Quote Originally Posted by Spiroglyph View Post
Sustain doesn't exists anymore - @Manuel Bravo

I haven't played SCH all that much in SB, but from what I have seen is that, the one thing that WILL kill fairies are cleaves. As for aoes, I actually feel they don't take nearly as much damage from them as they did back in HW (to compensate for lack of sustain maybe).

I feel like the times when my fairy did die it was to dumb stuff like cleaves, so they kinda seem to take either negligible damage or they get rekt in one hit. Which isn't TOO bad now that summon takes normal cast time, it's just kinda dumb because you don't have time to think if the damage fairy took is worth dissipating it for, because it's already dead. :P

*waiting for any scholar to come into thread, because I am not actually sure what I'm talking about. Please correct me if I'm wrong*
Sustain is back, but it shouldn't be necessary that often.

You're right, cleaves murder pets since they enjoy no damage reduction on them. Raid-wide AoEs deal negligible damage, though. Most environmental effects like DoT floors do nothing.

Tank busters with an AoE component like Exdeath's Thunder will kill pets standing too close to the tank.

Generally speaking, pets are fine as long as they aren't getting cleaved or accidentally sharing damage with the tank.