One of the valid points that Abashi made about that duel and the warrior
losing repeatedly was that the pet was equipped with dual FS daggers. This
added a Haste component to the pet that the warrior apparently did not have.
Abashi rightly said that either the warrior should have been Hasted or the
pet should not have been equipped with daggers for that test.

> No, Abashi is correct on this point. A L49 pet requires words
> and components which are very rare and difficult to obtain -
> roughly as difficult as or rarer than equipment like the FBSS.
> A lot of the high level mages and necros are using lower level
> pets because they simply haven't obtained the items needed for
> their higher level pet spells. So the correct comparison is
> between L49 pet and L49 warrior with equipment typical for
> that level. (Actually, the correct comparison would be L49
> necro and L49 pet vs L49 warrior. We're already being
> massively conservative comparing the warrior to just the pet.)
>
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> John H. Kim
> kim@...