When I changed from Necro to DE Cleric during Kunark on live I missed my Necro's pet from time to time. With the start of Velious I built a second pc and started to box.
Guild decided to be on Giant faction, we started to kill in Icewell Keep almost right away and with the Velium Frosted Armor dropping there I twinked an Iksar SK. Probably the first lizard in full plate on the server. I got him a Noctivagant Blade and started to level my pet.
I gave up on it during his 30s. Kill speed sucked, killing a mob just took so very long. I switched to Ranger. Worse armor, acceptable weapons choices (I wasn't rich, things had to be cheap. Most expensive item was the FBSS I think). More utility than the SK - from my point of view - but of course no decent races are able to become Rangers. I settled on a pesky Wood Elf.
The difference was interesting. The kill speed was much higher and due to that I needed less mana to keep the Ranger alive. I didn't expect that. I never looked back at that SK as a Cleric's pet.
Of course with a group it is different, since the SK is not there to be the dps.
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