So I took out my PVE pet sorc for the first time since the patch dropped to see what kind of damage the new changes to pet damage scaling brought, and to be honest, I couldn't notice an appreciable difference in damage output. I never parsed him post-patch, but just based on feel, he was still melting everything in front of him more or less as quickly as he was before. That said, I lack the transmute crystals right now to swap traits to do an apples-to-apples comparison with the set I was planning to use in place of Crafty Alfiqi (Destruction Mastery), so I'm wondering if others have played around with their pet sorc builds, and if so, were they able to increase their damage outputs by adding more spell damage to their builds?
My build currently runs 60K magika and around 3300 Spell Damage self-buffed. Not sure if it would be worthwhile to drop around 5k magika or so to increase spell damage by around 400 (Destruction mastery, all infused traits on jewelry)