Get a decent melee weapon and swing. Seriously. If necessary, politely ask a higher level magician to make you a modulating rod (dam 8 delay 26) and summon a lot of bandages and tank stuff to the face. Your nukes + melee damage will out score your air pet which only procs a stun rather than additional damage.
Drop the rod on the ground and have a level 1 alt pick it up and punch out a guard, storing the rod on a corpse between play sessions. At level 12 you won't need it any longer, but you will have to nuke more and meditate more to outdamage the pet so use a Water pet instead as its threat generation is more than enough to deal with your nuking in closing the damage gap.
At 16 everything is easy peasy with the new nuke.
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