[1.1.9.1] Chaos Lost Souls Cabalist - CR 3:49

[Maya]

If you lower the flats on the rings they lose value with pet builds that don’t have the luxury of so many pets.

Quite the contrary. Flat damage affects Pet builds with more Pets than ones with fewer critters running about.

So the nerf will hit skeletons harder than other builds.

the set basically combines duplication of the strongest allround pet in the game with buffs to the highest damage pet skill in the game.

Neither Skeletons nor Hellhounds fit “strongest” or “highest damage”.

A toxic combination

No more toxic than Ghol Blightfiends.

A pyromancer that just uses the 2 dogs and forfeits all the other bonuses can already walk around in SR80, unlike a skeleton defiler for example. My strongest hybrid pet build that can almost do SR85 happens to be based on ghol and doesn’t use any skeletons at all

And a Pet Battlemage can do SR 75: Bottle Fwuffy - Pet Battlemage
That says nothing other than Pets being safe even on meme builds for SR pushing.