Mages, let pets kill or do 51%?

[Kich867]

Heya, managed to convince a friend of mine to join P99, he's playin a mage.

He's level 12 now, just got his new spells. How much do you guys just say fuck it and let those little ballers slap shit for you and how much do you try to take the 51% for full xp?

So far, it seems like to us its simpler/faster to just let the pet kill shit and eat the 50% xp loss.

Also, feel like I've seen differing opinions on this of water vs fire pets for soloing. One guide says bluntly that fire pets are terrible and you should just use water pets when soloing, but the natural DS on the fire pet and nukes seems nice? And I've seen some sentiment that maybe later on the DS carries a bit harder and its easier to get 51% of the XP since the DS is neutral damage.