[DrKvothe]

Catching 2 skellies up is really just some bad luck. They share spawn points with goos and devourers. Add in the probability that a group has come through in the last 20 minutes and cleared them...

I'd just recommend going in with stam/tal/regrowth up. 2 HTs is ~900 hp, which you should be able to survive with time to root park. IVU charges are 20pp a pop and I'm cheap.

I don't bother letting pet take HTs. Takes quite a few HTs absorbed to just make up for pets casting cost, and he's a pain in the ass the whole time.

I've been pulling with burst of flame. I'm not even keeping slow mem'd, lol. Burst of flame is perfect for pulling, and it's actually great for breaking poorly placed roots. Sometimes people will zone in and aggro an entrance spawn before I get a chance to pull (busy with 4-6 other mobs). If they root, I can call my camp, epic dot, then burst of flame til root breaks and reroot where i want the mob. Way better than hoping they root it safely out of range of east pather.