I tried KillerGremal's suggestion with the spells without much luck. You can see the deer is trying to cast the spell as it has the casting animation for the spell, in this case fork lightning, but nothing else happens.
So I turned the deer into a purely defensive pet. The primary attack is a heal spell. It also has 4 debuffs and curses it will evoke randomly on the enemy. So probably now a very useful pet as it can take over that role from your combat mages and let them focus on what they are best at, damage dealing attack spells! You can easily untank the mod and change the debuffs into whatever you want as long as they aren't combat spells.
As a bonus here's KillerGremal deer woman? I called her a Nomad as she is more nomadity.
Like KillerGremal said, there's no idea of what GPG were planning for her. She's available as a pet in Eirulan as well, just as a quick way of getting her into the game. As KillerGremal said she has very few animations so has the same problems as the Deer, though she could be made to work the same way if you want to modify her as such.
I tried KillerGremal's suggestion with the spells without much luck. You can see the deer is trying to cast the spell as it has the casting animation for the spell, in this case fork lightning, but nothing else happens.
So I turned the deer into a purely defensive pet. The primary attack is a heal spell. It also has 4 debuffs and curses it will evoke randomly on the enemy. So probably now a very useful pet as it can take over that role from your combat mages and let them focus on what they are best at, damage dealing attack spells! You can easily untank the mod and change the debuffs into whatever you want as long as they aren't combat spells.
http://www.siegetheday.org/~iryan/files/DS2_Mod_Pet_Deer_Alpha_02.ds2res
As a bonus here's KillerGremal deer woman? I called her a Nomad as she is more nomadity.
Like KillerGremal said, there's no idea of what GPG were planning for her. She's available as a pet in Eirulan as well, just as a quick way of getting her into the game. As KillerGremal said she has very few animations so has the same problems as the Deer, though she could be made to work the same way if you want to modify her as such.