So many pets to choose from! Help!

HaTorah is right when she said that raising lower lvl pets up are stronger. A couple pets that you should look into getting and keeping lvled are a Magmite and a sawfly. The magmites are good tanks for FB's and the like, and the sawfly is a flying pet, which is good for pvp and air mobs. At a higher lvls you might come across a pet that you like that has better stats, but it's a good idea just to lvl the starting pets until then. ^^ I hope I helped

Once you hit around level 30, if you can't afford to get a frog, get an antelope pup near heaven's tear.

It has great magic resist, and it can heal itself.

Samatia - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Um another question. If you tame a pet with increased attack or defense does that stay after I capture it?

Oh almost forgot. Where do I get hay and when do my pet slots increase?

No, special effects like Sacrificial Assault, or Increased Magic Resistance don't stay on a pet after you tame it.

Hay is a rare drop from certain mobs. Mobs that drop it most often include the lvl 22 rhinodrakes outside west arch, and lvl 30 antelope pups.

You can get more pet slots by either accepting the quest from the Pet Tamer to get a certain number of materials (like 20 hay to increase your # of slots to 3, to increase it to 5, I think you needed like 50 fungus?) which are rare and only drop from certain mobs. Or you can buy a pet cage from the cash shop or from other players (costs around 200k) which expands your pet bag by 1 slot. I think there's a super pet cage that increases it to the max capacity (10) but obviously costs a lot more.

Leolf - Heavens Tear wrote: »

If having pets from low levels makes them strong, does that mean my Jaden Qingfu will be one of the strongest pets at full loyalty?

Technically speaking, yes. However, its stats only correspond to other enemies like it. Now if you are looking for something with high damage, get a level 2 scorpion. Scorpions have some of the highest damage. Compared to other scorpions, the level 2 has the highest attack over all others. If you want high defense, get a level 17-18 magmite. etc. etc.

Although magmites are very popular, I have been training the level 1 quingfu and level 2 beetles from our various lands.
(All pets leveled to 21 so far)
The quingfu grows in size and heals itself,
the level 2 beetle stays small (which is a nice benefit), and has toughness.

Both are far superior in defenses to the golems, (magical is around the same as physical, which both are greater than the golems)
Still testing their damage, accuracy, and evade. They are relatively close, but are starting to distinguish who is who as they grow.
They are having no problem holding aggro if I allow them to grab it.

The level 2 newbie scorpian is also a great pet, as is the wolf. Not so much tanks, but great all around pets. Wolf evades a ton, scorpian has nice mag def. Both are heavy dps.

The lowest level kitten is suprisingly a very good pet in both defenses (phys/mag) and offenses. It's speed it nice too.

Going to be testing a low level rhino soon, to see how he does. And I haven't had time/space to try the sawfly yet, or the undines, tauren, etc..but have them in the waiting room.
Trying to avoid testing anything tamed past level 5-7, preferring to stick to level 1 and 2, seems so far an advantage. But time will tell.

just updating,

I realized my initial plan of giving a tauntable pet skill like 'bash' to my bugs was a cool option (and still is), but at the cost of 300k-750k per skill, ouch..

So went out wandering again, and had a thought, my little blue beetle had a cousin named king of each species, level 3.
and guess what, he has toughness and bash.
So tamed him, and he is even better than the other 2, at level 20, he has the same defenses, but more attack, damage and evade, and a higher regen.
Go figure, only sad part is he doen't stay small, he gets as big as a house.

While in the same area, I ran across a level 4 (maybe 5) turtle, and said, what the heck. leveled him up as well, at 21 he is one sick puppy, well worth keeping up to level for water events, if we ever come across one.

just my 2 cents, but having fun.

Leolf - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Good to know! I can't wait to be a high level, pwning stuff with my Jaden Qingfu b:laugh

The thing is, you won't.

There are reasons why magmites are the most commonly used pet in the game.

Don't forget to upgrade the attacks and other skills at levels 20, 40, 60, etc. My Shaodu cub wasn't doing any damage at level 50, until I upgraded him to level 3 attacks. Expensive, yes, but hey, it was worth it.

Yeah. Even if they do suck, they're our characters, and we have the right to the pets we like. i've found that if I focus on being the best and having the best, caring about nothing but leveling, my gaming life is quite miserable. Hey, is your Veno on heaven's tear? If so, we should duel our bugs some time ^^

Oishasan - Sanctuary wrote: »

buying skills that dont exist is going to be pricey, but thats why i went with the king beetle, he has bash and toughness.
Hasn't lost aggro once yet, and I keep him plenty busy.

Sorry but you haven't even hit the mid-levels yet. Losing aggro is easy even with the light-armor build + magmite.

If you check the 'pet' sites listed in these forums, Quinfu is the number one pet in stats from their listing if given the room to grow. but you'll have to teach her skills.

No. Even at lvl 90 its attack is inferior to magmites. It will not hold aggro. It will not be a good physical tank and its semi-decent magic defense will not make a difference in regular grinding.

You're also trying to persuade peopple to spend 300k on BASH, a skill thats native to the magmites. The level 18 magmite (which is already superior to the Qingfu by default) comes with 2 useful skills FOR free.

The only thing that the Qingfu has on the magmites is the smaller size, and that it's less of a cookie cutter. Thats it.

Yeah. Even if they do suck, they're our characters, and we have the right to the pets we like. i've found that if I focus on being the best and having the best, caring about nothing but leveling, my gaming life is quite miserable.

But at the same time you're misdirecting people. What if people just levelled their Qingfu to lvl 50+ realising that they aren't the WTFPWN alternative magmite? It's all about helping people to make informed decisions.

Just my research, take it or leave it as you want, but here's some of the general "categories" Veno's want pets for & which pets they tend to grab to fill those roles. In the cases of rares i'll try to list upgradeable choices so i'll post something for the most broke Veno to the one's most overflowing wish cash / camping time.

Physical Tank: Magmite (typical mob) > Shoadu Cub (Rare, good mag def too) > Hercules (Legendary, if you're over flowing with cash)

Magical Tank: Antelope (typical mob) > Snow Hare (yes its a rare, but only a 1 hour rare, most can tame it & if you buy they're cheap) > Frogling (Rare)

PvP/Attack ground Pet: Scorpion (typical-starter pet) OR Wolf (typical-starter pet) > Kowlin (R

I'd take off shadou cub from the physical tank category. It doesn't really belong there.

Magic tanks it should be separated into tiers. Shadou cub, frogling and carapest terror are all in tier 1 and should be pretty equal for magic tanking purposes. Antelope pup and oddfoot pup are in tier 2. The snow hare's just for show.

Hi - I only have two spots now, and assume at 17-18 I'll need a magma (14 now).

I have a snaggletooth kitten egg, and am wondering about its performance versus the base wolf I have been using?

Wolf so far keeps aggro great, though it does not have bash. In the long run, would kitten maybe be better for soloing, less dps maybe but better aggro management and a little higher defense?

Thanks. Love the pet system so far.

not hating on or attacking the beetles, just pointing out that just because it can be caught @ lvl 1 does not mean it will pwn all the pets that u catch later on. If we're trying to urge you to get the best and only the best, we'd be telling you to throw all beetles and magmites to the wind and get hercules and phoenix instead. Level 30 is still too early to truly see the differences between pets. As I said, different kinds of pets grow differently. When my veno was in her 20s I was a bit disappointed with my magmite, cuz for all the glowing praises that other players shower upon it, I didn't find it all that different from my other pets (a sawfly and a frog). Now that I'm in my 50s and all my pets have about the same lvl Bash, it's quite impossible to miss the differences between them. There is definitely a good reason why so many players chose the magmite for their physical tank.

When it comes to pve grinding, really just about any pet will do. When you are soloing instance dungeons or luring or tanking bosses with a pet or participating in pvp however, that's when the differences between pets really show.

There may not be any lvl 105 venos in PWI, but the game started in China several years ago and has expanded to many Asian countries since. A lot of the players here on PWI already played on the English servers of the Malaysian version (a.k.a PW MY-EN), which was release more than a year ago if I remember correctly, and a lot of players have access to information about this game from other versions of PW.

There are a lot of venos out there that choose to use beetles and crabs instead of magmites in the usual grind, but some of them still keep a magmite around for times of special needs. If you want to experiment then have fun with it, you won't be hopelessly gimped just because you don't use a magmite. But if u truly want to compare beetles with magmites, u should leveled them both for a while longer.

PS: the qingfu and the lvl 3 beetle belong to different beetle "groups" for lack of a better term, so they will grow differently. There are also several different groups of wolves and wildcats.