Runes of Magic US / AU

Since a short while several people (whole thread here, also here, here) have reported a strange thing. The problem (as always) is that maybe they are wrong and they are seeing something different that what they think they see... So I'll describe it here and the two questions are: (1) has anyone here seen something similar; (2) any explanations other than some sort of exploit?

What people are reporting (I'll use an example from the last link) is the following pattern:
* they hit someone ("A") in SW by e.g. 30k per crit hit; in practice "A" is invincible;
* they kill "A"'s pet (no wd, a regular pet);
* without the pet they start hitting 90k-110k per crit hit (which actually was expected considering how "A" and the reporter were geared);
* "A" gets killed fast now;
* "A" goes out of the SW;
* when "A" joins back again the same happens: as long as his pet is there, there is no way to hit him hard;
* there are _no_ other visible buffs that are wearing out at the same time when the pet got killed.

Another example, a different class being hit: with pet 30k/crit; without - 90k per crit.

It's a repeated pattern and people see the change immediately after killing the pet. But it is strange anyway:
* "A" with the pet does not have enormous amount of HP - it does not seem to be a stamina buff; might be dex, might be directly pdef (or crit def?) (other players report mages hitting a few times harder with pet - might be enormous amount of int?);
* still: I can't wrap my head around it; when I look at the dmg formula, I cannot imagine how dmg could possibly change by a factor of 3 (unless pdeff was extremely low in the first place, which is not the case; and even then - what pet would give a factor of 3???); (by they way: I thought crit just adds a fixed factor; but could it be that for crit dmg a factor 3 reduction with a pet is actually possible?)

The pattern is repeated and frankly many people start loosing interest in SW slowly - what's the point in getting best gear, learning your class etc. if someone in mediocre gear and skill can just come and you can do no more than to pat him gently... And this slowly explodes - now people think of bugged pets whenever they see something strange...

The suggestion was that if GW/RW cannot find and block the reason for such situations, SW would be more balanced if pets were removed from SW altogether (pity that some people would loose their legal buffs, but what is happening is not acceptable).

The second thing (AGAIN!) is that the item preview of another player really should also show their statistics, just as it shows them for yourself. One screenshot would answer all doubts right away (in this case: if e.g. a player had extra 20k intel. or dex with pet and these stats would drop immediately after pet gets killed we would not be guessing anymore...). This is a repeated request with all the "SW cheat" threads: please, please, please: let us see what statistics other players have. There are so many situations that would get clarified right away...

Well, when merging TP stacks, but XP not -> I don't think you can easily overcome the limit of 3 merges per day for leveling. Miller's Cheese cake would be an explenation, indeed.

BUT: the problem with this idea is that every kind of pets gives stamina, right? So should you have a pet lvl 500 then besides dex, int or whatever, you would still get tons of hp. This would be the first thing people would notice, and it is not reported by the guys in the above links.

That's why it still seems like just one attribute of the pet is different (say, dexterity increased 100 times) and not "normal" leveling...

(PS: and if you can get lvl 500 Franken-pet via Miller's Cheese cake - maybe pets indeed should be removed from SW? Not to mention what such a (legal!) Franken-pet will do to you in instances... Does not seem fair, imho... Maybe pets' level should simply get capped? I don't know...)