Cash is King
Grandmaster
Most metas are equivalent to a 7x dragon (or WW) in pvp - this is already pretty huge if you know how to use it. Any PK going into a 1v1 with a tamer is taking a huge risk - usually hoping the tamer doesn't know how to pvp. If the tamer is even half decent at pvp, the PK is probably going to die or have to run for his life.
Not true unless dragons/ww's are useless in pvp also, in which case yes they're equivalent. I have a level 7 meta with bloody/magma/qs all maxxed plus nox lvl 5. It can do hundreds of points in damage in seconds to the toughest monsters in the game. But it does less damage than a trained hellcat against other players.
This morning I died to a pk with a dp katana while I was onscreen with my pet saying all guard while trying to heal myself (ran outta cures ) When I died my pet was 20% health. The pk sat there and slowly killed my meta without running away/healing meaning that he could stand there and sustain the fight no problem. I'm sorry but that shit is ******** when you consider a guy on a horse with a sword fighting a dragon 10x bigger and 100x stronger wins a fight with ease.
The nerfing of pets doing damage against other players is to the point where having a meta is useless for protection. A tamer is already more defenseless than most other templates besides maybe crafters. My eval/med aren't gm and I have no resist so I take a beating if I'm getting attacked by mages. Any dexxer going at a mage with no armor will win easily unless I run fast enough.
Bottom line is could use some tweaking - not an overhaul and not too much to be overpowered - but tweaking. My pet should do SOMETHING instead of stand there when a pk comes up an attacks me. It should be able to throw some spells and do standard melee damage like all other very strong monsters in the game do against players.
Best case scenario would be if "all guard" worked to have them attack to protect but "all kill" would remain the same in terms of nerfing so that people don't openly use tamers in pvp to fight, but can have metas for defense. Not sure if that's possible but that would achieve the goal of making the meta somewhat useful to protect and not be whored in pvp. Doubt this can be done and doubt anything will change but thought I'd at least put in my 2 cents on the subject because it bothers me enough to take 5 minutes out of my day to write this rant