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What game has the best Pet Class and why?
GeezerGamer
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What games have the best play styles for pet users? It has to be from currently available games in their current state. So, if you say WoW Hunter, you need to be talking about WoD and not TBC.
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Now if they made it so that NPCs would ignore pets and go after the masters... then that would mean you'd have to actually do something because instead of your pet being the tank and you the dps, you are now the tank and your pet is the dps.
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WAR: Age of Reckoning - Squig Herder
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It was the choice if you wanted to solo in the game.Cool thing is you can use Jug pets "magical conjured pets" or you can tame an in game mob to be your pet.Taming can be quite challenging and keeps you on your toes.
The versatility is that if you decide to play another class for example a WHM "White Mage/healer",you could /BST sub class your Beastmaster class and still be the same level as your main.BST is the only class that can do that in the game,all other sub classes are 1/2 the main level.This means you can be a Healer and still charm/tame pets to fight alongside you,team up and now you have two pets and two players,both can be healers or both can be whatever class you want.
Further more,you could simply sub class a Ninja if you want and give your player defense abilities to recast or tame a new pet if yours dies.It also gives huge versatility in kiting,you simply send your pet in and run far away,then call your pet towards you and they come back very quickly.
Level 76 there are a couple Rabbit pets that heal you and your whole party if so need be.Some are tanks some are high dps.
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No one run the spec in PVE though, since AI targetting can be quite problematic. Plus PVE is always about clear speed in any game anyways.
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City of Villains Mastermind is the benchmark to measure pet classes.
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Coercer and Illusionist also but not near as powerful although they are fun to play.
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WAR Squig Herder was solid as well, because you could go INSIDE your pet, and wear it like a suit.
However, let us not forget the greats. DAOC... Bonedancer (You had numerous pets, with numerous builds), Animist (you summoned groves of pets that were turrets, you would lead people to them and they would die... to nourish the soil for more plant turrets), Theurgist (you would spam summon so many pets they would cause so much chaos), and Necromancer (you became a ghost and couldn't be attacked, your pet would be your new body and would do all the fighting for you). Never will we see their like again in this copy paste world we call new MMOs.
EDIT, just saw the WHY part.
- PLD - paladin tank.
- WHM - white mage healer.
- BLM - black mage DPS.
- RDM - red mage with buffs/debuffs/heals/dps.
- RNG - ranger with bow ranged attacks.
There were also several different different modules that can be found, crafted, quested and purchased that can be swapped into your puppet that can affect it's gameplay. It was such a downer that FFXIV neglected to add this job to their game.Played: EQ, EQ2, Vanguard, WAR, WoW, LoTRO, CoX, CO, GW2, FFXIV: ARR, AoC, Rift, TSW, SWTOR, TERA, BnS, ESO