Best magic defense pet

hellraisorjethrove

What's the best magic pet except phoenix and herc?
Everybody uses a frog but on ecatomb I saw that an oddfoot had better magic defense.

Lithandrys - Heavens Tear

I have never owned a frog, so I can't give an opinion on how good they are. But the following pets work well too.

Antelopes have fairly good mdef. Lowest tameable are lvl 30 Antelope Pups with the following stats:
Life
3724
Physical Attack
177 - 216
Magic Attack
248 - 303
Physical Defense
633
Magic Defense
Metal: 783
Wood: 783
Water: 1273
Fire: 783
Earth: 457

Comparable to that, there is the rare Windwalking Piggy, tameable at lvl 30, with stats:
Life
3724
Physical Attack
177 - 216
Magic Attack
248 - 303
Physical Defense
457
Magic Defense
Metal: 783
Wood: 783
Water: 783
Fire: 783
Earth: 783

Some also recommend the Guardian Wolf, tameable at lvl 45, with the following stats:
Life
7573
Physical Attack
282 - 344
Magic Attack
394 - 482
Physical Defense
956
Magic Defense
Metal: 1923
Wood: 1183
Water: 1183
Fire: 690
Earth: 1183

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Peritia - Lost City

hellraisorjethrove wrote: »

What's the best magic pet except phoenix and herc?
Everybody uses a frog but on ecatomb I saw that an oddfoot had better magic defense.

Of the pets with Lv.90 stats available on ecatomb, the Antelope Pup has the second best M.Defence. Rankings:

#1: Phoenix
#2: Antelope Pup
#3: Prickly Oddfoot Cub
#4: Frogling
#5: Guardian Wolf

From what I recall, Carapests are pretty popular too (albeit hideous). I don't know their Lv.90 M.Def though, and thus can't include them in the ranking above.

Kristiona - Heavens Tear

Dodon Laronist is another good magic pet tank.

kristiona

Succubae - Dreamweaver

I'm currently making a spreadsheet (almost finished) to be able to compare and sort the pets.

I've found that the 10 best Magic tanks at lvl 90 (considering HP and armor ONLY) are:
1 - Shaodu Cub (lvl 20, rare)
2 - Windwalking Piggy (lvl 30, rare)
3 - Frogling (lvl 9, rare)
4 - Astral Beetle (Hept-, Pent-, Quadr-) (lvl 2)
5 - Rhinodrahe (Billabong, Boondock, Plainswalker) (lvl 7)
6 - Carapest Terror (lvl 19)
7 - Qingfu (Emerald, Jaden, Verdant) (lvl 1)
8 - Guardian Wolf (lvl 45)
9 - Oddfoot (Pup, Pup Lancer, Prickly Pup) (lvl 4)
10 - Antelope Pup (lvl 30)

I've used the following formula to compute a "Mdef score" :

HP / ( 1 - "%damage reduction of Mdef" )

with :

%damage reduction of Mdef = Mdef / ( Mdef + 40 * Lvl )

Lvl being the level of the pet and the mob who'se hitting it.

This does not take into account the HP regen, which is more a little bonus rather than a real stat.

EDIT : The Armored Bear (lvl 80, rare) is actually rank 0, I forgot it !
Of course the Phoenix and The Hercule would be -2 and -1...

LhRag - Sanctuary

personally i would suggest one of the oddfoot pups
they are nice mdef and they are cute

Sibyl - Heavens Tear

I love my diabolic jester, he's a level 30 version of the carapest terror. Though, if you do go with a carapest, I'd suggest getting roar, bash, or some other aggro skill for it because I have a habit of stealing the aggro from him from time to time.

LloydAsplund - Sanctuary

Shaodu cubs should be one of the best alternatives to a rock (if you dont have a legendary pet). Pure magic tanks such as the carapest terror and the frog are not as great because they generally have lower phy. defence (and sometimes less hp). This is bad because most bosses/mobs use physical attacks at close combat and rarely using magic attacks. thus, making pure magic tanks pretty worthless. Therefore, I would recommend a shaodu cub, one of the best all-around pets.