So,

I am always willing to do things out of the ordinary, push the envelope, find the most unorthodox ways to fight. Find use out of skills most people deem not worthy, useless, etc

(I was one of the 1st(Not the only though, not taking all the credit) to advocate the use of Radiant Magelight to counter Lethal Arrow Spam which has become prevalent in Cyrodiil now over Inner light because of its effectiveness against stealth attacks which most arrow attacks come from)

So today while drinking my coffee before work, it has dawned on me what my new thing to try today will be

Pets in PVP(A complete and total 1st for me)

I know your thinking...Pets are useless, I am thinking the same thing, but I have a very good idea on how they can be used.

1st - Ever notice NPC's and the like have a really stupid stealth detection, well your Pets do too...could be an advantage, a small one of course, Regardless your will benefit from the same stealth detection NPC's do which i find they see much sooner then the players do. this can only be a benefit.

2nd, Pets increase your Health regen by 20%, and the Twilight can heal you when your low on health.

3rd, My Clanfear has a ton of HP...i was looking the other day and its a lot...its actually close to the Greater Storm Atronach in HP..if i remember correctly mine is somewhere over 5k...thats a beast of a tank. You enemy will have to deal him in some manner regardless, if you use BE you can keep distance and kite around. Or use Bound Armor/Thunder Form for sustainability while you and your pet both beat on him.

4th they fixed the Clannfear he now does Tail Swipe Attacks quite frequently that will not only knock players on their rear end, but its an AOE that hits anything in its conal range.

5th - The Daedric Ward Morph Empowered Ward puts a damage shield on you and both of your pets AND increases your pets damage by a whopping 30% at rank 4(This also effects the Storm Atronach Ultimate). Now that Clannfear Tail Swipping is hitting for close to 1k, and he has a whopping damage shield on him that must be busted before one can even begin chipping away at its 5K plus HP.

6th - Remember, 2 ranks of Rebate means you get Magic back everytime a pet dies or is summoned, so from resources perspective, losing a pet isn't as crippling as it would seem to be.

Of course your not going to want your pets out while your stealth. The Clannfear is instant cast though, so you can bring him out in a pinch. Creating some distance then summoning your Twilight would probably best.

Conclusion

I don't know if this work or not, but im darn well going to try it! I'll have to level Empowered Ward tonight hopefully it won't take too long. This could maybe be useful in castle sieges as well, its another body to add to the mix and the Clannfear seems to be a bloody good meatbag! lol


This idea was inspired by a video i watched a few weeks ago . There was a guy on there...his name slips my mind now,I want to say it was Legend guild, don't quote me on that though, that used pets to very great effect making him extremely hard to kill, while forcing his opponent to have to deal with 2 pets + him at the same time. He seemed to do very very well.


The Clannfear can be used not only as a tank, but as a major annoyance. He is still going to have his attention on whomever is attacking you, and with average use of blocking, the Twilight can keep you alive, if the player focuses on killing your Twilight, you will have free reign to beat on him while he trys to do so along with your Clannfear also beating on him. Keeping Empowered Ward up will ensure Scales reflection doesn't kill your Twilight, while making their attacks even more deadly. thus you will get the heals from it and be extremely hard to kill.

If you are ganked by 2-3 people, the 2 pets "Could possibly" provide some help allowing you to perhaps walk away from a fight you would normally lose as even though your pets are not other players, they are going to attack your attackers and may even get in the way of the guy trying to get you from behind. We see folks try to lure players into NPC's at farms, etc all the time when they are outnumbered, etc, well with pets you might as well be walking around with your own NPC's at all times.

I am wondering if pets were ruled out early in the meta game. I think in the right circumstances, they could be extremely useful, and besides, im tired of playing my Sorc the traditional way and want to try something completely off the wall and different.

I know i have said pets are useless in the past, i still think they probably are not that good, but I want to give them a shoot, who knows i may be pleasantly suprised at how good they are...im not one to stealth with them, so thats a non-issue.

Im not worried if its leet or not, i just want to see if its fun!