I never said or even thought anything of the sort. I actually expressly said the exact opposite in my response to Zantai:
I didn’t even know about this whole “pets are dead” until Zantai basically tried to assassinate Maya’s character by implying she instilled that idea in me even though to this very moment I have never even come across such a message from her.
I get it, it seems he doesn’t like her on a personal level from the little I gathered because she had some run ins with the staff. But despite anything, her input in invaluable when it comes to pet builds and I appreciate all the work she has put forth in this community.
If I was a dev, I’d be rewarding her humongous unpaid contributions in any way I could and would put her in charge of a “pet council” along with other members since in my opinion, they would do a great job weighting in on decisions like these.
Anyway, I just wanted to get this off my chest because it’s been rubbing me off a bit how she gets treated here sometimes.
The conclusion I arrived at, which is that pets are in a worse situation than before, despite all the last minute nerf reversions made by the devs, I made it on my own, by reading threads such as Maya’s and the “final pet changes” thread.
To make my opinion extremely clear on this:
- Pet builds should be an “easy” mode, as to be accessible for newbies and those less skilled.
- They should be very casual in its approach, requiring no direct piloting. All the heavy thinking should be put on synergizing devotion, skills, items, etc.
- Unguided casual pet builds should be tougher than unguided casual non-pet builds, but not to the point of clearing superbosses, or other very end game content.
- Professional pet builds should be tougher than professional non-pet builds, and be able to clear any end game content quite easier without taking risks.
- The shift from survivability to DPS and micro management won’t literally kill pet builds but as others pointed out, will surely make them weaker and a lot more tedious to play; whilst making them less casual and easy-going.