I’m trying to score that staff (and its mount) and I’m running into a… rather unexpected issue.
Knowing that mages lost their loved pet (rip), I went in with my Warlock with the idea of using any of the pets to make the traps spawn.
I pulled out my Voidwalker, pulled the boss with a curse to leave the two dogs alive and waited… waited… waited…
15 mins later, the evidence was there: Shannox didn’t cast a single trap. Thinking I missed the cast or the visual, I resetted the boss and tried again, but to no avail. Shannox did cast Hurl Spear, Rageface did eat me multiple times, and not a single trap was used by the boss whatsoever.
Which raises the question… Are the warlock pets not counting as allies anymore for that part of the questline?
Update, as I got this phase today (19/02/2025, 5.30am)… with a weird twist.
It seems that pets such as the Voidwalker doesn’t work, but Guardians (like the druid trees) are considered as a valid target for the traps to be cast. PSA for people trying to do this questline.