HellDuke VS Glacial Walker

Personally, i would stick with the walker because it is the best over all tanker after the herc.

As for flying pet, tbh, if you can lvl up a sawfly, it'll be very nice. it has very nice attack so you can rip through mobs very quickly. the only thing bad about it is it's low hp and def. but if you want a flying pet around your lvl, there is a foxwing at lvl34 around heaven's tear, close to the pterosaurs. it has crappy attack though, so i'm not sure about it's tanking ability.

that's just my $0.02 worth, i'll let other more experienced people elaborate.

The wasps by Heavens Tear are 2x, for 3x wasps, go by Allies Camp.

The Ebony Hellduke seems to be a decent dps pet, although unlikely to be as good as the Wanderer. Also, it's got mag def as its strong defensive stat unlike the Wanderer's heavy focus on phys. The Wanderer is probably the better choice amongs the two although the Hellduke does seem worth leveling.

As for the flying pet i agree with Lennie, your best bet is probably to try to catch up a Skatefish. I will say however that unless you PvP a flying pet is hardly worth it and you may be better off just taming something close to your level whenever you need one. Foxwings are traditionally a more ressilient choice than bugs with a lower dps output, if you'll be going for one it will likely be to ditch your previous pet for a higher leveled one all the way to 60, then wait for the Elyssium Fowl at early 7x.

I wouldn't say leveling a Duke (or a Wanderer) is a waste of time, because as you level up, a DPS pet becomes more and more handy. Until you get a herc, you'll most likely not be tanking in same-level squads anyways, so a DPS pet helps with the boss more than a tank like the Walker. As well, the best DPS pets (scorp and Wanderer/Duke) both start at very low levels, so if you wait until you really need them to level them, it'll be frustrating and take a very long time. I leveled my Wanderer when I was in my late 40s/early 50s, and it was boring as nothing else.

Though the Wanderer has less HP than the Walker, its phy def is still very good, so you shouldn't have trouble using him as a tank. Though, if you keep an air pet like the Sawfly or the Skatefish leveled, you can use those as DPS pets when grinding, though they're a lot more fragile than the Wanderer.

I personally use a Dark Wanderer and a Glacial Waker.
I think that haveing a dps pet and a Tank Pet in my Bag ready to use makes me way more valuable in a party.
It might look hard to keep all the pets leveled but later it will get easyer since you level slower.

If you grind alot for drops like i do leveling the Pet is not so bad as i felt it was at the 20-50ish levels.
You might want to keep both. I can tell you haveing a late change of mind and leveling a pet from scratch to 70 is worse (yes in lower levels i though i will only need one air, ground and water pet...). ;-)
Its realy worth the time.
On the other hand the GW base attack isnt exactly crappy but due to the fact that you can only put 4 skills on each pet useing only one will strongly limit your flexibility.

You could always get the mats for the other slots to increase your pag.it is best ot keep both pets in your bag and you want a water pet as you are getting close to do quests to kill sharks.

Actually it's 100 fungus, not 50.

Getting 50 fruits is cheaper than buying gold and then the cage. Personally, I had the patience to farm those 50 fruits alone. I started with the lvl38 chislers(whatever that name was...) south of angler's village and moved to the flying mobs south of City of the Lost. I guess you could farm half of them and buy the rest to save time but for the fungus, you better buy the cage instead. Either way, the 50 fruit is quite easy to get.

Desdi - Sanctuary wrote: »

Getting 50 fruits is cheaper than buying gold and then the cage. Personally, I had the patience to farm those 50 fruits alone. I started with the lvl38 chislers(whatever that name was...) south of angler's village and moved to the flying mobs south of City of the Lost. I guess you could farm half of them and buy the rest to save time but for the fungus, you better buy the cage instead. Either way, the 50 fruit is quite easy to get.[/COLOR]

Folks, any time there's a mismatch between the price of something with in-game items and the price of it through the cash shop, that's an opportunity to make or save yourself some money. But the price of 1 gold correlates to a certain amount of time spent grinding for coin off mobs which drop lots of loot. If you then spend that time grinding instead for fruit on mobs which don't give you as much loot, you've thrown away that opportunity. If it's taking you longer to collect the requisite amount of fruit, you might as well have gone grinding for coin, converted it to gold, and bought the cage.

I understand some of you like to grind for these things because that's how you pass your time in the game. You get a goal to collect something, and you like to collect it yourself. This post is not directed at you. It's directed at the folks who think they're saving money by grinding for the fruit or fungus themselves (hay is valuable enough it's worth grinding for if you're still near level 30). When you buy fruit from the AH or from a cat shop, the comparison is not between spending the money for the fruit and not spending the money for the fruit. The correct comparison is the time spent to gather the fruit and the time spent to buy the fruit and make back the money.

Whether you grind for fruit, grind for coin, grind for coin and buy fruit, grind for fruit and sell it for coin, it's all the same thing. The only thing that matters in the end is how much time you spend grinding, and how much fruit (dropped or bought) and coin (dropped or received from sales) you get for it. At 6pm you started with 0 coin and 0 fruit. At 8 pm you have 400k and 50 fruit. Exactly what you did between 6pm and 8pm to acquire that coin and fruit doesn't matter. All that matters is that 2 hours have passed and you have 400k and 50 fruit more than you started with.

Fruit is usually pretty cheap, the mobs which drop it are difficult grinds or don't drop enough loot (or both) to make it worthwhile. Your time is generally better spent grinding on easier mobs, selling the drops, and buying the fruit. (There's a whole other issue of cooperative teamwork and efficiency I could get into. To keep this short, I won't expand on it. But it too says that on average the players on the server are better off if you buy the stuff you need from other players, and sell what you don't need to other players.)

Same goes for fungus - find out how much 100 fungus would cost to buy from AH/cat shops, compare it to the cost to buy the gold for a cage, and that will tell you which is cheaper. I haven't checked it in the last 3 months, but every time I've checked it before then, it was cheaper to buy the fungus. Fungus generally drops from higher level mobs, so you'll probably be forced to buy it from AH/cat shops. But that's ok since that's much more efficient than trying to grind for it yourself.

That said, if you're going to grind for fruit anyway, the easiest grinds are probably the cloudmelding vipions around level 40. They're non-aggro and have a pretty good drop rate. At level 50, the easiest source is the evolved vipions above hidden heroes village (near Etherblade). They are also non-aggro, there's a village below so you can safely drop from the sky any time you get into trouble, and an NPC for you to sell other loot is directly underneath them. Their primary disadvantage is that they're wood mobs so they take a bit longer to kill (hint: let the pet do most of the work while you go to loot the previous kill). But you won't be wasting time killing or running away from other random stuff which aggros on you.