Try the air pet. I know it dies quicker and doesnt do as much damage, but it actually holds aggro best of all. Most of the time I can just reach 50% damage with my nukes before the mob dies without getting aggro. From 34 to 43 I nuke once at about 80%, then at 60 to 50 and then until the mob dies.
Sometimes I get aggro, but the stun of the air pet really does a lot of aggro, so mostly I am lucky to not get beaten to a pulp, because the pet gets back aggro quickly enough. Sometimes not, but still better than all the other pets, since there is also an issue of the pets not casting enough, and thus the earth pet root doesnt help that much.
In live you couldnt even nuke fast enough to get aggro from an air pet, go figure.
Right now I am thinking of shelving my mage because of this aggro issue. I find chain summoning highly boring and feeling that I am not using my class abilities to the max, when I do it. I mean why use sword of runes or muzzle of mardu (not to mention buy it for 20k) and burnout if your pet dies all the time anyway?
The mage solely depends on his pet, thats why he doesnt have any other defensive spells. If it doesnt work properly, its useless. I would never try to camp lower guk or similar solo with a mage at this state because I am sure the earth pet would not root enough and thus runners would kill me and I wouldnt be able to kill mobs quickly enough without getting pounded to death all the time.
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