About
Pact of Earthwalking vs
Mystical Attunement: in the end there will be not big difference in total DPS.
I made some parse tests some time ago, and if I remember correctly pet parses around 70 DPS without PoEW, and 186 DPS with PoEW.
I was impressed how the increase is exactly +166% as PoEW feat description says (probably I should be not impressed
).
So it's a gain of 116 DPS (more or less).
This was on guild strawmans if I'm not wrong (but I don't remember exactly).
72,6 Magic Damage is more or less 5% of
my Magic Damage (around 1500 unbuffed).
It's hard to do exact calculations, since they depend on spell magic damage coefficients and a lot of other stuffs, but these numbers suggests that the gain from pet and from the +Magic Damage are very similar (116 DPS was pretty near to 5% of my DPS on strawmans).
Leaving number aparts, my true impressions is that there is not big difference among the 2 feats.
I use different specs in T4, and one use Hate Decrease from General tree, and ofc also +Magic Damage (this is my "Hate Decrease" build).
My "Max DPS" spec has PoEW (and few CCs).
Few times I forgot to switch spec in fights where normally I go for max DPS, and I was surprised to see how the build with no PoEW performed almost identical damage (or few more / few less).
In the end, I still have the idea that PoEW build is the real Max DPS build, but in the end I'm not sure how this difference really exists.
Also PET damage has no AoE (dunno if just some splash) so **probably** in multiple target fights the +Magic Damage helps more.
But again, in the end differences are small, and it's not about only Magic Damage vs extra Pet Damage: going general gives hate decrease, or some good stuff for PvP, while going PoEW, the featline adds other useful stuff to get PoEW itself.
Shocklance anyway is not good only in multiple target fights, it's a nice extra insta cast anyway (to use when it stacks 4x or 5x ofc).
Dunno if it helps, just few personal impressions.