Leveling Pets?

Tsenlu - Sanctuary

For all of you really game savvy and super smart people out there who play as the Venomancer class I would like to know if you would share your vast experience and tell me where to level my pet so that it is not consistently 5 to 8 levels below me.

Remember the snowmen?
That was great!
It took me about an hour to level my pet 5 levels killing snowmen.
At that time I could level all of my pets except for the aquatic pets to my actual level.
Killing mobs is extremely pitiful experience for pets especially for aquatic pets.
Granted I don't spend all of my time on a single character so my Venomancer's pets are well below her own level.
I do spend quite a bit of money on the game but I just don't have something like $200 dollars to spend on materials to make a battle pet.
That is just crazy!
If someone can't tell me a better way to level my pets could we at least get a cash shop item to do it?
I know no other class is affected by this situation but it is a real problem for me and I suspect most Venomancers.
You know, for Venomancers the pets are our primary weapons.

Angel_Spawn - Sanctuary

Cube room 4 takes a bit of luck to get there though.

LenieClarke - Heavens Tear

for land pets, take them out grinding with you, or go to cube of fate room #4.

for air pets, take them out grinding with you --- even on land mobs, if you can stand the glitching --- or go to the staunch worms by raging tides.

for water pets... just give up, that's what the rest of us do.

Brigid - Harshlands

The preferred method for leveling a ground pet is the Cube of Fate, room 4. It's filled with level 150 mobs with 10 HP, so each one will give the maximum possible XP per kill to your pets. As for getting there, Dice Tickets are dirt cheap right now because of the Mysterious Chip sale. Just keep trying until you roll a 3.

For air pets, the Staunch Worms outside Raging Tide serve much the same function, as they're level 100 with 100 HP. Take longer though, as they're immune to elemental damage.

Mauntille - Heavens Tear

What they said.

For air pets, Staunch Worms work best at 50+ for a nix and 60-70+ for other pets. Before those levels, you're better off grinding on foxwings, dragons, and vipons. Post 100 the mq bats tend to be better.

But also, look at how many pets you have. You don't need a whole lot of them: tank, dd, puller/ranged, air, and water. If you have those, you've got everything covered. Levelling pets gets exponentially harder at endgame. Pick a couple and stick with them. More than that and it becomes too much of a pain to level.

PW already has a Mrs. Zoologist, we don't all need to become one. b:cute

Tsenlu - Sanctuary

Well thanks for the information but PW really needs to do something about that situation.
Yeah, I tried the staunch worms and they work pretty good for flying pets but so far I can't figure out how to get into room 4 in the cube.
Like I said before, pets are a Venomancers primary weapon.
Without them a Venomancer is a really weak and pretty worthless character.
Even in fox form they are pretty worthless without the pet.
Talk about game imbalance!
See how long you last against a Barbarian in tiger form without your pet.
So please PW staff, please see what you can do about the pet leveling situation.
Maybe more pet experience from regular mobs is the answer.
Pleeeeeease

sangodoc

FYI, I added the pet leveling recommendations given here, along with the pet EXP leveling requirements, to the Leveling Pets section of the Guide to Taming and Raising Pets article in the wiki.

Leveling non-water pets isn't too hard, and that article links to the Cube of Fate article, which explains how to get to Room 4 in the Cube. Still, I wouldn't mind them adding something to level water pets on.

Annalyse - Heavens Tear

What we need is some sort of pet exp cubes in cash shop and maybe for dragon points, that we can feed our pets like pet food. b:dirty

OH and maybe they should make pet hyper stones. MMmmm.

But I've tried suggestion box a few times, they don't read that stuff anyway. Too bad... they'd make a bunch of money.

Sanada_X - Dreamweaver

what i wonder is why is it that no matter what lvl the pet is or how high the mob's lvl is the pet always gets only 15 xp. and why doesn't it ever get affected during 2x xp events? i'm trying to lvl up my phoenix on staunch worms and am falling asleep. why not increase the xp amount like adding 1xp for each lvl a mob is higher than the pet or something? i'm gonna die of boredom

ZAPATON - Sanctuary

Sanada_X - Dreamweaver wrote: »

what i wonder is why is it that no matter what lvl the pet is or how high the mob's lvl is the pet always gets only 15 xp. and why doesn't it ever get affected during 2x xp events? i'm trying to lvl up my phoenix on staunch worms and am falling asleep. why not increase the xp amount like adding 1xp for each lvl a mob is higher than the pet or something? i'm gonna die of boredom

Because 15 exp is the max the pet can get per kill and its easy enough with cube + staunch worms as it is now.

Also, last post before yours was over 3 months ago... b:bye

krisnda

Closed for necro.