Re: The problem with priests (short essay)

Urbin wrote:
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A pet - in most cases - is a disposable DOT in instances. In some - rare -
cases it may require healing.

A pet is also marvelous basically free CC. And they are designed to take
hits, so you have hits going on a pet instead of on a clothie who can't
keep his burst damage under control.

I have done instances up to gnomer with a hunter (boar pet, I used to
call it a pig to get him mad ;-) ). What he did was impressive. His boar
actually switched targets and kept control easily in instances like
Stockades (with one mob frozen for the first couple of seconds). I as a
druid was probably healing and dpsing (and putting thorns on the boar).
We also had a warrior dwarf female engineer with us at times. I will
never forget the time I had to let her get killed with the endboss in
Gnomer and she kept cheering us on the party channel as I turned to bear
and tried to safe some healthpoints of my party members that way :-)

The reason she died in the first place was because we hadn't worked out
what the buttons were for so there were lots of party members blowing up
in an uncontrolled way. Once two of our party were on button duty
Thermaplug was a lot easier :-)

Thomas
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"Forget it. I am taking my own chances now" - Dee, Mean Guns
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