[nalkin]

I agree that the nerf is kind of ridiculous, and the agro nerf is just insane, but really the method I suggested is hardly anymore difficult than leveling as a pre-nerf mage. Do you all not chain pet when you are soloing? If you are not then you should start because I can not imagine what you would be doing. Then, to bypass the nerf, all you have to do is desummon your current pet at the end, resummon a new one, and do a small nuke (a large enough nuke to do over 50% of remaining xp).

Also you can use the agro nerf to your advantage. If you are trying to split some mobs send a pet on one, then continually sit and stand to pingpong the rest of the mobs back and forth while you let your pet solo the one. Sitting down generates enough agro so pull the others off your pet as long as hes not hitting them.