I don’t believe that they really consider pets to be anything more than a functional decoration with a ‘bite’ if you excuse the pun.
I know they’ve said their stance is that pets are sort of the lower tier of followers. But that doesn’t really make sense because of the way progression works. You need thraltaker to do any sort of taming. What they should do is merge the taming knowledges with Thralltaker and then make a statement about it.
To be fair I do believe pets need a bit of a health buff. But I don’t ever see them getting competitive damage compared to thralls. I do believe pets should either level fast (like demons) or simply come out at max level. Then they can have a bit of an expendable nature that isn’t punishing.
That’s my biggest gripe about the follower system in general is the time it takes to train something that can be lost in seconds. The second part doesn’t bother me, loss is part of the game. But followers are the only thing you routinely lose that has such an investment.
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