I just got clapped by a mage pet combo. It was not fun. The mage didn't even cast on me and I wasn't able to kill the steel armored taur dog while I was life leeching. Shit is broken and cheesy.
taur dogs are kinda insame atm true...imagine being a mage in a dungeon, as soon someone with a dog gets you as a target you are dead 2-3 hits later
most of the time you only don't have only 1 on you ^^ i mean they will surely nerf them but i think the problem with pets is the overall design right now.
overall i think pets are a fun addition to the game and there are counters and it's kinda better for melees. also pets should be strong but different to what it is now.... a lot of the issues come from that the original idea of beast mastery being way way to make pets strong is kinda useless and not working mostly.
BM would take aim to make the skills work and it would not be this 1 click and forget killing machines. also like with risen pets which are easier to maintain by a lot, you don't have to care about focus, just fill up the carcass you need and run home with enough for 10 pets with 1 time being there ... they should be minor pets besides the tupilak overall as it basically gives you access to all the good pets for 100 skillpoints while being a BM would take you a few hundred + a few hundred from crafting skills on top. dunno if they would at least make pets like deal half dmg on players with the exception of pet skills it would at least be somewhat better but atm BM skills basically do the same dmg as standard attacks most of the time so why use em? ^^