DaShiv:
You might consider testing replacing Mogdrogen with Manticore, Bysmiel, Staff, and either Murmur or Solael. I haven’t done any number-crunching, but I suspect the RR/extra pet might outweigh Mogdrogen’s bonuses since stacking so much flat damage turns each additional pet into a very significant DPS increase. Another hound can also help provide enough critical mass of pets to disrupt enemy pathing and hold chokes, especially since swarmlings are so small.
Wondered this myself.
DaShiv:
Just a small nit: lightning pets haven’t been considered pet meta once Glyph and Spark of Ultos were stripped of their excessive flat lightning/conversion/crit/speed bonuses back in 1.0.0.7 (Dec 2016). In fact, in all of 2017 there hadn’t been a single video of any lightning pet build successfully soloing Gladiator until the release of AoM, with Stormbringer of Malmouth breathing new life into the strategy.
Prior to AoM, builds designed around effective use of Primal Instinct were the main Gladiator contenders. Thus, the AoM nerf to Primal Instinct probably helped encourage the lightning revival as well.
True, but I’m assuming AoD was referring more to the defacto loadout for pet conjurers explicitly. I don’t get out much though so I don’t know if electro instinct was just my conjurer setup for most of that time or a lot of peoples.