Fast pet lvling in cube

Don't think you can "macro" it, but i mean...why would you? it's already easy to lvl the pet in that room...wanting to do it afk is just a sign of lazyness b:chuckle


<they should make it pk enabled tho, more fun> b:pleased

I find tab-venomous-tab-send pet goes fastest, with the occasional AOE on naturally occuring groups. Rounding up a group for AOEing is just inviting someone else to AOE the group you rounded up, and takes longer.

1: Get a bow and some arrows
2: Put pet on defend and turn skills off
3: select monster
4: Normal attack
5: Repeat from step 3

Monster will aggro you and start to chase. Once it attacks you, pet kills it. Meanwhile you've already switched to another one to repeat the cycle. If you're a LA veno this is even better as you can use a stronger bow and just flat out kill the monsters like this.

truekossy wrote: »

1: Get a bow and some arrows
2: Put pet on defend and turn skills off
3: select monster
4: Normal attack
5: Repeat from step 3

Monster will aggro you and start to chase. Once it attacks you, pet kills it. Meanwhile you've already switched to another one to repeat the cycle. If you're a LA veno this is even better as you can use a stronger bow and just flat out kill the monsters like this.

Why use a bow when you can just Venomous? b:victory

Ms_HopToIt - Sanctuary wrote: »

Because using venomous scarab takes up mana. If you use bows and arrows you don't have to worry about soul transfusing or using natures grace.

Seriously? If you've got even a mediocre amount of talent as a veno, you don't need to worry about mana. Give your genie Second Wind, then Soul Transfusion --> Second Wind. You'll never need to pot again.

Mitties - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Seriously? If you've got even a mediocre amount of talent as a veno, you don't need to worry about mana. Give your genie Second Wind, then Soul Transfusion --> Second Wind. You'll never need to pot again.

My genie has that second wind tyvm, and i know when to soul tranfuse, and i didnt use pots. but thats not the point. The point is I spent 3 days in the cube lvling my herc from lvl 1 - 75. I did it using venomous scarab, and when i got bored of holding it down, I would either use noxious gas to aoe them, or run around around and punch them down. I only did that when nature's grace or metabolic boost was in cooldown. Obviously you don't know how fast you run out of mana spamming skills in there, especially if you arent a pure mage. With 5.6k mana at lvl 84, (don't remember what it was 9 lvls ago) I could run out of mana in a matter of 5 minutes by constantly using tab, venomous scarab, tab, venomous scarab, etc. Also, using a lvl 1 bow with 10k arrows would take less time than using venomous scarab, since normal attacks don't take up channeling and casting time.

That's what i did when i ran out of mana, either punched in human form or foxform. But atm I have 84 base dex (Im Light armor atm, havent added in dex since lvl 80 cause ive decided to restat at lvl 90) But at lvl 75 I could equip a lvl 2x bow without added dex stats, and probably a lvl 3x bow if i had added dex stats. That's why it would be faster for me to use a bow, but if you only have 5 dex and can only use a lvl 1 bow, i could see how spamming venomous scarab might be better considering that you would probably "miss" alot.

Mitties - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Well, it's not a matter of missing or not. With the bow, your damage will be, at most, half that of VS. Which, considering the bow is less than double the spell's speed, more than makes up for the slower casting speed. Especially if you have -chan gear.

Except that your goal with the bow isn't to kill. Merely to aggro the monsters. The pet on defend does the killing for you and once things have started, you get to the point where you have a steady line of monsters being killed by the pet as you draw in more to you. Because bows don't suffer from channel/cast delays, you won't have to worry about mobility and will be killing faster overall.

And, again, if you happen to be a LA veno, the process is sped up even more by the fact that you'd be able to use a bow stronger than the level 1 bow and can flat-out kill the monsters with your attacks, regardless of whether or not they crit, instead of simply gaining aggro so that your pet can kill for you.

I think the risk of dying in the mice bashing room is minimal, the mobs have 10hp each and die like, well, mice. I haven't tried using a bow but I think even the lowest level bow will 1-shot them. What I have tried is to hit the mobs with my sword, this didn't work too well since my dex (and accuracy) is rock bottom and I miss to much. It felt as if it would take longer than chanelling plume and you have to run more. In the end I used tab and plume and, while chanelling, tab and alt-1, so the pet and I killed simultaneously. Oh, and noxious gas when 2 or more stood together, of course.

-Even- if you are AA, it does not matter what build you are. The lowest bow -will- one shot the mob, Tab and normal attack, tab and normal attack. At most all you have to do is press 2 keys, yes putting pet on defend will get rid of the stragglers before they hit you.

"Veno skill" isn't even related to this, leveling your pets in cube doesn't require any skill at all >_>

Mitties - Dreamweaver wrote: »

But, if you damage the monster more, it dies more quickly at the hands of your pet. And you don't want to get swamped with too many mobs at once, or you'll --- oh yeah --- die.

As others have said, you just want to kill as quickly as possible, and the bow lets you do that. The main constraint on kill rate in that room isn't the damage you do. It's how quickly you can aggro the tombstones. And the bow lets you do that the quickest.

Ignasia - Heavens Tear wrote: »

ok thanks for all the responses. i tried punching and dragging a grp and then using earthquake. I will most deff try the bow. and see which works better for me. thanks again everyone i really appreciate it b:laughb:victory

Ok, I've been keeping my genie tricks secret but I don't really have any pets I need to level in the Cube anymore so I'll reveal them.

Earthquake is a good AOE kill skill. You want to use an alternate genie with level 1 Earthquake though. The level 1 version of the skill takes less energy (so you can use it more frequently), but should still do enough damage to kill the tombstones (they have 10 hp I think). Or maybe it was level 2. The skill has a radius of 10 meters.

If you're using a bow with a pet on defend, Tangling Mire is another option. At level 1 it has the same energy cost as Earthquake. It doesn't do damage, but it does aggro the nearby tombstones into attacking you (so your pet or Earthquake can finish them off). Most importantly it has a 15 meter radius so it covers over twice the area that Earthquake does. I think it's also centered on your target (been a long time since I used it). So just pick a tombstone in the middle, fire it, and the whole group will all run towards you. No need to run to the middle of the pack like with Earthquake. The drawback is it has a 30 sec cooldown.

Back before they nerfed it so it became single target, Blinding Sand was the best skill for this. It was a 10m targeted AOE debuff so like a smaller Tangling Mire, but cost less energy and stamina and had a 1 sec cooldown. A lot of times I didn't even bother with the bow, I just ran around spamming this skill, let the pet kill stuff, and if I collected so many tombstones that I was losing an alarming amount of hp (yes, that can happen), I'd just Earthquake or Noxious them. Ah for the good old days.

Best thing about the genie skills is that they're instant cast. You can use them while running. You don't have to stop to attack. They're also nice if you're using a bow because they let you AOE without having to switch to a magic weapon to cast Noxious. Worst thing is the stamina consumption. It can get rather expensive.

Remember to be nice and share. The tombstones respawn a fixed time after they die, so if you're running around with a dozen tombstones attacking you, you're decreasing the number of tombstones available to everyone else. Don't be a jerk and hog them up this way. Fire off an AOE and kill them so they can respawn more quickly.

This is very informative, but can you tell me how to get into this room in the cube.