Mage Epic pet vs Water pet

[ghakim]

Really curious about this.

Obviously in 6 man content the advantages of epic pet blow the water away.

On a raid where dps is the only consideration which will do more damage? Let's assume that the water pet will be in position to land it's backstabs 80% of the time and that the epic pet can land it's procs.

Thanks!

[Vellaen]

If the water pet is max level and can backstab as consistently as you estimate it might come close to the epic, but if the epic pet's spells are landing then it will still win in DPS every time.

[dafier]

Water doesn't come close to epic DPS on raid targets. Water is good but Epic is just as good as a decked out (Velious raid geared) Monk when it comes to DPS meter.