…and a surprise patch changed things further and for the worse…
Consider all of my endgame pet builds to be in limbo since none of them are performing to my standards anymore in 1.2, with the latest round of Pet nerfs.
Pets are still great for leveling with and Budget setups don’t require much in terms of investment. But their endgame performance, atleast from my perspective has dropped to the point I cannot recommend them anymore.
If you just want to pretend to be commanding a horde of minions, go for player scaled pets.