This has been changed in the 2.1 patch so that 3 turrets are created at a time....so it's less of a waste now. It has also been changed so that it stacks up to 10 per stack.
The turret can be a bit helpful when questing because of the extra dps on your side. But I don't think it will be any use in PvP though.
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After testing this myself yesterday in Magister's Terrace, yes, they noticably upgraded these. First, they are always lvl70 now. Which is very nice considering it makes them actually able to hit anything. :P Second, the damage seems to have been changed. When I first dropped this it did ~70-80 damage every tick, but in a very narrow cone. Now it seems to be a quite wide cone, but only ~40 damage every second. Still superior though, for heavy AE situations. Third, I can loot these. \o/ I only got 2 Fel Iron Bolts and some grey stuff, still nice to recover parts of the invested materials. All
Just so everyone knows. This is *TERRIBLE* at level 85 for the mat costs. I tried using it on a level 80 Living Blood in Deepholm. Here are the results;
Total Damage Done: 195
DPS: 4.1
Time duration: 47.58secondsIt seems the ''pet'' does not scale with levels sadly. It was continuously shooting fire at the target , but almost every try was a miss. Do not attempt, I spent a chunk of gold to buy the mats / and farmed some for over 50 turrets thinking it was a good idea.
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