The Magician's Tower

I have a few questions about pet armor that I hope you all can help me with

I am using the level 71 pet, with the Summoner's Earring from the vendor in PoK. My understanding from reading this board is that he comes already equipped with armor. If I give him prime plate, does that upgrade his armor? I was wondering because I had given him 2 weapons and when I gave him a third, the weapons in his hands did not change. Does the armor he is summoned with come with a belt? How about the jewelry slots and the haste mask? How about the 76 pet, which I will have pretty soon?

I used to read about mages giving their pets defiant gear and such, too, but you don't see many people posting that any more, so I was just wondering. I often just self-buff my current pet for grouping or soloing and keep my completely tanked-out air pet in suspension, especially since I duo with a crazy necro a lot and my pet tends to die quite a bit ;p

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and yes, our pets will equip defiant armor. However you do need to keep the required/recommended level in mind regarding the pets and armor. Pets will upgrade gear based on AC. Keep this in mind when you do upgrade it because it will equip a 18AC 0HP item over a 17AC 500HP item.

The rule of thumb I use to keep it simple when explaining this: a focused pet from TSS (71-75) comes only with phantom armor; everything beyond that comes with everything for that pet's era but weapons. A pet's era is TSS if 71-75, SoF 76-80, etc. I am not sure why the TSS pets got crappy armor but it's better than nothing, especially since the armor spell was hella rare when TSS was current.

The link Tweelis gave is a better place to go, though.