Buffed pet vs single spirit

BM only affects base pet damage, the same as a weapon attribute does.

Damage is (26 (SoH) + 20 (GDW)) * 1.33 (pet multiplier) = 61 damage, plus whatever natural damage you have due to BM . At 25% IAS that equates to about 41 DPS. 10 BM bumps that up to 88 damage and 59 DPS if my math is right.

Pain @ 14 channel does 2.5 DPS . Assuming you meant 14 communing, Pain does 14 DPS.

Pets are definitely more glitchy than spirits. You can depend on spirits to hit their expected DPS most of the battle. With pets you will be lucky to hit 3/4ths to 1/2 the expected DPS with all the running around the pet has to do in addition to the general delay of uselessness it has.

Pet armor/health depends only on level and evolution. Generally pets are fairly hardy because they have a -33% damage modifier, but this also serves to dissuade enemies from attacking them as often as they might so they aren't exactly 'helping' to tank things. The fact that your skills are disabled when they die and that party-wide prot/heal don't work on pets also means that trying to get them to tank damage probably isn't a good idea anyway. I believe the discussion in GC was about having four A/R dagger spamming sins with pets. two SoH maintainers and ERs to bond everyone (6 each, same as Urgoz/Deep) with Prot Bond and maintain GDW on all 8 physicals.

Whether or not there is any point in attempting it, is what I wanted to find out. By glitchy, do you simply mean the pet freezes alot before finding the next target? If people call spam and constantly attack aswell, shouldn't it be fine?

Question is basically this:

Will it benefit the team? If yes, how?

though pet mechanics are far from perfect, there are many people out there that don't know HOW to run any kind of pet build, so you will see a lot of people saying it will probably be worthless. Unless they have fixed the pet AI, pet builds tend to be weaker than they are in theory.

Experienced human players can exert better control over their pets through the pet controls. I doubt heroes control their pets very well.

it's still without a pet. you need charm of comfort animal in that bar to actually have a pet with you. Oh, that would be slot 8. meh.

Incase it changes anything, this was the proposed bar to be run on human sins only:

A/R
1. Jagged
2.FoxFangs
3.DBlossom
4.Melandru's Resilence
5.Ascan
6.Crit Eye
7.Never Rampage Alone
8.Comfort Animal

They already kill fast without pets, but would this slow them down or speed it up? I doubt pets are going to be that effective without the pve skills. Heroes use comfort animal to heal their pets and tend to waste their energy. There is also the skills disablement when pets die.

On the plus side, pets may work better with a melee character to help mitigate its inferior pathing AI.

...By glitchy, do you simply mean the pet freezes alot before finding the next target? ... They don't freeze, nor are they glitchy. It takes time for them to run to the next target and start attacking (just as for anyone else), also pet-attacks land on their next hit and can not be queud.

With melee-masters (rangers) pets generally work just fine.

At 0 BM comfort animal has little healing and pet death results in a 10 second blackout.

Also keep in mind that with 4 melee BM's you might be having up to eight bodies hit by AoE.