Yes
not really, actually it’s a decent combo, you use Aiming to increase the “hit box” of monsters, then use Rush Dog, ordering your pet to attack an specific location, so if a lot of “monster circles” are inside the designated area, rush dog is gonna hit all the monsters in the area until a max of 10 target according to the skill, at max lvl rush dog has a skill factor of 200%x5, and as far as I know is the only skill that uses the pet stats, instead of your character stats (if I’m wrong please someone correct me), pets can have 2 weapon slots, but the good thing is that you can put 2 2h weapons on them so you can give a fairly decent atk for the skill, you can also use your pet as complementary damage if you give them some AEO atk ratio, they’re slot to attack, but they can hit as if they’re another character, is not a good damage but is damage at least. Another good thing about it is mixing Aiming with Growling, you just need Growling at least lvl 1, and your pet is gonna debuff monster around it by making them unable to attack, that’s when you use your falconer attacks and your 3rd class attacks, just like in the video some comments above
Yes, actually the falcon it barely counts as a pet, you can’t even access the falcon’s UI if you have a pet