3 or More Better Lure Options than Kowlin?

Debuff Luring

For all I know, I made this up. I've noticed that it doesn't always take a fast lurer to lure. You can use a good tanker and still get the job done. To be even a better lurer, it could apply a debuff to make the luring safer. Tough is a buff that can make a pet about as resilient as a Hercules for a short period of time. So, we can send in our tanker pet with Tough, have it Bash, Flesh Ream or Normal Hit, then lay on a debuff like Threaten or Slow. The pet has to get a damaging hit in for the lure to be successful, so a fast squishy pet is out of the question.

Better Lurers:

1) Eldergoth Marksman For general all purpose luring, nothing beats a good ranged pet! Reaons already covered here: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=323451

2) Armored Bear If we look at the skills this bear comes with, we can see it was intended as a luring pet. Skills for luring tend to have longer cool downs like the 30 second one for Threaten or 60 second one for Tough. In addition to these skills, it comes with the very rare skill Pounce which has an 80% chance of stunning the enemy target and speeding up your attack rate. This skill if sold alone would run well over 5m on its own! So we can see this bear comes geared for luring with a good strong->bash-threaten routine. It's magic defense is also about 5 levels ahead of the Baby Hercules, and it has a balanced amount of physical defense. It also has a fairly high amount of HP (I believe in the top 10). It's speed isn't shabby either at a starter lvl of 8.5m/s. The bear can take a hit, so 1-2m/s more isn't quite as important.

3) Carapest Terror This family of pets tend to come with the Slow skill which slows down the target mob (*does not work on bosses, and some mobs that resist). They have a super high evasion ranking which compliments their decent HP and highest known magic defense. I suggest this pet as a compliment to the Bear since it will be best practice to clear out the physical mobs first, and use this one for the magic mobs left over.

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Aside from the bear, these are easily obtained pets that require little effort to maintain, while the Kowlins are rare and have run ~1.5m but lately is down to ~1.1m.

The Kowlin's physical defense sucks and it lacks a high evasion to compensate. It's default skills are geared as a support pet which is what you would want that fast and flashy pet for (you know.. pulling it out in a squad). The proponents of the Kowlin cite it's flashy red circle when it attacks as being the signal to unsummon. Because of this signal, it's said to be better for visually impaired or people using small play screens.

I don't believe there is one lure to suit all occasions best. The Eldergoth Marksman is suitable for most or general occasions. I think the Armored Bear with it's high magic / physical defense would be great for a fast physical ranged target like Stygean Quartermaster in FB79.

I don't even consider the Kowlin a luring pet anymore. I used to think it would be great for DWP Legion events, but Marksman has it beat there also with it's ability to hit without moving and it's hardiness. My last hope for it is in lower level FB help as it's size isn't overbearing and it can rush to get aggro off a tabber.

People believe what they want to, and no one wants to think they spent 1.1-1.6m on a pet for luring (because they heard it was the best) when there are better and cheaper luring pets. So, even if I'm totally correct in the Kowlin being unsuitable as a lurer, there will be people who will give their opposing opinions.