Must have non-CS pets (PVE)

Sinsongs - Dreamweaver
Sinsongs - Dreamweaver Posts: 10 Arc User
edited January 2012 in Venomancer
Okay, what pets should you have that are not CS ones for a PVE veno?

I am looking at

Glacier Walker (ground, tank)
Abysmal Turtle (water)

What others should I look into?

A flyer or pure dps?
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  • Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear
    Nowitsawn - Heavens Tear Posts: 4,864 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Here are some pets you can pick from:

    There two are essential:
    Glacial Walker/Magmite - tank / DD in dungeons
    Sawfly/Skatefish - air / DD

    These are optional:
    Abysmal Turtle - water
    Plumpfish - water (if you didn't bother leveling the turtle much)
    Eldergoth Marksman/Sharpshooter - ranged
    Kowlin - lure
    Windwalking Piggy - air / tank
    Nivastok Shieldbearer - looking cool
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  • thumbs
    thumbs Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    The only thing a Kowlin is good for is selling it.
    If you're using a Glacial Walker or Magmite to tank in dungeons: you're wasting your time.
    If you level your Abysmal Turtle you wasted your time .
    There is no need for an Air tank unless you wanna solo the likes of XenoSpace Drake in which case GL!

    One of your most useful pets at 100+ is a cactopod from Eden like an Ethereal Inamorato. An Eldergoth Marksman will allow you to tank some stuff only a Herc or Nix would otherwise. Both cactopod and Marksman are better lurers than a kowlin, and pet luring is practically obsolete.

    Dark Wanderer and Scorpions make good DD pets. Lunar Lupins come with a high level Howl at a level before you could otherwise get it which helps with your hits per kill when solo grinding, and debuffing mag def for squads. I wouldn't recommend keeping or investing in the Lupin for long term though. Use it to see if you'd like Howl on your DD pets.

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  • Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary
    Hazumi_chan - Sanctuary Posts: 1,264 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    I agree with thumbs on getting the dark wanderer or scorpion.
    Ever since I lvld my dark wanderer I hardly find myself using my herc apart from bosses. It deals more damage, so stuff will die before it even reaches you, it's tanky enough for normal mobs and you can learn it some good agro skills :]
    It's also very usefull on bosses if you don't tank because of the DD
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  • Sinsongs - Dreamweaver
    Sinsongs - Dreamweaver Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Well just farmed up a bunch of the eggs, figure I can sell some and keep the ones I need.

    Dark Wanders for the grinder and soon main once I got a decent stash to make things easier leveling (without having to worry about costs)
  • Ipho - Heavens Tear
    Ipho - Heavens Tear Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    dark wanderer is nice :3 for a dd pet i love him. the rocks are slow and bulky looking =.='
  • Aezwen - Archosaur
    Aezwen - Archosaur Posts: 37 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    if you get the wanderer, add skills
    it probably won't hold any mobs with out bash (or similar 8sec atk)
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  • Xainou - Sanctuary
    Xainou - Sanctuary Posts: 5,369 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Aezwen - Archosaur wrote: »
    if you get the wanderer, add skills
    it probably won't hold any mobs with out bash (or similar 8sec atk)

    Level the bash as high as you can. Level 5 is maximum.
    Your pet should be able to hold agro off while you're not high enough to really take it with your nicely refined gears.

    I agree with the people above me: Wanderer for DPS, walker for tank, sawfly for air and plumpfish for water is what I would do o_o
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  • Sinsongs - Dreamweaver
    Sinsongs - Dreamweaver Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    yeah noticed that, where the glacier walker has level 2 in three skills making it better skillwise at least.

    So got to get to the book seller and price bash for the walker, or keep it for looks and use the walker
  • thumbs
    thumbs Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2012
    Xainou - Sanctuary wrote: »
    Level the bash as high as you can. Level 5 is maximum.
    Your pet should be able to hold agro off while you're not high enough to really take it with your nicely refined gears.

    I agree with the people above me: Wanderer for DPS, walker for tank, sawfly for air and plumpfish for water is what I would do o_o

    All applied skills generate aggro. What's most important is how frequently those skills can be triggered. When you get to 100 and start putting on some serious DD: your pet, even a Nix on a [?] isn't going to hold aggro. I've said this in the past when I was 8x and I'll say it now: Howl is one of the best skills you can put on your pet. To beat howl: a cleric has to make themselves vulnerable temporarily. Mystics also have an mdef debuff that's AoE but it's only 20%. Howl is how I soloed Djinn, prepared for boss 2 in FFC, how I beat out L100s in PQ2, and how I went from 3 hit kills to 2. What's more is the legendary pets don't have it. Other venos scoffed at me when I used my Scorpion on PQ2, but they got far less points than me (knowing I had better matk & -ch I used Howl to offset the patk/matk ratio). I kid you not: I pissed a lot of them off and humiliated them.

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