Lvl 53 Mage Fire Pet, what's the point?
 

Just got this pet and don't understand it's role. Fire pets have been my goto farming pet. Just got this one and threw it at a few Drolvargs (one at a time) near FV outpost and was disappointed by its performance. The pets damage shield was doing like 4 pts, and it occasionally cast a nuke. The pet seemed to run out of mana after a kill or so and was half dead after a fight.

What is the use case for this pet?

Thanks

From what I understand, it isn't really useful. It could be used as a novelty if having a nuking pet is your thing, but it is outclassed by every other pet type level 51+

Sadly the 50+ fire pets are useless. I don't know what they were thinking when they designed them. They stop meleeing all the time to cast their stupid spells.

At lvl53 while fearkiting with a Necro partner, is the best pet monster summoning 2?

Honestly, as a level 60 mage, I never once used the fire pet seriously ... at any level.

Water was my main pet, for anything I could kill with one pet. The earth pet was my second main, for fighting anything that requires chaining pets. And the air pet was ... all I could use in Plane of Sky, so at least it got some use there :)

But fire? I guess it's good if you're fighting really low level blues, but I just never needed it at any of the camps I did.

Maybe vs a low hp caster. Air pet probably stuns and bashes more anyway.

I wouldn't know tho. Haven't gotten a 53 mage yet.

You missed out on the level 12 fire pet. It SLAPS.

12 fire pet can eat most of Crushbone

That or the 49 water pet. I used the monster summoning because it can be pretty funny
Fear kiting seafuries with a shark

If you actually want a fire pet in the 50+ range, you'll need to use DDD. It's got the damage shield you're looking for (45!), but cannot equip weapons (not as much of a problem now that swords are fixed, but that means no deadwoods). I have not tested whether it will equip a mask, however.