Interesting, I believe the Alpha Dog Pets are not using the proper weapons. They’re using Wolf Weapons which are 14 damage. Which means they are doing around a third less damage then they are supposed to.

I don’t know if this applies to the named dogs. Going to have to dig a little deeper there. But I assume they do, since they likely use the same template just modified with their own stats and perks.

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Nope, they are using the wrong weapons. Brutus is using the 14 and 17 damage (17 is charge and heavy bite) weapons used by regular wolves (item rows 23841-23848), when they should be using Alpha Dog weapons (rows 23530-23433… missing 4 attacks which is why this probably is).

But yeah… what I said in the beginning still stands. Use demons over pets if you can.