Backup Battle Pet

Back up tanks aren't worth the pet bag space or leveling time. If you fail, just reset the boss and start again.

As Vitenka said, it really depends on what you want your backup pet to do.

The cuddly pup and tabby plumdrop are basically slightly less squishy kowlins which do a bit less damage (tabby is between the pup and kowlin in terms of stats (except speed, it's the slowest out of the 3)). The pup, tabby, and kowlin are also pretty fast and the damage they do isn't bad either. All 3 are a bit too squishy for my tastes though (even the pup).

A shaodu makes a great backup tank but is severely lacking in damage. The shaodu is my pet of choice and as long as you teach it bash and keep bash and flesh ream leveled then you shouldn't have many issues with stealing aggro. You already have a tank pet though so unless you want to replace it, stay away from a shaodu. =/

Moving onto the pets that aren't rare, some of the higher level wovles come with some pretty nice skills. I can't remember off the top of my head though since I eventually ended up trashing them in favor of the more generic pets.b:surrender The wolves are, overall, well-rounded pets which don't excel in any areas but also don't have any glaring weaknesses. There are 4 different 'families' of wolves; each have their own growth charts so a higher level wolf can have better stats in some areas than a lower level wolf of a different family.

The benefits of an eldergoth marksman have been debated to death so I won't even go there but, needless to say, it does come in very useful in certain situations.

The scorpions (and apparently the dark wanderers now) are great for DPS. You can either load the pets with damage skills (bash, flesh ream, and the elemental bashes) to maximize their damage or you can give them debuff skills (pierce, howl, and threaten) to help your squad (also, shriek is damn useful if you can get the timing right).

I personally believe "backup" to be something of a superfluous role. Let's say you have an Herc, a Walker simply isn't going to cut it as a replacement. Chances are you're better off using hood to res. The opposite scenario (having the Herc as backup) would be wasteful and unefficient. Yes, the exceptional veno will have an Herc with blessing...

If what you need is just a pet that you can summon fast to jump back into action then certainly any pet will do and you're better off having a specialist, like Tweakz' beloved Eldergoth.

Having said that, if you do feel the need to have some sort of backup try to get a pet that can fill in for a couple of roles. A walker can handle both the jobs of tank and dps for instance, so if you use other pets primarily for those roles it would certainly make a good backup.

The Guardian Wolf (slightly better stats than the Lupin) should make a better backup than the Pup because ressilience is more likely to be useful in an emergency than damage. They can both be used for pulling.

Mitties - Dreamweaver wrote: »

@tweakz I suppose you have a better plan?

what I think teaks meant was, if your pet died on the boss, most likely your backup pet will die even faster. (unless you have 2 hercs, and the backup herc has Roar)

So, brumble up, revive your pet, and send it back at the boss and pray. Good chance is you will get killed before your pet regains aggro, unless it has Roar. As you get killed, it resets the boss anyway.

So what tweaks was saying is skip the part where you loose experience or use up a angel and just run away until boss resets, than get your pet revived and try again.

Exception to this would be if the boss has less than 50k life left, than there is a good a chance you may be able to survive a couple of hits and last long enough to kill it.

In that case, really any pet will do. At bosses a specific set of pets is preferable but for normal (or elite) mobs any pet with 500+ loyalty and at your level is sufficient. Get a guardian wolf, they look badass.b:sin

How many times does your pet die and where does this happen the most in instanced areas or in the open world?What lvl is your pet heal at?The only time my herc died is when it or I let it get to close to world boss the one in swamps.

What pet did you have before the Glacial Walker and how did it work out for you?

I wouldn't be that harsh on yourself afterall it is just a game anyway atleast you know what you were doing wrong.you want to pay attention to your radar in instanced areas and never let your pet fight to many mobs in the open world.I do hope you keep its loyalty past 70% and use a tome of retribution flame so you don't have to feed it all the time.

I don't think you need a back up just be more carefull it is like me I still have my C-Mag in my bag but never use it and sits at lvl 47 .My Veno is 54 with Herc. being the same lvl.I never use my C-Mag it is why I don't need G-Walker.

Actually any tome will suffice, they will all keep your pet fed. If it dies you will still need to feed it to get it's loyalty back up as normal but you won't need to constantly feed it every 5 min. I just recently bought a Christmas tome for 700000 on HL but prices do vary. Hope this helps.

A tome really comes in handy for a veno. Get one if you have the money to buy one, it's worth it in the long run, because you won't be having to feed your pet just because it gets hungry. 1 more extra inventory space in your bag as well :O

By using tome . .
At last the pet loyalty won't lowered because their hungry. (only by died)

Once before i am also think its better to just give them pure water.
But after click pure water shortcut for thousand times, i just use tome.
Yay, i don't have to click that pure water icon every 5 minute anymore. b:bye

Vitenka - Dreamweaver wrote: »

For normal pets - no, a tome probably isn't worth it.

The legendary pets have special dietary needs - and there it becomes worth it much more quickly.

These wins !! b:thanks
Buy tome now !!