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Narayanese · Aug 03, 2006, 05:43 PM // 17:43

What type of pet (hearty, elder, dire) is best for a bunny thumper, now that they get DP? Should I keep my dire tiger?

Guillaume De Sonoma · Aug 03, 2006, 07:04 PM // 19:04

Well Dire deals more damage and that should be your goal, but it has less health and the DP addition might make them slightly less desirable, I would still say dire. Hearty is only extra health and minus damage anyways.

Zui · Aug 03, 2006, 08:27 PM // 20:27

Quite honestly, I think it depends on what you play.

For TA, I'd go with Dire. The matches are short(1:30-2 minutes being the average), and your pet doesn't have time to accumulate alot of DP. In addition, your only real objective is to kill the other team, so there's less tactical movement around the map, so your pet doesn't get DPed because it refuses to disengage as often :P

For GvG, I *might* actualy go Hearty. It's 60 more health from Elder, and 120 more health from Dire, but 15% less damage than an Elder pet. Either way you still get some descent damage, and I think the health aspect with pets now getting DP definently does help with you not being blacked out due to pet death as much. You can pretty much wand-spike a Dire with 60dp to death, you need 120 more damage to kill a Hearty pet.

I'm absolutly positive on the use of Dire pets being superior in Team Arenas, but for GvG, I'm not as sure.