[Feedback] Why are Pet skills so point hungry?

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Why isn’t this last one combined into a single skill with some player specific bonuses (like Phys Res and CDR) and turned on an alternative exclusive skill to lower the point investment? Or changing a little bit of the scaling on the Pet skills to lower the amount of points required to 10 each?

I am neither a great builder nor much of a pet player, but if Crate reduced the skill point investment as suggested by you, it would be a huge buff for pure pet builds.

But even with those you end up running out of points if you try to go hybrid or invest into any offensive capabilities for yourself.

I don’t understand why several Pet weapons offer player damage bonuses when pet builds demand so many points that you end up without anything left to invest on your own offensive skills. Opinions?

Some dev feedback on the topic of hybrid builds from last November:

A lot of pet items are bloated with OA

Hybrid pet builds are a weak point in the GD build spectrum, I freely admit that we did not hit the mark with that play style and realistically probably won’t at this point in the game’s life cycle.

Are hybrid builds viable for most content? Sure. Will they be setting records or make the list for endgame suggestions? Unlikely. Could the issue be addressed at this point? Not without some serious review and likely undesirable repercussions echoing across other builds ( Cough Bane of the Winter King Cough ).