Skeletal pets

[Twinkodachi]

Simple question, are the Pale Master pets worth investing in? I recently picked up the prestige as a wizard and the pets seemed near worthless. I even had the augment summoning feat.

[Ryiah]

I know in the case of my skeletal mages that I've found them to be useful as a little extra DPS. The blackbone one in particular has what seems to be four spells. Magic missile, fireball, firewall, and hold monster. It uses them all pretty decently. Its especially funny to pop it in DQ1 on casual and watch it firewall Lailat. Only downside is it burns SP fast and doesn't recover it over time.

[timewalker]

i would say the 3 knights for 3 points are worth it the frostmarrow one especially is a little beast with augment summons

[Ghoste]

12 palemasters who summon 12 arcanes, end up with 24 death auras healing them. Doesn't happen much, just saying...

[timewalker]

no they just need to give forms a toggle instead of timer......could that group die?

[voodoogroves]

I've got a two Pale Masters and am RARELY in one of the forms ... but the other day in the IQ I was in a party w/ a second and we both powered up Death Aura and one of the forms (I went Lich since I was wailing like a fiend - think he went Wraith). The dual-healing was amusing.

I would love to run a few Pale-Master only quests.

The original topic was the pets - my other Pale Master is one I'm leveling with the "army" concept. I tend to solo with a hireling (because hirelings with DV are cheaper than SP pots) ... and at 9 I have SF/GSF enchantment, augment summoning and all available Pale Master pets. I can say it is amusing to finish an at-level quest where the experience log shows the kill count as ... me 0 .... hireling 0 ... misadventure 100.

I did Tear at 7 on normal w/o Augment Summoning and ACCIDENTIALLY tagged fireball instead of charm and ended up with a kill myself. So sad.

I find the pets useful since you can apply different ones for different situations. Sometimes I want the archer to harry folks ... sometimes the knight to hack up some zombies ... and sometimes the mage to punish fleshies.