I've noticed that all my pets do better with an offensive focus, including support roles. Water has better shields, light & shadow better healing, etc if they have a strong attack. All strength or int proficiency goes a long way! But also Dex, because a crit doubles healing as well as damage for shadow pets, etc.

Basically, all the special abilities are scaled by how hard the pet can hit. With potions to manage health, evoker and myrmidon gear are best for me (int/str with dex).

But I haven't experimented much with arcanist or ravager gear (mainly because I don't have that much of it). Has anyone tried it out in a party yet? Crits would go way down, but the base damage (and the base healing/shielding/etc) would be enormous!

I was wondering if this was a feasible build, or if the low dex would make things worse. Anyway, thought I'd ask what others have experienced! ^^