New Everquest Merc pets

[hayward6]

Has anyone else tried out the new MERC pets? They are simply amazing, and I think we can borrow some of the functionality. I thought this was relevant to what we're trying to do with EQOffline and we could share ideas here.

Here's some things I noticed while I was using a Tier 5 Healer on live.

1. When summoned it buffed both me and my pet, as well as itself and then medded when not needed.
2. If either me or my pet started to lose health, it would heal us and return to medding.
3. It was treated as a pet and didn't agro anything as I moved invisable through a zone.
4. It can be suspended, and have it's status changed with a small window similar to the pet window.

It was real nice to not have to do anything once it was summoned, and it kept my pet and myself healed real well.