For me it depends on what I'm doing. When I'm doing older content (currently hunting in Plane of Shadows for an aug) I use my water pet simply because my merc can easily keep it alive when I burn mobs down. While the DPS upgrade isn't huge every bit helps. However when doing more difficult content I...

Keep in mind that while shaman have slows (that are always at least partially mitigated) druids have ATK debuff spells. http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=18405 and http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/spell.html?spell=25726 When I put items with +ATK on my pet I see a marked increase...

If you have a gold/all access account then when you log in make sure you click the "autogrant" button in your AA window. Since you're level 85 you'll probably have around 4k AA's just by clicking that button. Autogrant is a new feature that'll give you all the AA's for your class up to you...

http://oi61.tinypic.com/24vtahk.jpg http://oi61.tinypic.com/24vtahk.jpg Click on this if the above image is too difficult to read. So I decided to work on tradeskills a bit. For those of you that would like a bit of an edge when equipping your pet here's a chart showing what our level 101+ pets com...

Over the last week or so I've ran several parses under various conditions. If anybody is interested in viewing them or at least getting the relevant data let me know. Some of the results are surprising while others are expected.

Here's the DI/DB spread for the above fight. Em15 level 101 air pet with all pet defensive AA's up through CotF. Only buff was burnout 12, rank 1. No cleric buffs, no groundswell, no fortify, etc. Vabanab - vs - High Guard Stavus BASH DAMAGE ONLY!!! Attempts 819 100% Missed 73 8.91% Dodged 8 0.98% P...

Same mob, round 2. Buffed with only burnout 12, rank 1. High Guard Stavus on 11/28/2014 in 1490sec Total --- DMG: 5375442 (100%) @ 3608 dps (3608 sdps) --- DMG to PC: 7169658 @4828dps Vabanab --- DMG: 5375437 (100%) @ 3608 dps (3608 sdps) ------ Total: 5375437 -- Crush: 4798419 -- DirDmg: 389857 -- ...

I did extensive parsing in shards landing forever and a day ago. Since TDS came out I am going to do some more testing on the same guards. Here's my first parse: EM15 level 101 air pet. Even con at 101. Buffs include burnout 12 rank 1, iceflame eminence rank 1, certitude rank 2 (from merc), bastion ...

Up until now I've been using High Guard Stravik or Stavus in Shards landing for pet parses. Anybody know of similar style mobs in TDS or CotF? Mobs with no special abilities but disgusting amount of hitpoints and a pretty high attk rating compared to similar mobs for the expansion is what I'm lookin...

I finally ventured into TDS a couple days ago. A Rising Storm and Gathering Clouds were pretty straight forward. Gathering Clouds I had a couple shadow knights join me but it could have been molo'd by having fluffly tank one while throwing gargoyles at the second squid. Just to be contrary I'll disa...