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Originally Posted by Itchybottom
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I think a focused water pet is the best for soloing. I spend far less mana keeping it healed, than I would healing or chain summoning fire pets. Earth pets are pretty situational, and get hit too much. After the patch that changed pet DPS, I feel that around level 20, fire pet becomes less useful for a soloing mage. The incoming damage at, or around that level becomes too dangerous for the additional DS to really make that much of a difference. ~Level 29
Reclaim Energy is going to be too costly for me at end-game too, since I am going to rely on air pets, with two gnoll-hide lariats. But I'm probably playing "wrong."
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There is no playing "wrong". Play however makes you have the most fun I say. There will always be theorycrafters out there that'll crunch everything down to exp/hour gain, but for some people it's not about getting the most exp in the fastest way possible. Every situation, camp, etc is going to be different.
I personally still use my fire pet at level 20, and even though it takes dmg quickly, it's actually to me the fastest exp because I have spots that I know I can get single pulls, and never need to worry about an add. With how much damage the DS does in return, I can kill mobs far faster, and with far less mana usage than any other pet do to the DS being pretty much like free manaless damage. If I plan on camping something that I have a good chance of adds though, I tend to use the water pet since it's the most well rounded.
Like my previous post stated, at level 29 it's still going to be the most efficient to do what you're doing now, pick your favorite pet and keep it healed. At high levels though the pets start having too many hps for it to be the most efficient to just try to heal your pet if efficiency is what you're going for.