Kargor

Yes, pets do increase your stats (I'm assuming they haven't changed a lot; I haven't played for "a while"), but the increase is negligible. Maybe things get better at higher levels; pets level f*ing slow.

A useful function would be to pickup stuff for you, but back then that was nowhere near reliable, so I didn't waste a hotkey for that and instead just went to pickup stuff myself.

And the pet stupidity is annoying. They don't fight, but they don't retreat either, so you have to babysit them all the time and waste a lot of mined stuff to keep them alive.

If they would level while unsummoned, I'd happily exchange the useless stat increase for the comfort of not having to mine and babysit.

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