Help with Beginner Pet

Are you feeding your pet regularly? Feeding it will increase its loyalty, which will make it fight harder and gain more experience. You should have recieved 200 pure water from a quest when you got your pet; feed the pet one water whenever it gets hungry. You can tell when the pet is hungry by looking at its picture, next to its health bar. When the pet is full, its picture will be clear, but when it gets hungry the picture will turn green. If it continues to go hungry, the picture will change color again and gradually turn a dark red, and the pet's loyalty will decrease.

What level is your pet? Pets gain experience and level up like players do. You should make sure that you keep your pets up to your level. For best training, you should fight monsters of the same level as your pet (the pet will not gain experience from monsters that are many levels below it).

Also, which pet did you choose? Different pets have different purposes. Some have great defences, while others are made for damage. The wolf starter pet is okay, although not particularly fabulous. The scorpion starter pet does a lot of damage, but does not have very good defence. If a defence pet is what you want, there are many available. I suggest you look at this thread for pet listings:

http://forum.deviantart.com/community/complaints/1594487/#/d3dj5ue

pets' loyalty should be kept above 500 at all times --- they hit harder then. with most free pets, might as well max it out since sesame oil is cheap enough.

your pet heal skill should always be as high as you can level it; every level that ends in 3, go buy pet heal. when you consider what it lets you do, it's one of the most seriously OP skills in the game.

Different types of food drops from different mobs. (Check pwd for things such as Hay, Fruit, Fungus, etc.) These drops are somewhat rare though, so the cheapest food are the water types that you buy from the vendor and/or the perfect cookies that you can make with tokens.

However, if you get a tome, your pet will not get hungry. You'll still need to feed it to get the loyalty up initially and up again if the pet dies, but it won't get hungry every 5 minutes.

Bridigan - Sanctuary wrote: »

I suggest you look at this thread for pet listings:

Oops, that is one NASTY page you linked to there.

Could you do a correct link to it?

In early levels, I kept a stack of Pure Water and a stack of Sesame Oils. The water took a single slot in my inventory and the oils a single slot in my safe. The latter came out only when I had a newly hatched pet, and eventually, I wised up and only bought sesame's when I just tamed a new pet.

I'd suggest emptying your bag every time you go to town and prioritising what you want to carry around. Pick up every stack of coins, DQ item and gear drop that you can carry. Things like ammo you can trash as you can really only make money off the higher level arrows/bolts/shot if you merchant it to other players. Do the banker quests for free extra slots in your bank.

Also, keep your pet stowed when you're not fighting. It won't get hungry if it's in your bag.

If you do all of that, you only need to kill about 1 mob every minute (assuming mobs around your level drop on average 10 coins) to break even.

It may seem a little daunting at first, but it's not as bad as may seem.

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Bridigan probably meant to look here:

http://pwi-wiki.perfectworld.com/index.php/Ultimate_Pet_List

Not all the information is there, but it's fairly thorough. But keep in mind that it's all the tamables and not just the good ones.

rtsprite wrote: »

You gotta understand, I have all newbie characters, and my repair bills can almost be as much as what I get from vendoring the junk and any quest reward money I recieve. It can seem like nothing for someone who has been playing for a while to spend 50 every 5 minutes. It is easy to forget what it was like when first starting out in a game like this.

I do really like the way this class sounds, BUT will focus on the less expensive classes at first and also being my crafting up. Some of the first tier potions sell for a lot to the vendor, so I will do that to get some money saved up, then start playing my cute fox girl more then.

One last question. Do I have to feed it every 5 minutes if I use better food?

If you think a Veno's Repair bill is high and/or its an expensive class then let me give you a little advice:

Veno is the cheapest class,and that's for sure.

Also no,no matter which food you use,you will always have to feed it every 5 mins.
The quality of the food influence the loyality it gives.

Segreta - Sanctuary wrote: »

If you think a Veno's Repair bill is high and/or its an expensive class then let me give you a little advice:

Veno is the cheapest class,and that's for sure.

Also no,no matter which food you use,you will always have to feed it every 5 mins.
The quality of the food influence the loyality it gives.

Cost for necessary skills = 7-10 million
Cost for herc/nix = 90-100 million
Cost for Building decent normal pet = round to 4 million , less if u find good deals in AH
Cost for buying tome = 1 million
Cost for decent weapon and gear = 8-18 weapon , 4 for each piece of armor with shards + extra for refines. = way higher for endgame

I dont think veno is really that cheap class. It just the only class that has a balanced need of money through the lvling process while others may face problems at higher lvls ( ex. Archers sins get most int stuff 90+ that costs a lot).

rtsprite wrote: »

You gotta understand, I have all newbie characters, and my repair bills can almost be as much as what I get from vendoring the junk and any quest reward money I recieve. It can seem like nothing for someone who has been playing for a while to spend 50 every 5 minutes. It is easy to forget what it was like when first starting out in a game like this.

I do really like the way this class sounds, BUT will focus on the less expensive classes at first and also being my crafting up. Some of the first tier potions sell for a lot to the vendor, so I will do that to get some money saved up, then start playing my cute fox girl more then.

One last question. Do I have to feed it every 5 minutes if I use better food?

um. my veno became my main char within weeks after i started playing, and became my highest leveled char before she hit 20. i played with that good old one pure water every five minutes system for well over sixty levels, and though i've got a fair bit of coin now, it definitely wasn't always so. i assure you, i remember being unable to buy all the stuff i wanted before starting out on my next quest because of running out of coin; it still happens, only now it's because i've sunk all my on-hand coin into skills first, and am too lazy to go to the bank...

(pet's face in the little circle turn green? hit the hotkey for pure water. it got to be such an ingrained reflex, after i got my tome, i walked around the map with an odd feeling for many days; "something's wrong, but what is it? oh yeah, i haven't fed my pet all session --- i have a tome now, i no longer need to. duh.")

pet food is not a huge cost. it's 52 coin per pure water, i used to buy it in stacks of 250 to make it an even 13,000 coin bill; such a stack could last me most of a week of gameplay. one week of veno-style grinding can make MUCH more than 13k coin of pure profit, even after repairs and upgrades, i assure you! yes, even in the lower levels! when i finally got a tome a while ago, it was because i wanted the extra mag and had started building towards a level-3 tome for a much longer-term goal.

(and yes, it's every five minutes no matter what quality food you use. the more expensive kinds get you more loyalty for your pet; they're worth it to get the loyalty bar maxed out at first, but not after you hit 500 loyalty any longer.)

i quit paying for potions when i got soul transfusion. so long as your pet does all the tanking, that skill alone can keep you from running out of MP. haven't bought either a HP or a MP potion since, and i've sold most of the ones i've picked up, though i did get some from the divine emissaries to keep as an emergency reserve.

as best i can tell, the most expensive class to play may be one of the earthguards, because of potion/apoth expenses. or possibly a barb, because of repairs. wizards and psys probably get expensive later on, because of needing good gear, but neither of mine are that far along yet. having played every class to at least some extent, the veno's the cheapest by far in my experience.