Am I the only one who find pet rather useless?

[FelixDomesticus]

<div></div>The way I read AA ability list it seems that many of them are geared towards pet tanking and we all know how well it does that (dies extremely fast). Other abilities seem to include some group benefits of which I am not sure about how useful they are. Can someone tell me whats the point of whole dog?Besides I find it quite funny that point gathering is tuned towards raiding (items + named mobs) while pet itself is almost solo oriented. Meaning that soloer (or even normal grouper) has very hard time getting those points in the first place at all (exploration is very hard due to fact that mystics get no invis and almost all mobs use heavily either slows or stuns and so many of the quests need some heroic+ mob for them).EDIT: If I missed some point it is probably due to fact that I have not found any kind of manual for KoS from download version. Do such thing exist?<div></div><p>Message Edited by FelixDomesticus on <span class="date_text">03-02-2006</span><span class="time_text">09:58 AM</span></p>

[nalamdare]

<div>... well from what I see our pet is just there to boost our DPS a little bit, unbuffed and all the pet gets around 20 dps max... (parsed) so yeah... my old 50 dps + new pet 20dps = still not a lot of dps =p</div>

[tebion]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>FelixDomesticus wrote:<div></div>The way I read AA ability list it seems that many of them are geared towards pet tanking and we all know how well it does that (dies extremely fast). Other abilities seem to include some group benefits of which I am not sure about how useful they are. Can someone tell me whats the point of whole dog?<hr></blockquote>nope, the pet is definitely NOT designed for tanking and it shouldn't be.But it is designed to hit the mob and many of our AP's work in this fashion, therefore the pet has to be in melee range to the mob.Ripostes can be evaded by positioning the pet, but it makes next to no sense having a pet that dies everytime the mob sneezes an AE where a good part of our AP's will be useless for the rest of the fight (unless you have time to recast the pet ... but then its no challenging fight <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />)</span></div>

[salto]

<div></div><div></div>Its a weak, mana-free dot.  Nothing more.  I can't complain about getting an extra dot, can you?<p>Message Edited by salto on <span class="date_text">03-02-2006</span><span class="time_text">07:06 AM</span></p>

[tebion]

i definitely not salto, i missed my dogdog and am really glad it is herethe problem is just, several of our APs only work when the pet is near the group or hitting the mob<div></div>

[Karlen]

The mystic pet doesn't add a great deal of DPS, but (in my opinion) more DPS is better than less DPS and I don't think anyone could claim that we had too much DPS before the addition of our pets.<div></div>

[FelixDomesticus]

<div><span><blockquote><hr>salto wrote:<div></div><div></div>Its a weak, mana-free dot.  Nothing more.  I can't complain about getting an extra dot, can you?<hr></blockquote>But I can. Weak dot with great aggro magnet is pretty much useless. Well, I was not expecting much from KoS achievement system, but it was even weaker than I expected.</span></div>

[Late]

<div></div>I agree he's much like a mana free DoT.A mana free DoT that dies every other fight, has almost no hps,  takes forever to recast, and can't remember his settings each time you summon him.I was holding off on judging the pet till I put some points into some AAs that required his use....after hitting Halls of Fate and Blackscale Sepucher this weekend and trying to put the pet to good use I've come to realize: He's useless.Leave the pets to the conj/necro's and give us some more useful AAs. Just give us some points we can put into improving our DoTs, or our resists, or....something. Anything.<div></div><p>Message Edited by Latero on <span class="date_text">03-06-2006</span><span class="time_text">07:22 AM</span></p>