Dwarf set up - pet leveling!

To go into better detail lemme begin by saying what I have been doing lately. I made 4 new dwarfs, all going to be bounty hunters one day. One of them is 20 now (got it in 1 day, with level 39 baby cougar this was very easy). At 40+ I was thinking of having them level alongside a hatchling or even a wolf. Now I'm not expecting the pet to do a lot, just thought the extra damage they do would help kill mobs faster. Plus I enjoy leveling them.

Now I was thinking of for tattoos at 40+ to be either +5 dex and +4 cons or +4 dex and +5 cons. Now I know a lot of you are thinking something along the lines of "You wont do hardly any damage with -9 strength) I know this, but then again I don't think dwarfs where meant to be dishing out a ton of damage. They are commonly used as meat shields.

Also I'm considering getting both light and heavy armor sets. The idea behind this is if I was duoing with my pet I may go with light for the increase in evasion and everything...expecially if I planned on taking on only one or two mobs at a time. And the heavy armor set would be if I was to go with a group...obviously in a group I would be dealing with a lot of mobs, so having more p.def would be more welcomed in that situation.

Any suggestions? Or think the idea overall is good or bad?

The increase in evasion on light armor is a bad joke.
Dwarves only got one type of armor, and it is not light. Just ignore the other mastery completely.

As for being meat shields... I personally got +4str/-4con tattoo and a BW armor, and even with the -5 con total I am my own meat shield. And with the Strength boost, I am doing some significant damage.

Since I personally decided to go with a baby cougar, and the little cutey cannot deal any damage, I am the one to do the killing, so I need to strength.

Just my 2.000a

Baby Kitten

Yeah light armor is an valid option at 70+ when your way higher lv then the rest of the mayority of the players, then try to use a light armor who give +evasion and preferly an +evasion weapon and if you can an EE with agility buff, if so, you will have about 10-12 more evasion, at 70 you will land on around 125-130 in evasion.

Also really the P.def at this lv is about 50 P.def or os difference on same grade armors ^^ so not realyl a big deal, but yeah at the siege field you most likly going to avoide a lot more now, PvE wise your beter off going heavy and take the hits.