I dont know if you knew this - but pets dont hit as well against people as they do NPC.

I have always been able to kill mage pets upto yellow con damage shield or not.

The real question is - why bother killing the pet? that just sounds like suicide as while you fight the pet the magician is meditating or casting on you...

In PvP certain things are changed, pets hit a lot more for lower, most of my spells that i use for offensive damage.. correction: all of my offensive spells for players in pvp do 2/3 there normal damage.

IT does sound a good focus and the resulting pet sounds very dangerouse - from experience though when you kill yellow con mage pets without going under half life.... 'every' single mage has then all out nuked me even if agreed nott o blast me before hand - watching there pride and joy getting ripped appart by a shadowknight not even useing half his spells and potention really upsets them /mourn.

I have not dualed the epic pets yet - so cant wait to have my arse handed to me by one, sounds a fun challenge.

Braellar Come and have a go if you think your hard enough elementals!