So I normally play an end game templar but I was trying out some other classes recently including a sorcerer. I didn't level very far but I noticed some strange things and I was wondering if this is normal or if I am doing something wrong.
1. Are sorcerer pets useless?: I took the scamp and eventually morphed it to the clannfear. I found the pets to be nearly useless. They are so slow that the mobs would be nearly dead before they get a hit in. I didn't see any evidence that they were healing me in any way. I had Command/Control Pet mapped to a key. I was not sure how this worked. I first thought I could target a mob and command it to attack. This did nothing. I then thought that during combat I could order it to heal me (like the tooltip says). This did nothing. I also found my pet lagging behind and fighting things I never even intended to fight. Maybe the command pet calls it back?
2. Crystal frags: I was using crystal frags. I am used to weaving in heavy and light attacks to keep my ultimate generating. I would open with a crystal frag and then start a heavy attack. Sometimes the fragment would instead just float next to me and not shoot forward and then disappear after a couple seconds. Other times it would visually disappear then hit as I struck with my heavy attack. My starter weapon was a 2h sword so it would look like my sword was making a small explosion when it hit. Though this was satisfying I don't know if this was working as intended. The crystal frag should have hit long before, I think, I charged up a full heavy attack with a 2 hander.
Thank you for your guidance!