Veno lures.

I've only seen a veno use tame lure once in my life. I learned about it myself a while back, but rarely use it basically because I hate switching manual on/off over and over.

I prefer to use my pet to lure. I ganerally time it right, so my pet is out and running toward the mob before it can get near me, and for me, it's a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" thing, so I'll probably not try the tame lure...

I only pet lure, and I use it alot when grinding so that I can be become better at it and to be usefull in a squad but also give me a safer distance from other mobs. I tried tame lure once but didn't like it that much, I would only use it if I had to.

Know, but don't use.

3 reasons why tame pet is awfull and I would advise to never use it:
- SLOOOOOW(really using glacial to pull would be faster lol),
- mana consuming...,
- really low range.

Above make it risky in many situations and we have much better option.

If you need to lure something you must tank with a herc, get a zeal genie the higher lvl the better even with awfull stats(primary skills cost less with genie lvl). If you need to pull often and the place requires herc just invest into zeal with high vit/mag at least like 70+ lvl and primary skill.(Highly possible there will be at least 1-2 other ppl with Zeal if you're in squad.)

In any other situations you get any ranged pet or which is also good and I kind of prefer it, fast pet(puppy/kowlin/ninetail) with his skills turned off(normal attack much faster than skill cast), most of the time you can pull back those fast pets before any mob hits them(even if they die they usually hit and they're good only for pulling anyway), you can also get any pet with "tough" which will cut >all< dmg by 50%(maxed) for like 15 seconds - enough to pull anything.

Said all that in most situations, pulling with veno is just a show-off of her pets, I like to pull with my gnome sometimes just to hear stupid comments and fun stuff "Who's the father?", "Your kid got his face after his father for sure." etc..


PS. My little tip for venos which think manual pet control is too hard for them - set pet attack under "Q", eventually pet skills under 1-4, assuming you play using keyboard(wsad) + mouse you should feel much better with manual after you get used to it and good pet control for veno comes always before everything else. Customization and manual FTW >.>

I use pet lure with my cactopod in some cases where bosses are grouped with adds and you can't get too close.

Aside from that, genie lure is what I use most. Tame pet is useful sometimes but if you happen to be one of those venos that levelled it up a bit it does consume a lot of mana (mine is only at level 4 but is an issue). Also, depending on how fast the pulled mob is killed, Tame's cooldown may not be finished. A genie with some points stacked in magic has a pretty good energy regen rate and I find that works best, and faster than waiting for Tame to channel.

i didnt know off it til a short time ago but i never did it and always lure with pet on my veno though she has no herc

i dont use tame lure... i never leveled up my tame skill (because i dont farm rare and any other pet will tame with low hp no matter the skill level) and i think at the lvl it is I only get a range of 10 meters. So no go on that.
Its usually my armored bear with lvl 5 tough that does the pulling for me, or in some cases i'll use a zeal to save some time if i can.

Azura - Lost City wrote: »

You forgot to add the option "I lure with pet, and didn't know about luring with catch-pet, but even though now I know it I wouldn't use it cause the channeling is very long and it consumes a lot of mp."

The channeling is about as long as it takes to stow and resummon your pet; shorter than how long it takes to stow, resummon, and buff a herc.

The mana consumption depends on your tame level. You're actually best off leaving it at level 1, where it only takes 150 mana. At higher levels, this is the same or less than a single attack spell, so pretty much negligible. I leveled mine to 6 back when I didn't know better, so it costs me 900 mana. But I still use it as a backup to my zeal genie, especially if there's a cleric in the squad.

The biggest problem is actually the cast delay. For 1 sec after the mob starts running to attack you, you are frozen during the cast delay, unable to move. Makes it less useful in higher instances, where the mobs run faster.

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XHappyBunnyx - Sanctuary wrote: »

i dont use tame lure... i never leveled up my tame skill (because i dont farm rare and any other pet will tame with low hp no matter the skill level) and i think at the lvl it is I only get a range of 10 meters. So no go on that.

The description is wrong. The range stays the same regardless of level, and seems to be about the same as your attack spells, maybe a little shorter. I've never had problems with getting into aggro range while using it (even before I leveled it). It has an advantage over genie luring in that if you target a far-away mob and hit the skill, your character will auto-run to the maximum range and start casting. With a genie, you get the "target out of range" message and have to more forward a bit and try again. Yeah you could just use an attack skill to get to the right range for a genie. But those have a short channel time. Tame's long channel makes it really easy to abort.