Comparision of petsFollow

GA looks badaaa (he gets a cape and spikey armor, cant get much better than that). Plus, he can tank really well as long as he has a Cleric Resist buff on him at all times. Badi is ugly, but can also tank greatly, although you have to heal it rather than the GA healing itself. Efreeti is pretty good, being able to quad and cast, and even take some damage. Djinn deals great damage, almost like having another wizard in your group, but cant take much damage at all. Hydro, IMO, is my favorite. It's different from many other magicians (if you like being unique). Plus it can heal you and your group, although if your group has a healer it sucks. At least you can use it to somewhat solo and you can definitly use it to PL.

Just wanted to touch on a couple things said about RSD.

1 - RSD cannot tank any melee mob white or higher for ****. Don't believe me? Find a 60 Necro at TFGs ask them to have RSD solo a white without pacting RSD at all. It'll have 1-2 bubs left. It sure as hell isn't going to be able to do 2 consecutively without any healing. Even with 5 pacts up, you'll barely be able to keep up and with the recast time for HT and lifetap drastically reduced it kills much much slower.

2 - RSD isn't going to be "solo'ing" anything on IoD without pacts or without the Nec themselves tanking.

3 - Last I checked, PoD normals, Dead Hills and Envar mobs can be killed with ANY pet just as effectively as RSD, especially on PoD where RSD's proc is completely resisted by almost everything.

4 - LOL at RSD w/o WoB killing anything in LS or SE except for bats. Last I checked 2k damage shield per quad + Crits and normal quads from mobs eats up 6k hitpoints in about 1 - 1.5 melee rounds.

After all the nerfs, RSD really isn't anything special except against LBs.

As for the Tinker pet, it sucks. Yeah it's immune to AR/PR/DR but so what? Any pet can be immune to all elements with a resist buff. It's never going to do enough damage to hold aggro or to kill much of anything before normal melee damage is going to kill it (it's only lvl 50 after all and cannot be obtained until 60).





Edited, Mon Aug 1 01:36:44 2005 by Muniel

Exactly why nec pets should never be nerfed, because the strength of the necromancer relies on the pet. Unless they plan on making DoT's stackable a pet is really the only good damage a nec does.

But i dont want to start a nerf argument.

yeah that is crap. They changed things from pc and they ended up being worse.

I fully understand the crappy nukes that necs get, but if they are supposed to be the masters of disease and poison, then why dont they have decent proccing daggers and stackable DoTs?

So you decided to forgo Transmuter or Metabolist for a level 50 pet that will quad for 24 and crit every 2 minutes or so for 515?

I was replying to people saying that the Tinker pet is one of the top pets. It by far is not.

The reason I said it doesn't hold enough aggro to tank is because the sole reason why it would be any good is because of it's immunity to 3 elements. What good is that immunity if it isn't taking the spells? (i.e. holding aggro)

It is on par with a Shaman's Primal Spirit. OBVIOUSLY it's better then nothing, but to say it's a top pet or even a good one is incorrect. It WAS okay before they decided to change resist path clerics.

So if you really think that extra 600 damage or so per mob is really going to help you, more power to ya. I've been a Tinker, the pet sucks, I guess you'll get to make that mistake too.


Edited, Tue Aug 2 01:32:49 2005 by Muniel

you know there will always be a great debate on what pet is best. I been playing this game for over 2 and half years now and from what I have learned from observation and owning a 60 lich is every pet more or less has a purpose for different mobs and situations. Buffs and diferences in mobs make it dificult to determine which is the best pet overall. I think there are great pets for different mobs, since they all have different atributes. I hate to burst some peoples bubbles but since the 2 nerfs that have occurred on the necro pets in the last 6 to 8 months or so they kinda take hits like crap. I used to be able to solo 3 white/yellow/red eyes at eg with my lich before the pet nerf that took place 4 months ago or so. Now I can handle one mob, and if 2 were to hit my pet It gets owned and or I have to tank. I am not complaining about the nerf on my pet, I am just stating the devs put in place an obvious balance or saw it was needed to make the necro pets weak. As for going to IOD or POD after the nerf it is very doable to solo, but It isn't as easy. I used to be able to talk on the phone and watch a movie and solo there while I play. Now I have to pay attention, which doesn't bother me. I think there is a bad stigma that most people that play the pet class are lazy, I must agree with that stigma since alot of them are children of the pet pl or afk grping etc. Well hopefully I don't get blasted for my opinion. Last thing I was going to say a charmed ranging rhino seems to be imo the best damage/defensive pet, but in a way I don't count that one cause only druids, bards, and encanters can get those by charming. I am mostly saying every pet is good at something when looking at the store bought ones not the charmed ones.

A few things, you have the item qst that makes you 2 in a few seconds. You also have to to earn the money to buy the spell, which if you skip the first qst will make you lvl 2.

I will say this again, a nec starts with a dot, cast it on a mob and walk away. Cast on the next mob, and after about 5 kills you collect the loot. lvl 4-5 is easy this way and you should have the parts needed from animals for the 3 and 4 qsts.

I am just trying to figure out my cms points allowance for everything i will need to be a good Wildling.Wanted to see if buy ing the charm cms was worth it and if I would be able to afford it with everything for wildling.