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I think that's still dangerous, but be open to experiments and creative way of thiking. Some tanks like their mob being rooted and say it's easier for them to hold aggro that way. Use solo for big fat hitters or for pet chaining. Or when farming silk in the Karanas because you are a tailor. Do that only when you are SURE the tank won't die. Oh, did I mention ? Vocarate Fire (pet summoned by the level 52 spell), Fire Elemental Bolt I, 486 DD. On TLP servers, the 52+ fire pets follow the "fire pet reform" the SoF expansion introduced : instead of being mediocre and weak wizards casting stupid random nukes and having a fairly low mana pool, they are now 'gun machines' : pet will autoroot on /pet attack command and chain cast fire bolts at your target. Sometimes, play with your Kunark fire pet.And it generates more aggro than the earth pet -which you shouldn't use in groups anyhow-, making it safer for the chanter to mez the add and for the cleric to keep healing the tank. Also, with the air pet, it is much easier to "pet mez" an add as it can tank fairly well. One interrupted complete heal means so much more than a couple shiny backstabs, but thats my personal opinion. The Greater Vocarate Air pet can stun mobs up to level 61. I belong to the minority which prefers air nonetheless for the stuns. Past Kunark, most mages use mainly air pet or water pet, everyone speaks about the dps of the rogue pet.Make yourself a macro line 1 /pet back off line 2 /pet attack, and keep your pet sowed if you can <-people will think you can control your pet, wow. Don't use the /pet attack feature in the pet window except when you want to queue attack a mob. The fire pet might forget to cast its DS when engaged right at summoning and therefore you lose the benefit of.the fire pet. No, chain petting fire pets is not a good idea. Earth pet the safest for chain petting because of the root. You still have the option of chain petting (you chain summon pets you start casting the new one and press the 'pet get lost' aka 'leave' button in the pet window 1 second before the casting time is over you do not touch the mob before the end, no nuke, no malo line, no dispell).
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So you have no means of "keeping pet alive" if you solo. They are good only for the cure component (they remove 10 disease/poison/curse counters per cast your pet is tashed or dotted ? use the pet heals - doesn't work against fire based dots and against the malo line of debuffs). Don't forget, no pet heals are ingame before Kunark, and the Kunark ones suck.And no, fire pet is not the best dps pet in classic, it's water (and no, it's nuke is not stronger than the water pet's one, only the DS is better than the one you can cast). Fire, it depends, the stronger DS doesn't outbalance it's weak tankage. Air sucks for dps and tanking in classic, can be useful in groups against casters, in Lower Guk for example.