Hi good morning, I've run some test with the fire beetle.... and thought I would help ya out.. You can add bush , but you have to trick it on them by adding a move like N. Strike or feint... Sadly , they did a hot fix where the A.I. of the pet will no longer use bush moves if you do it this way.... but it will get the parry bonus... because fire beetle start with 500 int you can only max its stats 678str 150 dex 500 int... The only way to make the str 700 is lower the dex , and ya don't want to do that as it cheats ya out of a extra swing every 1.5 sec( ya really want it to have 150 stam and dex they give ya an extra swing every 1.5 sec).. Ive found that with fire bugs the old armor ignore, rune corruption is your higher single target spec... if you want you can even make a very nice aoe spec one if you add the Moves in this order .. Goo, armor ignore, rune... Hope this helps ,mate... feel free to ask if ya have anymore questions.. =^-^=