Pet tanking has had its ups and downs for sure. One major improvement, which wasn't from this expansion, is the ability for pets to hold agro even when a player is in melee range. This opens a lot of doors for groups. Monks and rogues are no longer limited to weak throwing weapons when no real tank is available. Overall, great improvement for the group game.
On to the topic at hand: how do necromancer pets do in the new content? Pretty well from my experience actually, which was surprising. In the Frontier Mountains, I was able to fairly easily tank the trash without any babysitting. Named proved a bit tough, but doable. On the named, it was important to have it slowed, and to cycle Companion's Aegis AA, and Cascading Doomshield. These helped a lot for the mercenary healer to keep up. As always, you can use your Pestilent Paralysis to boot adds away, and skeleton swarm spell to hold another. at the time of this testing, I have Enhanced Minion XX, which is raid level, but several expansions behind the max.
Remember though when you pet tank a zone that is tough, take care of the pet first, and work in the DPS after pet seems stable. With even just 2 players and mercenaries, you can knock out tons of content. Use a healer and a DPS, I wouldn't bother with the tank merc if you can handle them at all with your little minion.
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ReplyDeleteStumbled upon your blog and there is some nice help / guidance. Can you please let me know what level pet are you using for tanking at 105 ? Also your Minion Pet is it a minio or pet and at what level do necros get this Zombie pet ?
The pet image changes with the level of pet focus you have. I think Enhanced Minion XVII (17) is the first level it takes effect.
ReplyDeleteAt 105, your best tank is the 102 pet,which is a warrior class. The 105 is higher by spell level, but it is a rogue class.