism <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />