Another Living Story...
InB4 ”You just need to manage your pet better”
LGN
It is also true that the miniboss directly after this is made trivial because we have a pet to distract it, so i would say it balances out.
You can get the buff on your pet too if it is killing the little dude as well, then just make sure your pet also runs trough the attunement crystal to receive the buff.
I run through all living story missions using Magi gear, in a Beastmaster build (….sometimes I switch to a rabid trap build, but never zerker/assassin gear). No problems here…
(also, the last few bosses of that area don’t even require you do deal that much damage. Its the mechanics of the fight that count rather than bursting the enemy down in 15 seconds with loads of damage.)
My pet got the protection every single time not only my pet I guarantee that my noncombat mini zuzu got it aswell wich made me giggle a fair bit, that said the last encounter was buggy as hell for me and it took me ages to kill the vortex crystals not sure if it had anything to do with pets or if it was simply buggy though but they wouldn’t take any damage even though I was getting the “fragile boons”
Go figure what happens when you’re a mesmer...
Uhh not only my ranger pet got the sheild buff but all of my necros minions did as well o.O not sure whats wrong on your end. are you using a ranged pet and having it in the kitten end of nowhere when you pop the shield?