Bodybagger is right about the Water pet not backstabbing till level 54. I am so used to my high level Mage forgot.
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So I would still say Fire pet solo, Air pet groups. But if you have a bad puller and a lot of adds I would say use the Fire pet to take on a single to kill. It really depends on how the group is or what mobs you are going against solo. And it is really VERY hard to get all 4 pets at the same level with the damn research thing that you are trading off a lower level pet at times to summon. Mage is at times easy and hard as hell at the same time.
And now with the latest patches I have found Pet agro to be pretty good. So Earth pet sort of works a little better now than say 6 months ago. So more options lol.
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] But I would only use it in really ugly situations and that is probably not something you want to get into on a Mage anyways.
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