Beetle Report (43)

im surprised that the lvl 2 beetle had better stats all around than the lvl 1... no much for the theory that lower lvl same class pets have better stats than higher tamed ones b:surrenderb:sadb:cry

by the way can u tell me which of the lvl 1 qingfu are better or do they have the same stats, i mean the ones from lost, etherblade, and plume.

Oishasan - Sanctuary wrote: »

also working on a level 4 turtle (43)

You probably mean a level 5 turtle? (Or can you tell me where I can find level 4s?)

Yes! We need unique-ness. Everybody has bunnies, golems, and foxwings. But there are plenty of other good pets out there! I think perhaps I'll train a heptastral beetle or something. I'll train my Long horned Molten Carapest I just bought, and post how that goes. Maybe train one of the purple newbie Lynxuses as well.

Oishasan - Sanctuary wrote: »

Golems are extremely weak against magic, I use them to level my pets up on since I can 1-shot them (orchid village). Call it irony.

When u tame a mob, the pet version has different stats than the mob version. I sometimes see people trying to rip-off others by trying to sell them Darkbreed Wolfkin (I think that's roughly the exact name :P), an elite mob outside of the Beastkin FB19 cave at a very high price. Those wolves may be very tough as enemy mobs, but they are not that different from other pet wolves once u tame them and make them into a pets. If fact, you're probably better off with your starter wolf than the darkbreed. Those golems that you can 1-shot are earth mobs, which are weak against your wood attacks. I love to lvl on them too, them and other earth mobs like gnomes and such. Pets seem to loose there elemental attributes once tamed too. I never tested it out but I never noticed my pets being weaker to a particular elemental attack.

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I tried out the aggro skill "roar" on my golem recently. Just did fb59 tonight with some guildies. One of the archers, who was about 15 lvls higher than the fb stole aggro from the tank on a boss. I used roar(lvl 1) and it generated enough hate that the boss ignored both the archer and the barb that was trying to steal back aggro (and everyone else) and attacked my golem instead. So I'm pretty happy with roar atm. you might want to try it out if you're worried about ur tank-pet loosing aggro.

I've noticed that one nice pet I have is the diabolic jester. It's a higher leveled version of the other carapests like in the human fb19 (I probably would have gone with one of those but at lvl 40 I had never done a human fb, lol) (It comes at lvl 30 on a cliff outside of the City of the Lost in the Dragon Wilderness). It's great against magic mobs, and it has a high evade so mobs miss it quite often. I have a golem as well, and I still love him to death. His size and bulkiness does get annoying at times, but I can deal with it. The only real problem I see with my carapest is that it has trouble holding an aggo, but I'll probably get him bash or some other skill to help him with that. Also, just because it's more of a magic tank doesn't mean it can't take physical attacks too, I just have to heal him a bit more to deal with such attacks. Anyway, it's a great pet, if I remember I'll right down his stats and post them. b:pleased

It is a great little magic tank-- my diabolic jester lvl 61's stats are:
HP- 1649
Physical Resist- 4609
Damage- 1000
Physical Attack- 1023
Magic Resist- 5762
Evade- 1000

These are the stats for my lvl 61 crystaline magmite:
HP- 1992
Physical Resist- 5892
Damage- 919
Physical Attack- 1658
Magic Resist- 3928
Evade- 681

So, my magmite usually hits enemies its own level about 1k per hit, while my diabolic jester hits enemies its own level about 600 pet hit. He still does really well against magic mobs though.

Is there any chance that anyone who's leveling a beetle has a Tuskmoor in the same level range? I'm awfully curious as to how the two compare at even levels. I haven't been able to test it myself personally but based on bobbeh's post here it appears that Tuskmoors are underrated tank pets as well.

BTW, if you want the Heptastral Beetle (that doesn't grow with level) but don't want to pay for bash, the Nonastral Beetle King looks like it uses the same growth chart. It starts at level 9, so its stats are a few points worse, but it comes with bash 2 so will save you about half a million coin. It's also a very pretty deep blue color, not the faded azure/aquamarine of the Hep Beetle.

ok, here's the update on my Verdant Qingfu (Ziggy)'s stats after 5 levels (75):

HP: 2336 >>> 2499
Attack: 1393 >>> 1564
Accuracy: 1438 >>> 1538
Evasion: 798 >>> 854
Phy. Defense: 6025 >>> 6458
Mag. Defense: 5098 >>> 5465
Speed: still at 6.3 meters/sec

anyone has a lvl 75 golem they would be willing to compare stats with?