I think wizard pets should be a luxury and in fact should only get pets that do less damage than a Taoists pets, CrystalSpider being tamable is a joke, plus they already have some of the hardest hitting spells in game.
Hard thing to balance really, EW or Proxu or whoever the high MC wiz are have no problem playing, cause theyve poured months of their life into their char. Where as lower level, or less kitted wizards struggle to do anything other than TU an archer.
Balance issue comes in where if you make pets too strong to help the lower levels, then when the higher levels get them along with thier Level3 spells and crazy MC, is overpowered.
Maybe an idea would be to create a level bracket where you can only tame pets within 5 levels of your own level. Would be alot easier to balance making specific pets for specific levels.
The probem here i dont think is the pets strength, its the effort and time it takes to get some that are any good. A warrior can log on and within 2minutes be potted and in KS killing it. A Taoist can log on and within 2 minutes be in KS killing it, or RME or whatever, a sin can do same with a wider variety of bosses, an archer im not sure about, dont really know anything about the class tbh. But a wiz has to get to fox, rt around to find isolated KekTals, slap it down, tame it without it dying, repeat this 4 more times, go to WT lobby or trapse around SV or rt to ST 4th for bugbats to level them, then your set, best time i think i personally did all this in was 30minutes.
Then factor in that these pets have a mind of their own and walk all over the place when attacking (So you need a big clearance to kill a boss), aswell as the times you may die trying to tame them and lose what youve tamed, aswell as when a warrior 2 hits you and you lose them all, or even if you tt/rt, they stay and get killed anyway, then add in that the only place i personally found theyre useful is IWT, which is one of the busiest places for hunting traffic on the game, all becomes a little soul destroying lol.
Dont get me wrong, wizards have their place, especially in group hunting and clearing mobs, eshock is one of the best skills in game, I hunt with guild instead of solo now cause its too much hard work for the reward i would get, just trying to make the game a better experience for a solo or low level wizard. Or one that isnt in a top 5 guild to get spoon fed.
Cant decide if im just moaning but hope you get my point.