Even so, the fact that it's an item and not the pet itself makes me feel that the item could be effectively replaced with a counterpart that's either not as fancy in terms of how it does something (IE, use the weapon spells that exist rather than whatever the special item is) or not as compact (IE, give the DKs gauntlets if the sword's protection to hands is causing some error, or full armor, or whatever)
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