Bro that skills you got are actually pretty good as encourage will work as all-aggro, plus it helps DPS a lot in battle. That resurrect skill also useful to me. I hope I got as yours :'3
I am not sure if the closer the pet it the less dmg it will take tho u should use md as md and staff with magic attack set as normal attack have 100℅ accuracy thus more ampr and use of agroo generating skills.
