Invest in CoS or OVP ?

[Izmael]

When you charm solo, you quite often don't have a pet up. Maybe it just died, or you "freed" it for some reason, for example to save it to break repops, or to let it regen and reuse, or because you need to invis to some other location. Or maybe you have 3 living mobs rooted and dotted and no undead in sight, so you have nothing to charm atm. Literally a ton of reasons why you would not have a charmed pet at some point.

Making a level 5 suicide pet 1) costs mana 2) costs bone chips 3) costs a spell slot and time switching spells (you don't exactly have unused spell slots when soloing, especially charm soloing). Eye has none of these issues.

Also you can't control a summoned skeleton pet as well as the eye (which you control like you would control yourself pretty much - open doors, swim, etc). Your level 5 summoned pet will need a target or at least a nearby mob's name to attack it. An eye doesn't need a target.

Uh.. let me see which of your points are still left undebunked.

Oh yeah, raid recovery. Eye is very handy to recover from a wipe, as a necro you get mana faster and are able to twitch people sooner. Your raid's overall recovery time is shorter.

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