Pet builds need a buff

[GIJW]

Some thoughts about balance

We work with the players that work with us and post builds that both need buffs and nerfs (every update ever has had more buffs to underperforming builds than nerfs to OP ones), but we also have our own metrics for what is considered balanced. People that hoard OP builds like some treasure don’t seem to understand that we will inevitably stumble on them anyway, and the end result typically is that we hit them harder than may be necessary because we don’t have player data to baseline against. So …

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I get that there are some strong feelings about how easy to play pets are, but in terms of raw performance, their damage is not really out of line. Pet durability overall is too high, as evidenced by how many bonus versus pet modifiers we’ve had to add to boss attacks over the years to compensate for that, but pet builds being a safe playstyle is kind of…the entire point of them.