Originally Posted by
Corax
In this game, yes. Upgrade yourself, 'cause your pet's gonna sit there doing nothing half the time anyhow.
AH pets are awful, terrible, very bad, no-good tanks. They aren't even good supplemental DPS because, as I mentioned, half the time they don't even engage the target, or they spread their DPS around on whatever last hit you—assuming they cover the distance before the next attack comes. They sure as hell don't pull or hold aggro to any reliable degree. Skeleton will get right in there. Archers can just shoot at a new target, and warriors, though they might have similar non-focused DPS as animal pets, do stun your target automatically for you when their rage bars fill.
I won't even bother playing AH anymore, but I do consider necromancy a fun side build for when I am bored with my main or locked out of xp for it because I need to drum up 88k councils. (Actually I'll play my main even with an xp lock; if more games focused on enjoyable gameplay instead of watching XP bars move, and making them move faster, we'd all be a lot better off. But that is a topic for a very different thread.)