Health is huge on Syl. I prefer to put all of my tanks points in health, and then supplement some agility by focusing on it with my equipment choices. The reason for this is because your mend skill is based on your maximum health. If you can get a pet who takes around 1% of their health in dmg each turn you'll never have to heal any other way, because you can just mend every time it's up and never hit low health. There's no harm in putting some stats in agility (or even str/int if you want to get some extra mitigation and dmg on your pet). I do have some hybrid tanks that work well outside of boss fights, where battles go really fast. Those ones have about half in health and half in their dmg stat.


And Dexterity is going to improve their crits and ability to crit, but normal attacks won't be as strong as if you did all dex. Also, Dex will help both casters and physical. I personally don't use the fire skill tree, so I can't tell you much on that. However, I had a pet who I did the same as you when I started. I assumed "Oh dex that'll be like my thief/sin/rogue pet" and did a wind pet with most of their points in dex. Later I restated them to strength and their overall performance improved. I was wasting a lot of their dmg on overkills since crits are unpredictable.

Not a problem :) I spent a lot of time on a lot of different rpg/mmos, so I totally understand your train of thought there. Glad I could help!