Venomancer or Psychic ?

This question is a lot more complicated than it seems. People ask a lot what they should play, but if I could make a recommendation it would be to try each one, play to 30, and see which fits your play style better. It takes very little time to reach level 30, and even though you certainly won't see the true capabilities of the class anywhere near that level, it should be enough to make a decision on which you would like to take further.

I agree with Hisuna: there's no reason not to try both. I have alts (alternate characters) in every class but barbarian, and I find it nice to switch between them when I'm bored of my usual style. You get eight character slots per server, so there's no reason not to experiment and have fun.

The two classes boiled down to this:

Venomancer:
-Easy to solo and the least demanding class as far as equipment and money goes. The only real expense is the hefty price tag that the legendary pets come with, but those are ultimately optional.
-Highly flexible, buildwise. I know some venos who are almost pure fox-builds, others who concentrate on leveling their scarab skills. Heck, one of my venos was rocking dual axes until about level 25, when I restated her. Building a veno can be a lot of fun, because of the low pressure.
-Venos are appreciated in squads, because of their ability to pull mobs with their pets. That said, you will be expected to pull, which can be dangerous if someone doesn't catch the mob.
-Also, collecting pets is just fun. My second veno is themed... all her pets are mythical creatures of some kind. b:chuckle
-However, venos do have a bit of a nasty reputation. Be careful not to kill steal with your pet, and don't develop any superiority complexes, and you should be fine.
-Veno characters are female only. If you're a guy in real life, this can be a problem, because you will get flirted with. Probably a lot.
-Also, if you do let your equipment slide a bit, this could mean trouble if something goes wrong. If you aren't packing enough potions or updated equipment, and you somehow catch aggro of the wrong thing, or get hit by a nasty aoe... you're going to go down a lot faster than any other class.

Psychic:
-Psychics are one of the hardest-hitting classes in the game. They specialize in taking things down quickly, hopefully before that thing can get a hit in on their squishy butts. b:chuckle
-Let's be honest: the tideborns just look cool. There was a lot of care put in developing the TB character models, and TBs have special equipment that only they, as a race, can use. Besides, who doesn't think that wavy shimmy thing they do when standing around isn't cool?
-Psychics are, like I said, squishy, so you're going to have to be careful to keep your equipment up to date, and make use of hp and physical defense shards.
-One downside: aggro stealing. You may find yourself having to hold back your damage if you don't have a really good tank. That means that either you damage at less than full capacity, or you get attacked by whatever you're hitting.

So yeah, it really is up to you. They have vastly different playstyles, soI suggest starting both, and just playing whichever one you feel like at any given time. It's not like it's a race to get to level 105 or anything. Take your time and enjoy the game... from two different angles, or more, if you like! b:victory

Yindra - Sanctuary wrote: »

If pet=Herc. As far as free pets go, these can't tank bosses unless you throw a HUGE leveldifference between them. MAYBE uber-gear can help compensate for that, but I only read about Hercs --- it seems people consider Hercs to be more important than uber-gear when it comes to tanking bosses.

Most people yes . . general view . .

Yeah, with 5 minutes cooldown. The healing also takes ages to cast, so it's more suited to replace a meditation after something went wrong rather than saving your butt while something goes wrong.

Better than archer fate and psychic fate . . and veno has both recovery . .

IF the pet can tank the monster. See above.

Correct, smart squad will handle their damage output if pet is tanking so not stealing agroo.

Even a lvl 10 amp expires before the cooldown. Plus, amp is a fox skill, which makes it extremely annoying for a caster veno. It might have its uses, no doubt, but I doubt people will want to do it "24/7".

It's not really 24/7 what i mean is always using it as often as you can.

Are you even allowed to heal the pet in fox form?

Yes, o.0 you not know that ?

Lol. I see other classes solo world monsters; for instances... see above. NOBODY has to hate me for solo capability --- I'm far behind with Cultivations and FBs due to my excellent solo capability :-)

Again, didn't i say some people hate veno ability to solo . . not everyone.

Eh? Not that I care about rare pets, they aren't meant for normal players to have. But frankly, why would "you" be hated for getting one? Why not the people that actually DO get them, camping the area, botting, PKing (on appropiate servers), killing them if they see that you might be getting it instead of them, and not even USING them because all they want with it is to slap an insane pricetag on it and stick it into a shop?

Well that just general view on most veno that never getting it . . not mine.

I can't be sure about that (see comment on Cultivation), but its not that unusual. It doesn't really matter what the skill animations are; in bascially every game you use the same subset of your skills over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... so whatever the animation is, it's always boring.

Veno is no 1 when it's coming to repeating skill animation . .

Besides, ever looked at those poor tigers?

At last they less boring than keep looking at fox form, and has more animation.

dirtydesire wrote: »

That means that there are pets for that we have to pay real life money to buy/get them?

Yes, and they were called legendary pet. Phoenix and Hercules.
With Hercules you have better chance to solo high lv instance, because Hercules has skill and status that make him the best tank pet. And Phoenix is a flying pet mainly for PVP, famous of bugged bleed. Though after lv 90+ many people now don't think phoenix dangerous anymore.

You need 9999 of Source of strength for Hercules pet egg ticket for phoenix 9999 phoenix feather.
They can be obtained from pet battle pack at boutique or buying from other player, of course it's not cheap.And unlike other pet egg, once you trade the ticket you can't trade the pet egg anymore. (you can still trade it by using account stash to other character on same account)

inb4necrolock

Why is this not locked yet? <_<

;_; That wonderful bit of information above me almost makes me sad to know this is a necro. =P I'm going to save this info for later on, if I ever decide to level my psy past 1 again.

I really agree about trying them both first, leveling them at some level in which you feel comfortable to, and then making the decision. I have both Veno (YaoJing for other servers) and Psychic (WuShih to some) and I have seen the pros and cons of both classes. Well the thing is, Venos are really cool and somehow easy to play with, but their main offensive skills are just so boring 'cause all the actions are just the same and only the animation effect are being varied. Considering your freedom to choose whatever pet you want because of your taming abilities, it is one of the most admired pros of the Veno's. Psychics, on the other hand, comes in reallly handy to some because of their fast skill channeling, and, of course, their soulforce buffs which are really, really helpful in combat. On the other side, fast mana drain is a very obvious con of Psychics and they are really very tender, and very vulnerable to stun, paralyze, and seal skills, which make it very hard for them to defeat their brothers in arms, the Assassins(XiShou's) in combat. So much for that, I hope you can make up your mind in choosing which class to play with, and I hope I am of help to you:thanks