Rage Pet Timing

[kalipto]

I have a few questions about the rage pet.

Firstly:
What do we call it? I've always called it a rage pet, but I hear others call it a swarm pet and still yet others a temp, dumbfire, or even gargoyle. So what's the official magician name for it?

Secondly:
There are a handful of AA's that affect our rage pets timing. From shorting recast to extending duration.

Extended Swarm = 3 seconds duration
Extended Rumbling Servant = ? to duration
Robe focus (for t4 anyway) = 2 seconds to duration
Hastened Rumbling Servant = 6 seconds off recast

With Rank 2 of the level 90 pet; by default they last 20 seconds and have a recast of 19 seconds. But after all these aa's they'll last 26+ seconds and recast within 13 seconds?

Does that mean I can pretty much keep 2 out all the time if I'm going for burst dps? And does anyone know the amount that Extended Rumbling Servant aa extends?

Right now I only have the level 80 pet and these aa's seem to have no effect on him. I hope that changes with the 90 pet. My current spell definitely doesn't refresh within 13 seconds.

[svenalo]

1. Most posts I see say RS or garg. I am not sure we have decreed an "official" name...temp and dumbfire would probably get a blank stare from some, though, swarm in and of itself often is used to just mean the babies from Host of the Elements, and rage pet often can refer to that decoy pet we used to get so that could also confuse some.
2. It IS a swarm pet by definition, even though it's a swarm of one.
3. The robe focus for an expansion effects the RS for that expansion, but not for prior or succeeding expansions. So the HoT one effects the HoT RS only.
4. Your analysis in general is correct, but I haven't pulled out a calculator to see if the times are spot on. Regardless they are close enough and you, as you have found in the analysis, can keep 2 up a lot of the time at the cost of burning through your mana fast. And if you happen to get RK3 of the garg you can sometimes even have 3 up for a brief period.
5. I think most if not all of the extended/hastened AA's only effect the 85 RS and higher - pretty sure the dev didn't make them work on earlier levels.

[Mindrix]

Pet has been "RS" or "RS-line" for a long while. It's used some form of "R"-word with "Servant" to follow since the beginning. Just call it "RS" or "flappy" and people know what you mean.

The AA based extensions only work on the lvl 85 & 90 pets.

Items that focus the pet only work on those Pets. Just the nature of it.

Timing sounds about right. Except under Twincast & 7th year, RS is always your best DPS spell, for an individual cast. It'll just eat your mana badly. RS is also your most mana efficient spell that gives acceptable DPS (assuming you're on top of the Mob & it stays up the whole time). Get used to using it, it's important. But until you have a lot of mana, it just eats your mana pool apart.

[svenalo]

Make sure you camp the conjuration aug out of the LDON raids to help with the mana cost...

[Calebe]

We call it a RS pet though I have never heard anyone call if a flappy as that is what people say to refer to the wizard 'flappy' pets they use for mana fire focus etc.. and for mages the servant of ro we have called a flappy at times also. Perhaps different names on different servers, but RS as Mind said is the most commonly used name for he raging servant line.

Calebe