[Altruist]

Pet hate seems to be more related to your dps than anything else. Early on I used that weak orc axe thing for level 5 I think BST. I used it til about level 20 ish, this allowed me to keep my axe reasonably capped and control the flow of the fight. However, til you get release your usually going to just throw pets at things and heel and wait for it to die, or just try to chain and bite the 30%.

When you get release the game changes. You can start using a weapon, and you really want to, since you will need 100TP to get a finishing WS off. Of course you probably don't want to melee til the final pet for multi pet jobs. At least in my experience if I melee on my first pet I'll never get the mob off of me on the next.