Mage n00b Question
 

It is true that if i don't deal at least 50% damage, my pet will be eating 50%xp?
Also its true that if you do 0 dmg, but all via pet, the pet eats 75%xp??

In both cases, i find it very unfair to the mage class, to deal 50%dmg i gonna use about 40-45% of my mana in every pull.

Thanks in advance!

Yeppers.

So what is better then? Eat mana to kill 2 yellows then wait for med, or chain kill stuff at 50% xp penalty?

I think reclaiming energy on the pet when the mobs running and low enough that you can kill it in a single nuke is the popular way of doing it. That or duoing since pets eat 0 xp in a group.

Thanks for that suggestion!

This, and pet classes are wrecking crews in duos. Mage/Enc and Mage/Nec are disgustingly effective.

Just be happy pet agro has been fixed. Before if you cast 1 nuke at pretty much anytime you were tanking.
For solo:
Low levels: summon higher lvl pet let him wreck stuff and eat penalty
Mid-high levels: chain pet, reclaim, nuke to finish

You're still doing better a solo ranger so there's that... Group up though, no pet penalty that way.

Depends on what level you are, at lower levels I don't think it's very mana efficient to be re-summoning pets, especially since you can't use the focus item reclaim until level 20 (assuming you have gotten at least one of them). I would just stick with summoning highest level pet and killing as fast as you can until you hit level 20 or so. I just recently started reclaiming and re-summoning at 24 and I still am having to sit and med every 4 or so pulls.

Side note: I have been playing here since about October '13 (join date says earlier but that was just when I was scoping the project out) and I still only have a level 24 main so take my advice for what you will. I am limited by play time however.

I guess i gotta eat the penalty, at lvl 18 i am, re-summoning pet is not every efficient, eats a lot of my mana pool instantly.