Magician pets always cast periodically as opposed to a melee proc. In fact, researching old guides for magicians solo'ing will probably dredge up advice of using an Earth pet to split a pair of mobs. On retail (pre PoP anyway) every standard level 49 or under pet would lead off with a cast if their spell was off of its internal cooldown (not the same as a normal player's). So you would look at two mobs, pause for a bit to make sure the Earth pet's was refreshed, have it attack one mob, it would be rooted (with luck on the resist), and then you'd put the pet immediately on the 2nd target and burn it down as fast as you could, swapping back to the first target just as root was wearing off.
I did this a ton in the Hole on Fennin Ro server, using my magician to solo the entrance golems. On a retail server back then you could pull the roamer and the first 4 safely. It was the last two that were too close to each other, so you'd use the earth pet to split them carefully in breaking the spawns.
Sadly, they're fooked on this server as all the entrance golems are in aggro range of each other. Nearly died on my necro discovering the difference here. Sucked as it was a good spot to exp from 44 to 49.
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10-31-2015, 03:58 AM
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