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Originally Posted by Bodybagger
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casters still melee a ton and fire pet still does more dmg... the damage shield hits as hard as the pet does.... every single attack that hits it.. so it literally kills twice as fast as other pets for the most part... and on casters you can burn them, they have lower hp.
Higher hp means nothing almost as you'll have to a)chain summon or b)heal pet and either way an earth pet takes SO much longer to kill that you are less efficient from mana consumption standpoint, and also less efficient from time to kill standpoint, drastically reducing overall speed at which you are capable of leveling.
By all means, you can use any pet and succeed but a fire pet is the superior pet in 90%+ situations as you level solo, duo, and even often grouped unless you have good CC and never need offtanking.
Fire pet is also your single best mana/dmg spell to cast honestly anyways so I'd rather summon 4 fire pets than 2 earth pets and nuke if it honestly came down to that.
Best bet for mage is get fire focus asap and find a caster to duo with (enchanter, mage, necro all perfect duos with other pets) so you don't lose xp form pet doing most of dmg. insanely powerful combos and you are your own holy trinity played right... tank, healer, and dps. Plenty of ways to skin a cat, I just think that one gets you the best hide so to speak.
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Every one keeps making the point that Fire is best because of DS. Don't forget, Mages get castable FIRE DS and can add that to any pet or player they choose making all pets viable solo.