A well built pet eat Lich Lords and such in 3 chomps.
I refer to things that are strong enough to damage a pet.
And we refer to strength in numbers, when there's 5 Lich Lords hitting your pet that is 15 chomps, and a lot more incoming damage with 60% cold damage. Not uncommon in a spawn or in Doom. Besides, when tanking a Dark Father for example, that's zero chomps on Lich Lords...
Krampus is only for a month.
Which is why someone who returns these past weeks (obviously not meaning Laura here) and lacks the time to build several pets perfectly might want to go with a general purpose pet that is not too weak on resists.
I been doing Krampus without a pet death with my Hiryu that has 45 cold resist.
We have had very different experiences last year, when our Lesser Hiryu with 45 cold repeatedly bit the dust. When Minions spawn too often things can get hectic and prevent healing too long. Then you'll be happy with the decent cold resists. Haven't had any trouble with the Fire Beetle with decent all round resists this year.
Oh wait. We have Cus that have >80 cold resist to use on those things.
Nice! Taking a pet with 50% Cold attack, Krampus' strongest resist, effective! Sure enough, it should get you looting rights, and it is a defensive approach with more comfort.
I take the one with 30s cold and Poison resist to Mel and Medusa. We do those a lot on LS.
That is all nice, but the fact you (nearly) always seem to play in big groups on LS gives it a very different situation to tamers without that support. We are not saying it can't be done, just that it is easier to get messy when sh*t hits the fan.
Bosses with those nasty Auras that yall fear
We don't fear any of those bosses, we did them on Greater Dragons regularly so with the uber pets now it only gets easier. But if you want to give an objective, rounded advice for GENERAL PURPOSE PETS we feel you should take into account some of these points.
I play in Eodon too much to not have poison at 80.
And that is why one should take specialised pets there, OR General Purpose pets with decent overall resists.
Like I said. I bet no one is willing to buy these messed up resist horses,
Although the Cold is a little low, they will have their use. But we never buy pets, prefer to Lore and Tame ourselves. And also we play on Europa, not LS heh.