Heavy WF PvE Capabilities?

PvE is decent, I haven't really done much research since I already knew I wouldn't want magic. You'll lack melee damage for a while until you get melee mastery up to a decent level but once you get there you'll be decent, another agro spawning won't be any trouble especially not with leech.

And to elaborate on what was said earlier, malefic crush is the only aoe available in fox form. Though it may just be my opinion but venos do not have great AoEs any way you look at it. Kind of going back to the whole "jack of all trades, master of nothing" idea.

The only way you'll be gimped for PvE is pet healing. You're not going to be able to solo tt bosses for instance. Normal mob grinding should be fine.

serakano wrote: »

Just found this, quite useful:

http://perfectworld.clanfree.net/compapet.htm

http://www.ecatomb.net/petstat.php

Superior b:victory

The second one (fruit) is cheaper if you can manage to find fruit for 3k a piece or go out and kill for at least some of them.

Much higher and it depends on the price of gold at auction or from other players but for now just to give you an idea I'll say gold costs 100k a piece. With gold at that price a cage would cost 200k plus the additional fee. You need 50 fruit, so with gold at 100k, getting fruit at 4k a piece you will more or less get the same price. While it is pretty rare to find fruit for cheap what with people trying to squeeze impossible amounts of money out of everything it is possible to get a good deal.

For the fungus one I can say for sure it'll be cheaper just to buy a cage unless you can find some fungus for very cheap (if you even find any at all for sale) or kill for a very large amount of what you need.

Also for pets my recommendations are the following:
There are still cases where you'll want a tank that isn't you

-Crystalline Magmite (the best physical tank pet in the game) or if you don't want the magmite which seems to be the case
-Overclocked Mechcrab or however it is (not quite as good, but faster and smaller)
-Bear cub (small, pretty fast, excellent all around tank, hits faster than normal pets, and it gets a stun skill for free)

And for damage though I haven't had any problems in this area so I didn't go too far out of my way

-Petite Sawfly(excellent pk pet I hear, can't guarantee that but it does move fast and hits pretty hard, and there are times that you'll really want an air pet especially if you're on your own)

note:air pets damage is cut slightly against ground and water, some say it's halved but I highly doubt that, I would guess from firsthand experience the cut is more like 1/10th

I am OP btw, dunno why this forum is like this with avatars. >>

I decided to switch servers, so I restarted as a Light armor caster build, and it's like someone suddenly pressed the "Easy" button.
I plan on taking some of the werefox skills after I get my main grinding skills for the caster down, so I can have a bit more flexibility in what I do. I've seen too many WF's lose duels because they tried to cast with the Golem pet out.

I do like the Golem pet for the caster, but it's a bit... slow... I sometimes fear the monster is going to come tear me apart before the damn thing even reacts.

My main point of posting this is though, I had a question about calculating my stats.

Should I include bonuses from gear into my stats whenever I am calculating them? I've refrained from doing that during these early levels when my gear is not constant, but there's going to come a point where I'm going to be using a small pool of gear I'm guessing.

So if I reach level 20 and for my stats I have
str - 23
agi - 22 + 1 from a gear

and I ideally wanted both of them to be 24 for the purpose of wearing light armor, do I want to have 24+1 agi or 23+1 agi?

(I don't really know much of the advanced gears, so I don't know what bonuses they give, so if I do need to take gear into account, pointers to some good gear to have in mind would be much appreciated.)

Thank you.

HgS - Sanctuary wrote: »

I am OP btw, dunno why this forum is like this with avatars. >>

I decided to switch servers, so I restarted as a Light armor caster build, and it's like someone suddenly pressed the "Easy" button.
I plan on taking some of the werefox skills after I get my main grinding skills for the caster down, so I can have a bit more flexibility in what I do. I've seen too many WF's lose duels because they tried to cast with the Golem pet out.

I do like the Golem pet for the caster, but it's a bit... slow... I sometimes fear the monster is going to come tear me apart before the damn thing even reacts.

My main point of posting this is though, I had a question about calculating my stats.

Should I include bonuses from gear into my stats whenever I am calculating them? I've refrained from doing that during these early levels when my gear is not constant, but there's going to come a point where I'm going to be using a small pool of gear I'm guessing.

So if I reach level 20 and for my stats I have
str - 23
agi - 22 + 1 from a gear

and I ideally wanted both of them to be 24 for the purpose of wearing light armor, do I want to have 24+1 agi or 23+1 agi?

(I don't really know much of the advanced gears, so I don't know what bonuses they give, so if I do need to take gear into account, pointers to some good gear to have in mind would be much appreciated.)

Thank you.

You want to usually calculate your stats from your base, not the bonuses you get from armor. Otherwise, you have to be really aware of everything you're wearing when you go to replace it. You don't want to end up switching out some piece of armor and then have another one be impossible to use by not reaching the requirements.

Once you get to higher levels maybe it won't be as much of a problem. I'm 77, with 81 base strength, but I think its about 88 (not at a computer I can get ingame on) with all my equips. I could probably go a couple levels now without putting any points into str, but its probably not worth the hassle if I need to replace a few items at once later.

I figured I'd keep posting in this thread if I had questions rather than clutter up the forum,

I've noticed that certain 'rare' pets seem to be in amazing demand. These being things like the snow hare, the pig, the kitten, the frog, and the small bear.
However, I haven't seen anyone recommending people actually use these except the frog as a possible magic tank and the bear for its useful default skill set.

Are these just novelty pets or would they indeed be more useful than the golem I am currently using?

Just noticed everyone seems to want these...

Also, does swimming mastery actually do anything? I noted that it seemed to in a few guides that I read, however in-game, the skill has everything listed as N/A.

Yourmom - Lost City wrote: »

I think swimming mastery does something...not really sure. Its not a lot of SP and you never have to worry about it after its level 1, so might as well put a point in it.

Not anymore, at least not for venos, I took a look at the one my veno has it now says N/A or no effect or something to that extent. On my barb though it still has the description and it feels like I'm swimming pretty fast.

Yourmom - Lost City wrote: »

In your late 60s and early 70s, if you finish out your levels grinding rather than doing fb or just dailies, you'll have more fungus than you know what to do with.

Also a bit of a question here, I figure it fits since it ties into one of the questions the poster later asked. Where at? So far I haven't gotten any, though what I was doing wasn't exactly grinding.

HgS - Sanctuary wrote: »

I am OP btw, dunno why this forum is like this with avatars. >>

I decided to switch servers, so I restarted as a Light armor caster build, and it's like someone suddenly pressed the "Easy" button.
I plan on taking some of the werefox skills after I get my main grinding skills for the caster down, so I can have a bit more flexibility in what I do. I've seen too many WF's lose duels because they tried to cast with the Golem pet out.

I do like the Golem pet for the caster, but it's a bit... slow... I sometimes fear the monster is going to come tear me apart before the damn thing even reacts.

My main point of posting this is though, I had a question about calculating my stats.

Should I include bonuses from gear into my stats whenever I am calculating them? I've refrained from doing that during these early levels when my gear is not constant, but there's going to come a point where I'm going to be using a small pool of gear I'm guessing.

So if I reach level 20 and for my stats I have
str - 23
agi - 22 + 1 from a gear

and I ideally wanted both of them to be 24 for the purpose of wearing light armor, do I want to have 24+1 agi or 23+1 agi?

(I don't really know much of the advanced gears, so I don't know what bonuses they give, so if I do need to take gear into account, pointers to some good gear to have in mind would be much appreciated.)

Thank you.

build sounds fine just don't add vit or can just reset it later

Don't understand what do you mean they lose because they cast while golem is out? golem won't stop them being able to attack in any way

jump or run little circles (careful of pulling more mobs) if you need time for golem to pull a mob of you

well if they are running from your pet then the pet is doing its job you just kill them while they are trying to kite it and as for something getting in their face, thats what hood is for use that and they'll soon run the other way b:chuckle