A little confused about tanking

LNyrii - Heavens Tear
LNyrii - Heavens Tear Posts: 5 Arc User
edited March 2009 in Venomancer
I know I may sound like a complete noob but meh I dont care, I just want to understand this lol. b:surrender

I get the main gist of Tanking, at the moment I have a crabby which I use as my all rounder pet, for grinding and pulling. I never got a golem as I hated how big they were personally. Now I'm getting to higher lvls, and missing a solid tank on fb's and bosses, as the crabby only seems to tank 50% of the time, its seems to give up and let me take the damage, even with the skill Roar. I tried a Eldergoth, and he just wasnt cutting it either. Ironically my Crabby tanks normal monsters no problem...b:cry

I assume this because I am doing more damage then the crab or eldergoth and thats why the monster comes after me. I assumed once I train up possibly a golem that would change, but I was on a fb yesterday with a veno higher then me lvl wise with a lvl 64 golem. There was a Wiz doing the most damage, and the boss went after him, as the golem wasnt doing as much damage. How do you keep the boss on the golem, for aggro etc? do you use just the skill tough? Is worth it for me to lvl up a golem now, and just keep with the crab?

I have searched around on the forums first, so sorry if been asked before! b:victory
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  • Zoe - Heavens Tear
    Zoe - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,814 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    You need to level up the skills of the pet. I use bash for agro holding and it works just fine. I almost never get agro unless boss is weak to wood and I crit or something.
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  • LNyrii - Heavens Tear
    LNyrii - Heavens Tear Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Yeah I found about those today Makes alot more sense now thank you ^^

    I just got to decide who to invest the skill in to. My crabby is getting better tanking wise, I just went on a TT run and a BM was tanking, and he kept on pinching the tank job lol, and he just tanked Krixxix by himself. His downfall is his hp, he needs two venos to heal him to keep him alive on a boss fight. b:sad


    so looks like I better train a golem for boss fights b:surrender
  • Hasukurobi - Heavens Tear
    Hasukurobi - Heavens Tear Posts: 406 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    My Sharptooth Wolf never seems to let me down in the tanking department. He steals aggro even from BM's and Barbs and has only normal attack and level 1 flesh rend. It is all about how much damage they output and his attack stat is much higher than even Golems of similar levels or those Crabs. Though the Crabs look cool.
  • Kristiona - Heavens Tear
    Kristiona - Heavens Tear Posts: 216 Arc User
    edited March 2009
    Up till I got my herc I used the crab from levels 40-68. My question is are you keeping your pets loyalty maxed or close. Also if you don't let your pet establish agro before you start casting on the mob. You will take agro from your pet and the mob will come after you. I prefer to keep my pets loyalties maxed so it gains 150%xp ans does 120% of its damage. If you have questions you can send me a pm and I will try to answer it in game if I am on character name is kristiona spelled just like that all lower case.

    kristiona

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