Chanter Pet vs. Necro Pet?

[Omnimorph]

Weapon's never affected the damage to my knowledge, only the delay, that's why necro's used to give their pets FS daggers (3/19?) to make them hit much faster. Giving your pet a 2 hander weapon will loser it's dps if it can dual wield.

[odizzido]

Yeah when live was first out I would give my pet a rusty halberd at level one to hit for 20, and then when his normal attack got to about 20 I switched to mage daggers.

On this server though I think the only reason to give weapons is to force dual wield at certain levels. They seem to have no other effect(one handed weapons).

As to pet power, the necro pet will annihilate the enc pet at higher levels. They are still pretty good DPS though.

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oh on live they nerfed the weapon speed thing for pets. I am sure it would be nerfed already here if it were to follow live. The level one pet hitting for 20 should still be in though.

[Gorgetrapper]

I'm not sure if you guys remembered, but if you ever gave your lvl 1 pet a 2handed weapon, it would hit for 20 or 24 max, I forget which. But that's how it worked. Delay also played a part in it, but not on p99 it doesn't.