Originally Posted by
Kuni Zyrekai
But that's the thing, it's not entirely worthless. There ARE fights where you can benefit from freeze, be it from a CC standpoint or a shatter standpoint. Just like not every fight needs an AOE, or a pet tank, or a dispel, or an interrupt, or a raid buff covered many times over. Is it rarely used? Sure, but so are a lot of the pet benefits. By definition, it does do something other than DPS, just like other pets. It provides a ranged root.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like some neat interaction with the elemental, but let's not kid ourselves. Freeze every 25 seconds isn't really engaging interaction. Water jet was horribly broken in the implementation we saw it; I'm not sure it would be able to be salvaged without realistically making it "push button, recieve proc".