Like most pets in this game, they all underperform. Not enough passive nodes for them. Their AI is still horrible. Their attacks lack aoe and are laughlable (and you can't see their damage numbers!!).

Take Thundercracking for example, the Mage idea is cool but they need their own Spells. The protective spell is very hard to use. It doesn't seem to improve their survival and I still don't know what it does as the rune description doesn't explain. Their projectile does not follow our passives. Why is that? I picked Piercing and yet Thundercracking's projectile does not benefit from it.

Please please please. Improve all the pets. I don't even bother with the skeletons. They are made of papers...