Situational uses of pets, what has changed?

[SpineDoc]

<DIV>With all of the recent pet changes I am a bit confused.  I am looking at my pet damage and see all 3 pets doing about the same damage.  It seems like the scout pet was nerfed, and the wiz pet was buffed just a hair.  Can anyone comment on the current situation uses, ie: like it used to be wiz for aoe, scout for single target and tank for soloing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Is the scout pet still the best to use against single target mobs?</DIV> <DIV>Is the wiz pet still the best to use against group mobs?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It almost seems as if the tank pet is the best damage even in groups.</DIV>

[Xalmat]

Yes and yes. I never, ever use a tank pet in groups simply because the scout and warlock pets vastly outdamage it.

[Godwrath]

<DIV>I had parsed in a lot of encounters the lvl 48 grim terror and lvl 46 shadowy assassin at lvl 48, and the assassin pet won all (group , non group, heroics, non heroics), so he is the only pet i use for groups /shrug.</DIV>

[Named]

<DIV>The warlock pet dominates the scout pet in 95% of raid situations ( immune mobs excluded ). This is due to the fact that most raid mobs are 2-8 levels higher than your pets. Your offensive buff gives a +disruption mod to your pet, which helps him hit. Your scout pet doesn't get a +piece buff, so he is SOL and usually can't hit very well. Ofcourse it always matters on your group make up. If you have a troub or a wizard, you'll probally want the mage pet to make use of their proc buffs. If you have a dirge, zerker, inq, or a few others, you would probally want the scout pet to fully utilize their melee buffs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Oh, and you can back your warlock pet in and our of AEs with very little loss to DPS, the Scout pet takes huge dps hits on AE mobs.</DIV><p>Message Edited by Named88 on <span class=date_text>01-02-2006</span> <span class=time_text>01:23 PM</span>