Use their healing abilities regularly, heals them and you.

You can preform heavy attacks to force your clannfear to target that enemy to keep them close, and on PC I know there's a keybind you can use to force them to either attack any target you aim at or to come back to you. Using the deadric prey skill also makes them target a particular enemy and as robwolf666 suggested the clannfear's heal skill heals them as well.

I main a sorc and play solo where I can and use just the clannfear when using a bow, since the clannfear itself has an aggro-drawing move and distracts bosses and such very well. You can direct pets/companions to focus on one enemy or withdraw back to you using L2+R2+ either R3 to send or L3 to withdraw (Y+Left/Right click on kbm). If you play on PC, there's a great addon called Pet Health that adds a little health bar for sorc pets; extremely handy in keeping them alive. Empowered Ward affects pets, which that addon will show, too. I also use Echoing Vigor as a good way to keep them healed. I rarely have to use the pets' own healing moves to heal them.

The_Titan_Tim wrote: »

I looked at your account and saw that you play Xbox One like me, pets are pretty great once you learn how to use their commands and on Xbox it’s extremely easy, here they are.

Heavy attack an enemy, your pets attack that enemy.

Click both of your sticks in and press RT to make your pets initiate a fight, or to attack an enemy at a distance.

Click both of your sticks in and press LT to make your pets disengage,

If your pet is walking inside an AoE, you can call them back, or have them attack a different target by using those commands. Companions follow the same rules.

As far as healing is concerned, I think your best bet is to be active with your commands and try to prevent the damage.

Hope this was helpful! 😁

Thanks big time. I didn't know any of this!

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Sorc pets are immune to all damage in instanced group PvE content like dungeons and trials. The only places they can die are overland and PvP and solo arenas. Where are you seeing them die and need to resummon? World bosses?

Where did you see that? I haven't paid enough attention, but was certain they have died in dungeons.

FlopsyPrince wrote: »

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Sorc pets are immune to all damage in instanced group PvE content like dungeons and trials. The only places they can die are overland and PvP and solo arenas. Where are you seeing them die and need to resummon? World bosses?

Where did you see that? I haven't paid enough attention, but was certain they have died in dungeons.

That was introduced back in 2018 with Murkmire (patch 4.2.5):

Combat pets will now take 0 damage while in a Dungeon, Trial, or Group Arena.

There may be some mechanics that cause your pets to disappear (like the final boss in Mazzatun when all your abilities are replaced by statue-hitting things, and a few other occasions), but they won't die because of regular damage.

How to command them was already explained. Especially curse (daedric pray) is nice because it also boosts all pet damage by 45% and does a good chunk of damage on its explosion. Literally a must have skill if you play with pets.

If you don't need the health scaling heal (about 1/3 of your health) of the clanfear replace him with the volatile familiar, because the clannfear has an taunt and will always draw aggro, it hapens less often with other pets. Also the volatile familiar does more damage (especially when activated it does good AOE damage) and can stun (might be handy for solo play).

If you are running only one Pet and don't need any heal then better switch him out for the tormentor because it does the most (single target) damage of all of them (even without activation) plus it's ranged and doesn't have to run around and will also draw less often aggro.