Chain summoning, or reclaiming your pet is nice. I'm not here to argue that. I'm just here to offer another option.
What I usually do on my mage was to summon a fire pet (with focus) and then mem earth pet and swap focus from torch to the shovel. Then I would send my pet in to a group of 3-4 mobs. Then I would burn the one my pet was on down and summon an earth pet as my fire pet was going down. Once my earth pet was up I'd send him in to get aggro and burn a second one down. Usually about 1 or 2 nukes would kill the mobs, since they were all weakened by my fire pet. After the mobs were dead and the spawns staggered, I would reclaim my earth pet and summon a fresh fire pet with the torch and med up. Then it's just a matter of killing the mobs as they spawn.
I used this tactic on bandits leveling up, and then even in places like the scryer camp in Guk where I soloed from 20 to 24 easily. Again, I'm not saying it's a better way, just a different way. I found it quite fun and I'd usually out-damage my pet anyways since the ds is neutral damage. YMMV. ☺
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