The underlying system of combat is built around area attacks. This is why the majority of base weapon attacks strike multiple targets in the affected area, unlike other games which strike one target – the one you have selected. Our system makes things like positioning and facing far more important and engaging; this also means that the concept of ‘AoE’ is not as easy to distinguish and thus handle in different ways.
That said, we are currently looking at systemic ways to help with player pet and minion survivability.
Please just reduce the pet swap cooldown on dead pets. Currently it goes from 20 seconds to 60 seconds, that’s 3 times the original amount. A very heavy punishment and often there is nothing that could have been done to prevent it.
Once a pet is dead the next pet will also likely die since it has to survive for 60 seconds instead of 20. So it quickly feels like the pet is completely worthless and dead the whole time.
I’d say make it 20 seconds, since it’s the class mechanic after all and all kinds of skills and traits and weapons need a living pet which are all unreliable because of it.
30 seconds might be fine too and maybe even 40, but that’s pushing it. 60s is way too long.
