PET SKILLS on GW

get them from chests in dragon temple

Dragon Temple is a weekly event involving an underwater PvP enabled area, which alone makes it accesible to mostly high levels. In here you will find a new chests guarded by several high level mobs from which you may obtain these rare scrolls. Given that very few people can access them these skills are not practical to farm and while you may get lucky and maybe get some of this skills for the price of a mount such as Hell Hound, they usually tend to go for well over 10 mil. Some skills, such as Blessing can cost as much as high demand sage/demon skillbooks...

So either you should level up to 90+, gear adequately, skill a plumpfish for PvP and get yourself a good squad so you can farm the instance for some months, or you'll need to grind, merchant and save enough for almost an average endgame weapon. Or you could just fork over a bit over half the cash you would need nowadays to get an herc.

Try looking for pet skills in the AH, you can usually find a couple of the skills for sale in there...

Cat shops, Auctioneer, World Chat. If you don't know Dragon Temple: chances are you'll not get them there.

All those skills would be a waste on a Walker. It's never going to be a Herc even if you spend as much as a Herc costs on it. It's slow, and it majorly obstructs targeting. My Herc is Lv. 101 and it struggles on some bosses that I routinely use it on. When you get the dailies in the OHT maps: your Walker will probably be useless on the bosses (Soloing) yet a Ranged Pet could do the job.

Beyron - Harshlands wrote: »

how the hell I'm supose to get the pets to my lvl??????........ right now I made the math and for the sawfly I need to kill like 3300 mobs in order to get it to where I'm now............. you know how long that's gonna take!!!!..... even if you kill 100 per day it will take 1 month and thats if you dont lvl because every lvl adds like 200 mobs more..... I fking hate this..... I have all my clothes for my lvl, all my clothes has 3 flawless shards so Im pretty decent for my lvl....but my pets wich I think are 50 % of my power or atleast they can be..... its imposible to lvl them out atleast the sawfly I know that GW or herc I can do Cube of Faith for that room # 4..... I cant believe that there isnt any Item or something that I can buy and lvl them up like the way you do with genies for example.....

lol, what's that about a day of grinding? b:laugh

Manakel - Dreamweaver wrote: »

Those scrolls can go for about 20 mil each

I actually saw a protect scroll in a catshop for 10m today. Surprised, but even so a GW with herc buffs still cant compare to a real herc.

i think gw w herc buff is COOl..cuz no1 have it..and if u get it..will be special pet - only u have well only do dragon event xD it will drop 1 day xD and then for free.

I still will get Herc buffs on my GW...looking at the stats its doesnt seeme like a complete waste. Or atleast like a better idea then putting Nix buffs on a sawfly.b:surrender
Herc is so ugly (golden ogre, wtf?), but if you like his looks its defnitly the better tank i wont deny that. WHY PW DID U MAKE IT SO UGLY???b:cry

Currently all i do is leveling pets since i had a long brake too and when i came back there was the Walker and the Dark Wanderer. If you dont like leveling pets plz dont waste any money on the legendary pet skills just reroll because it wont get easyer to level them and urself since i for example completely abandoned BH for the sake of my pet levels.

In my eyes running around with an underleveled pet is like useing a white level 50 weapon on a lv 70 archer, useing 20 level lower NPC Armor as a Barb, a clv60 cleric with lv4 IH...in other words: not an option if i ever want to squad with someone! b:surrender

Zairi - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I still will get Herc buffs on my GW...looking at the stats its doesnt seeme like a complete waste. Or atleast like a better idea then putting Nix buffs on a sawfly.b:surrender

No, it's a complete waste. I don't think you understand just how big the difference is.

With herc buffs, a walker has 76% of the hp, takes 7% more damage (14% vs 13%) against physical, and 12.5% (18% vs 16%) more damage against magic. That means against physical damage it's 70.68% as good as a herc and against magical damage it's 66.5% as good as a herc. On top of this, you've got a choice with reflect. If you take reflect you're going to have 1 aggro skill just like a herc (though a magmite benefits from bash more) and have the same aggro issues or perhaps even worse when facing normal mobs. If you don't take reflect and instead go with two aggro skills, you're going to have worse aggro on bosses but be better able to hold it on normal mobs.

Either way, it's not a herc. If you really want to put some buffs on something, give a marksman strong, protect, and claw.

Ah... and no you don't have to give up your BHs to lvl your pets. Just go for the cube of fate method, it's very fast. I got my herc at lvl 83 and got it from lvl 1 to my lvl within two days, with the cube method. You just need patience and determination. If you don't have that, roll another class, cause pets aren't for you then.

While anyone can do that, I think the point (or atleast my point) was that the person shouldn't. They need to learn how to play and they're not going to get that from the cube.

Many venos (including myself) hope to one day skill the rare buffs on to whatever pets they commonly use or fancy. However we shouldn't make the mistake of thinking this will make our pets almost as good as an herc or nix, it will not. While such skills will greatly improve a pet's performance, there are still limits to what a regular pet will do when compared with a legendary, large enough that the roles of herc'ed and unherc'ed venos in a squad may be vastly different.

Unless you are nearing endgame i would not recommend trying to acquire these skills at all, as the oportunity cost for such an investment is very real. The cheaper variety of skills available through the Mrs. Zoologist npc really are a great alternative, and i would much rather recommend any veno experiment with these first. The right, properly leveled, skill set on any given pet will drastically improve your capabilities and you can tailor it to suit your playing style. I would recommend to any veno still far from saving enough for an herc, or determined for whatever reason not to use one, to first skill their pets in this manner and concentrate their efforts in gear/skills instead. Once you reach higher levels you'll be able to properly gauge wether investment in rare skills is worth it or not, and you won't be struggling with a poorly skilled pet through level ranges where regular skills would have been far more profitable and useful. Of course this doesn't mean you should let pass the oportunity of acquiring a skill such as Claw if you can find it at below market price.

Bash (Ream for PvP) and Threaten (Tough for tanking pets) are probably the best starting points and i can hardly think of any pet or role that would not benefit from using these. Howl is likely the best way to increase your damage output. Other skills such as Shriek or Roar can dramatically increase your pet's performance if you learn to use them properly. Remember to properly research what skills will most benefit your particular pets, your playing style and what needs you have when on a party. Also keep your mind open about trying pets which more closely fit the profile of what you're trying to accomplish. I say this because skilling even in this fashion is by no means cheap. I myself i'm set to spend 6 mill over the next couple of levels just to get my pets right. This will involve using forget scrolls on skills i've previously invested in as well as giving up my Shaodu Cub's Pounce, but my hope is that my pets will be able to perform at an above average level once i'm through skilling them. That should put me in a much better position to eventually acquire those rare skills for them... But only after i've saved up enough for a Nix...