Comparision of petsFollow

how do the different pets of EQ compare/contrast at lvl 60.

*takin dmg
*giving dmg
*best
*worst
*etc etc.

for example:

Shammans "pet path" pet or which ever is best at 60
Mages multiple mc pets
Encs mc pet (not charmed pets)
Necs pet (w/e is at lvl 60 idk bout them)
Tinkers mc pet

pls list ne hlpful info on them TYVM!

Actually at this point, not being able to finish the 60 epics, pet path sucks. You get a pet at 60 that you will replace the pet with.

The store bought cm upgraded Efreet is better than getting Efreeti Lord, they do the same damage, Lord has a little more HP/ AC.

Djinn Visier does great damage for a Magician, but annoying on grinds due to AoEs. (Primary Aero Secondary Pyro is highly played because of this)

Ghilian Noble is useless, except for PLing.

Badi Elder is only good for soloing. Badi and Badi Elder both have max resists.

Red Swarming Death is the best all around.

Tinker clockwork pet would probally come in second place as the best right behind RSD. (Great to farm with a resist path tinker cleric.)

Grand Animation is decent, nothing spectacular. Spellbinders pets are becoming harder to charm.

Druid and Bard charms pets are good for added damage and great for soloing. Nothing comparible to the above pets though.

...The troll cm Alligator friend is horrible. Doesn't attack and the mods are over-priced. :)

Mages earth pets make best tanking pet, fire pets make decnt dds, can get best nuking air pets and water are only pets that heal you.

enchanters make best pets for pling others, and there charm pets can do decent or good damage depending what you can find

Necromances do good damage but rsd cant tank white or highers for ****(comes close to death/dies everytime i try, damn people whining for nerfs), dont buy undead charms there worthless.

Shaman pet path(at 60) is no good until 60 epics are done because the 60 spell pet is beter then 49 epic pet.

druids can charm animal type pets(not to many great charmable animals)

bards can charm any thing which is good for extra damage but with a shorter duration.



Edited, Sat Jul 30 03:16:17 2005 by SefanaPPO

You dont need any of the promancy cms, if you are not going pyromancer, the store bought at 60 cant be improved.

The gnome lvl 1 clockwork is just as bad, 20 cms for 5 pot and a follower. I agree the most useless though is the first necro pet, the skeleton dog. Starting with the dot spell I just cast it on a mob and go to the next one and cast it on that one. Keep walking from one to the other with stoping to loot every 5 or so mobs. You get from 2- 5 easy and likly to get your kill proof for lvl 3 and the animal parts needed for qst 4.

WoW thx all, for all the great info. very helpful! :) and the info bout Tinker makes me sooo happy lol goin tinker myself. looking to lvl a petter currently got a nec/mage/enc and i like shamans still gotta decide which to stick with.

Actually dont need any AR pet did all the work i never got hit.
In pod i'd walk around and just kill anything that was in front of me as long as there wasnt more then 2 i never died nor did rsd

Dead hill mobs are not normal mobs there way under connned


As for my reply its to this quote




Which is complete BS

and wtf are you doing

You are a complete idiot here. Balance is a good thing, there must be balance. But no one argues that every class needs to do the same thing, they look at what AT's can do, and how it works for the game as a whole. Only an idiot thinks a bard should heal as well as a clr.

The AT's need to be balanced within them selves, first and fore most. All casters should have plus and minuses that make them equal just like all healers, all tankers, and all melees. You look at healers clerics are the best at healing and rezing, sha heal have some powerfull buffs, and debuff, druids heal and damage. They are not all equal, but all can fill in the healer role. Melee's are the same they all do different stuff, but in the end they all add different stuff, and can fill the roles in groups.

Tankers I cant tell how well they are balanced, for the most part they are, with the possibility of defenders being different. If I actually had accurate numbers to compare ac to defense mods it would be easier to tell.

Casters are trickier since pets are more of a factor here then any other class. Alcs and wizzies are the kings of directly attacking a mob. Wizzies and alcs both offer different stuff and I feel they are balanced. Enc are balanced they offer a lot more to the group members then the other casters. Mages I feel are balanced, they have weaker attacks and pets, this balances them with wizzies. I havent played with many necros to tell how well the last pet adjustment made them balanced. But before the last pet adjustment they were way overpowered. By themselves necs were balanced, except for pacts being castable on self, it was just the pets that were over powered.

extra damage is always worth it, but the downfall to the charm is not all areas have animals to charm. If it looks like a bug or swims or slithers you cant charm it. If it has 4 legs then generally speaking you can charm it. It might be one of those cm's like nec pet weps good to get til 55 then worthless.

For the 2 of you I would recomend the charm. It will speed up the kills and give something to take the crit from you or the rogue. I beleive the charm lets you charm up to 8 lvls lower so it has to be a light blue, and has to be a mammal.

oh n back to my orignal post: Shamans....their pets....pls more info on them. how much dmg do they give, any resis, takin dmg, etc. oh n does n e 1 actually know how much the Tinkers pet heal is??? high heal or will i havta constantly heal em???
Thx.

Forgot to mention you can buff your pet which out of all pet casters is the best buffs over all for attack potential.