Ok so I started my first pet build ever yesterday, it is a Cabalist. First of all let’s say I love it so far, skeletons are a bit squishy, but I expect them to get more resilient as I invest more points into that tree.
I’ve been putting all points into phisique because that increases my survival and I don’t see how other 2 options would impact my pets at all. Ok spirit could be obvious if your pets die a lot and you have to recast them all the time, but if that is happening you’re probably not doing it right anyway. So I’m not playing a caster, I’m not playing melee, so I guess no attributes really apply to pets anyway. So my guess would be pretty much everything into physique.
Second question, how do I make my character at least a bit more resilient? I’m playing on HC and obviously this is the biggest issue with pet builds, the weakness of a character without his minions. Putting everything into physique is one way, I guess I just have to strive towards finding the most defensive gear that I’m able to come across, while potentially also giving me pet bonuses obviously.
How do you generally approach a pet build? I need some general advice on it since it’s my first and how this fundamentaly differentiates from basic 2 archetypes of melee/caster/hybrid.
I’m not trying to play as a hybrid, I’m trying to keep other options to a minimum and focus on pets as much as possible. I will be picking up some spells to help my pets and make their work easier though, one of those is already CoF, which is very useful, helps my pets die less and makes their work easier.