So in my guild we have a couple animists, we were doing some testing, He was 40 verdant, and I respecced to 49 verdant, so he was 40+12 and I was 49+11, we both have 200 intel and + 50 focus to all spell lines, I have a higher dps staff and better quality. using the highest pbaoe spell (lvl 48) I am doing about 100 less dmg than he is with the lvl 39 pbaoe when sharing the same ground target so our pets are in the exact same loc.