It might just be for twohanders. I know what you said is the case with one-handed weapons...I was able to lower the max hit on a pet when I gave it a twohander out of curiosity once - but obviously, I have no documented proof.

Maybe i'll try it again later on the same level pet I did it before (level 8 or 12 necro pet), and provide logs...

I was almost positive that I was able to boost low level pet max hits with 2-handed rusty weapons, so that was the only type I tried giving him. And I'm "almost" positive that it made him hit for less rather than harder - whereas the enchanter pet, given the same rusty weapon, hit harder than it was without it.

Like the guy above me, I have no hard evidence. But I'll be happy to parse the scenario one of these days with my buddy to show it, if that is indeed a bug.

On live if you gave your pet a weapon with a higher damage value than it's fists then it would use the weapons damage. If the weapon was lower it would still use the pets base damage. Your pet would also attack with the delay of whatever weapon you gave it, making FS daggers overpowered.

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.

oh dang i remember that! FS Daggers were way OP. but if they have been nerfed like above said, i'd definitely understand..

any DEVS out there want to comment on this?

It was pre-nerfed because it was too powerful...they've probably already commented on it a couple times (or a ton), although obviously it wouldn't bother me if they mentioned it here as well.

orly! :D

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.

Oh its not like it was on live.

I'll comment for the Devs on this one:

They are not currently spending time and energy on ways to improve the effectiveness of pet classes on p99. lol.

Something you wanna share with us Bubbles? Did you secretly join the dev team when we weren't looking? ;P