Pets die so Quickly
i used a Devour with tunneling + EB or Wk in pvp with Timber shouts or Hs traited while its tunneled you can remove its condis it also avoids attacks while actively attacking , it maybe a weaker pet compaired to those that are always out or always attacking but its Garrenteed survival for the pet so you don’t have to invest beyond normal utilitiy skills.
its a clear way to get the pet to avoid unwanted extra damage.
if you use soilder runes with timber and EB it’ll move condis to the pet which can’t be hit by other attacks while tunneling and the shouts still effect the pet so it’ll remove the condis as they get Transfered by EB.
the use of a devourer is better at close range so its perfect for Gs quickdraw combat or SB + gs Remorsless condi ranger hilt bash>f2 devour spray (5 poisons+ volly poisons Dual shotgun) with the shouts you can run two shouts+Eb and still have 2 Utility empty + entangle and still have access to Signet of the wild through the marksman line in place of skirmishing.
doing this do means you can take any gear set up you’d like or weapons you’d like without the pet Comprimise and still run a effective build all that is required is Wilderness , and beastmastery and you can work around that if your a condi user by using skirmishing for sword traits or Quickdraw to cover the loss.
Carrion Devourer is pretty nice at times for the poison field and they can stay alive a long time as well as KB which is nice when you have one on swap and are being attacked in melee.