Questions about my petFollow

1. It's class is dog dog, if you are a barbarian. No idea really, pets don't fit any particular class profile. Used to be people would say of mage pets earth is warrior, water is rogue, air is monk, etc. That's all bunk; pets have there own set of characteristics.

2. You can give a summoned pet NO DROP stuff, but it will just eat it and never equip it. You can however give him 2 LORE items, providing you have 2 lore items. ;)

3. There certainly is a maximum amount of damage a pet can do in melee, depends on type of pet and level. I'm sure pets have max stats similar to PC's. It would take extensive testing to determine though.

4. It is assumed that pets have armor slots like a PC does, you can find a mage that can summon all kinds of stuff for almost every slot. It is debatable though as to whether it has 2 slots for wrist, ear, and finger. Most pets will dual wield after a certain level.

5. The pet will ALWAYS equip the weapon with the lowest delay. So it would only change weapons if the weapon you give him has a faster delay than the one you gave him before. This is the only way it decides. So be careful about giving your pet that cool sword with a proc.

They actually DO have classes. They may have different abilities than PC versions of the classes, but they DO have classes. Shammy pets are warriors. Necro pets are mostly warriors, but they do get a Rogue pet in the 50's (IIRC). Mage's pets are exactly what you say they aren't.

Of course you left out the part where you're pet laughs at you and says "Oh come one master! Kunark? I mean come on man that stuff is ancient. Why don't you give me some good stuff from Omens. I work my *** off here to protect your *** and this is all I get?"


Edited, Fri Sep 30 16:23:52 2005 by MentalFrog

There's ways to test such as, if the item has +hp to it, you can see how much damage your pet takes from a nuke before and after equipping it.

As I've mentioned before, charmed pets with a base racial model will visably equip any gear with a graphic so a charmed human pet will visably put on a bronze breastplate but will not show it equipping a piece of Kael quest armor. For all intents, charmed pets are identical to summoned ones so far as what they equip or don't equip (hence killing someone's old charmed pet and fiding Ixi fists and a haste mask on it).

It's not perfect, but there's a lot more evidence that pets won't use No Drop stuff than evidence that they will use it.

How many warriors do you know that cast root? Or monks that cast Stun? Or rogues that cast Cold DD's?

Pets will certainly behave alot like a certain PC class, but I wouldn't call it a PC class. Of course mage pets are weird anyway as they actually cast spells instead of proccing abilites like a necro pet or beastlord pet would.

Anyway call it what you want. In either case the "warrior" shammy pet would equip a non-NO DROP lore magic item for the druid class.

Bah.. I hate that.. I have played on FV from the 3rd month of EQ life. I really thought they were tradeble.

Of course I also think that you can buy things with type 8 slots for 5-10k in the Bazaar. It was funny the time I tried to go back to Bristlebane and use the little wealth I had left behind to buy somethings for a baby necro.. and seems like none of the "starter" items I expect/use were for sale. It was like a different game.

Now I so have to find a Class specific weapon that is not No Trade to try this with.

Edited, Fri Sep 30 18:08:54 2005 by Felicite

Mage pets do proc, not cast. If it was really a cast buffs like NDT wouldn't affect them. However, NDT does affect the proc rate. Parse it sometime, you might be surprised.