[Messianic]

IIRC, Chanter pets are actually really good damage - they just have crap for hp, and they're uncontrollable.

Their uncontrollable nature makes it annoying when you get adds - it just makes it more difficult to CC, since pets tend to bounce targets when two mobs are attacking them - they won't focus. The way I found to refocus with pet classes is to "pet back off" then "pet attack." The pet then resumes attacking the correct target (for a little while).

Chanter pets are kind of loose cannons. Luckily, they're cheap. But dual wielding and having a bunch of haste actually makes them pretty decent dps.