Couple Pet Related Questions

Iccyfoxx - Heavens Tear · February 2011

Hello. As some of you may have read (and by some I mean like 30 of you) I am returning to this game after 2 years of inactivity. This is a question about pets. When I left, the Crystalline Magmite was the best tank pet other than Herc. Has this changed? Also, my flying pet, a Petite Sawfly, was the cookie cutter flying pet. Is this still true? Thank you all in advance for your quick responses.

LenieClarke - Heavens Tear · February 2011

the glacial walker (level-19 tideborn area golem) is now the best non-herc tank, but its advantages over the magmite are fairly slim. the sawfly is neck and neck with the cloud skatefish, another tideborn area pet, but there the difference is so small that most folks who use the skatefish do so only because it looks better than the sawfly. (i'm one such.)

the varicose scorpion has an equally good competitor in the dark wanderer, if you're looking for non-tank DD pets.

tweakz · February 2011

Neither were ever true. Wait a bit and roll a Mystic if Herc/ Nix is too much.

Iccyfoxx - Heavens Tear · February 2011

tweakz wrote: »

Neither were ever true. Wait a bit and roll a Mystic if Herc/ Nix is too much.

I enjoy this class. I tried all the others, except the 2 Tideborn classes, and none ever clicked with me the way Veno did. All I am asking is if the Magmite and Sawfly pets are still good, or if there are new, better, non-payed ones out there.

LenieClarke - Heavens Tear · February 2011

you might want to read tweakz with a grain of salt; he's well known for adamantly defending personal opinions most other folks find... possible to argue with, as if they were carved-in-stone divinely-revealed truth. if tweakz says something is so, it means he will flame and rage in defense of that being so until everybody else gives up on him and goes away.

which is not to say he's not often enough right, he's not gotten his veno to level 102 by being incompetent, he's just a bit... inflexible. among other things, he's dead set on the herc being more or less the only pet worth talking about much. other people... occasionally beg to differ. i'm one of those other people.

back to the point: the magmite and sawfly are still perfectly good. at level 35, you're still low enough that getting a level-19 glacial walker and leveling it up wouldn't be entirely unreasonable --- but if you choose not to, your magmite will still serve you perfectly well. so will your sawfly, and i see brand new venos using it over the skatefish. you won't be handicapped by staying with either or both of those pets.

Waterfal - Sanctuary · February 2011

The skatefish from he tideborn area is slightly better then a sawfly.
The sawfly however comes with bash or flesh ream (if I'm not mistaken) while the skatefish doesn't (elemental bash).
The sawfly won't really require to learn a different agro skill, while it is preferable to change or add bash or fleshream to the skatefish.
So skatefish will be a bit more expensive in the long run

I don't think you should worry too much about the stat differences between the glacial and the magmite. They will both do just fine ^-^

Iccyfoxx - Heavens Tear · February 2011

Thank you. I was quite worried about having to leave my Magmite behind and having to level another pet, especially since that was the only tanking pet I ever wanted. And I'll take a look at the Scorpion. I probably will need a non-tanker.

Aniella - Harshlands · February 2011

Diff on Sawfly and Skatefish. Is def and skills..only.

Sawfly got a bit more def then Skate but they have same patk.

LShattered - Heavens Tear · February 2011

Sawfly-Air
Glacial Walker-Land
They are both ugly as hell though

Aniella - Harshlands · February 2011

rare pets work fine 2 lol..<.<

tweakz · February 2011

LenieClarke - Heavens Tear wrote: »

you might want to read tweakz with a grain of salt; he's well known for adamantly defending personal opinions most other folks find... possible to argue with, as if they were carved-in-stone divinely-revealed truth. if tweakz says something is so, it means he will flame and rage in defense of that being so until everybody else gives up on him and goes away.

-Personal attacks are this person's MO.

Vitenka - Dreamweaver · February 2011

Ignoring the troll...
Glacial walker is slightly better than the magmite, since it has a better mdef. There's not a huge amount in it, though, assuming you change pet.

The rare pets are still lovely, of course, the big ber makes a pretty decent tank. (The shadau does the survive part of tanking well, but not the doing-damage part) The others are more fragile, but deal damage well.

Mauntille - Heavens Tear · February 2011

tweakz wrote: »

-Personal attacks are this person's MO.

I thought what you quoted was pretty true, especially as of late...
I also like that you focus on the negative and ignore where you were complimented. Keep it up!b:lipcurl

On topic:

I started with the Crystalline and leveled up a Walker when they came out to compare them. The Walker's main advantages are it's hp and it's m.def. If you're tanking bosses that do magic damage or have very high phys attack, the Walker wins out. If you're not tanking bosses much and/or are good at using genie skills and pet skills to interrupt and make bosses' attacks weaker, you won't see much difference between the two.

As for the sawfly and the skatefish, I think my conclusion came down to the skatefish was better because it was prettier. Usage-wise they didn't feel that different to me. I didn't use them much tho, so that could have something to do with it.

LShattered - Heavens Tear · February 2011

tweakz wrote: »

-Personal attacks are this person's MO.

Yes, tweakz is a major pain in the @ss.

Yes, he does tend to go over the top.

Yes, he does know more about this game then most people.

And yes, people tend to not listen to him even when the info can be good sometimes.

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