Phoenix skills

Zoe - Heavens Tear

Got the bird and have a question about it.

I've noticed it has a crazy attack speed, which allowed it at level 52 to kill level 82 monsters that I grind on without much trouble, although I do steal agro a lot. I gave it bash as its 4th move however it takes too long to cast and really throws off the crazy DPS the bird puts out with normal hits.

I'm looking for a fast casting high damage skill that isn't flesh ream.

A bit off topic but, did they have to make it sound like a foxwing?

Yourmom - Lost City

Zoe - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Got the bird and have a question about it.

I've noticed it has a crazy attack speed, which allowed it at level 52 to kill level 82 monsters that I grind on without much trouble, although I do steal agro a lot. I gave it bash as its 4th move however it takes too long to cast and really throws off the crazy DPS the bird puts out with normal hits.

I'm looking for a fast casting high damage skill that isn't flesh ream.

A bit off topic but, did they have to make it sound like a foxwing?

Are you really complaining about the dps from the phoenix? Get it up to your level and you'll never be able to steal aggro from it.

Also-pet skills all have the same cast time. You don't have a whole lot of options. Bash-physical, then you have the elemental equivalents, flesh ream for a dot, and then there's the debuff skills.

Fatalvenom - Lost City

My nix at my level holds aggro 100% of the time with or without skill usage. Even when I am full up nuking the target with everything I have.

I usually always use flight when I am leveling grinding as a launching platform for my nix. This keeps it from getting caught on hills a lot (since bird is attacking from sky down). It also keeps me up and off the ground that way things hit me less.

Ownt - Lost City

Fatalvenom - Lost City wrote: »

My nix at my level holds aggro 100% of the time with or without skill usage. Even when I am full up nuking the target with everything I have.

I usually always use flight when I am leveling grinding as a launching platform for my nix. This keeps it from getting caught on hills a lot (since bird is attacking from sky down). It also keeps me up and off the ground that way things hit me less.

You only do half-damage though.

Zoe - Heavens Tear

I was never worried too much about agro I just want a decent pvp skill thats not flesh ream yet does good damage. Sometimes people duel my pets for fun. Level 56 phoenix now.

Sigr - Heavens Tear

Until the phoenix starts getting closer to your level, you will keep pulling aggro.

NecroVaL - Heavens Tear

I find Flesh Ream good... It does decent dmg, and can hold aggro...
I'm fighting abt lvl 50 mobs with my lvl 30 pheonix, and don't have problem in stealing aggro at all.. Well,and I usually press on F1, which is the Venomous Scrub... never use other skill, especially ironwood, as it has higher dmg...

Carebear - Harshlands

Zoe - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I was never worried too much about agro I just want a decent pvp skill thats not flesh ream yet does good damage. Sometimes people duel my pets for fun. Level 56 phoenix now.

Then your options are basically either flesh ream or bash.

Stop pretending to gimp yourself to try and be different.

Or you could go with screamshock (whatever it's called here) just to be annoying.

Zoe - Heavens Tear

Carebear - Harshlands wrote: »

Then your options are basically either flesh ream or bash.

Stop pretending to gimp yourself to try and be different.

Or you could go with screamshock (whatever it's called here) just to be annoying.

I don't see how not using a broken skill hurts me in any way.

Vinat - Sanctuary

lol zoe. i thought you were gonna get flesh ream and put it on your nix to test and see. i still maintain that it's not broken. people for some reason cant comprehend that high attack + bleed = strong bleed. in pvp the damage is reduced. flesh ream's bleed still equates to a little over 1.5 of a normal hit WITH the damage reduction.

also you could always just not use it for pvp. for pve its good. helps to kill **** faster.

Dioica - Sanctuary

Zoe - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I'm looking for a fast casting high damage skill that isn't flesh ream.

Phoenixes do not come with doodoo, do they? In the venomancer guide, I read how you can find this skill in the dragon temple event.

Zoe - Heavens Tear

Its called pounce here and yes the bird starts with it but a move that only works once every 60 seconds and is only useful if the monster is actually stunned is to worthless to even have.

Sabai - Heavens Tear

Hey Zoe,
This might help.
Someone on another thread brought up a debate between bash and roar for the herc, so I tested it on my golem. It does in tests pull agro very well, I can hit a mob for 17000 and it still will roar and get agro back. That's better then bash or ream even at lev 1.
Considering roar is only 150K it would be an excellent choice for leveling a pet or for anyone who draws too much agro from the pet in reg play. Certainly for a tanking skill with a wizard in the party. It only seems to effect the targeted mob, which is too bad for AOE. It is close ranged, so a slow pet will have to get close to cast. It has a 15 sec cool down which helps for AOE (my secondary attack on everything.)

I spent 2.3 million adding bash/ream to the frog, this would have saved me a fortune >< So to anyone leveling a pet you plan to reskill later, add roar it will save you a lot of time and you may even keep it.

This would only be useful for a nix while leveling it, thought it might help for that frustrating time.

Zoe - Heavens Tear

Well its a higher level now and I don't steal agro as easy. I prefer a skill that does damage though.