Veno pets can't tank multiple mobs

There is no AOE pet aggro skill other than Reflect.

In Phoenix Valley I found that if i waited long enough before healing my Herc, it could generate enough aggro to keep the mob from running to me. Even so you have to be ready to catch the occasional stray runner or you'll get killed.

The usual method is to hit each mob a few times before healing and nuking.

In the old days before powerleveling, Venos would practice the fine art of tanking multiple Seaspray Bladewolves. Hit a few times then move on to the next until you reach the max number you can tank at your current pet heal level.

krishnaya wrote: »

I have a lvl 80 veno with herc. Yes I can tank many bosses and such. The problem is that I don't see ANY pet skills that can grab hate from multiple mobs. Some one told me I can tank frost as Veno. Sure I could tank the bosses. But on groups of mobs like 5-10 mobs, there's no way to do it.

Any thoughts on this matter would be appreicated.

When you're level 90 you can basically solo FC up to the bishop boss. I never really tried again since hitting lvl100, so I don't know yet if I can kill bishops fast enough. At lvl 80 soloing mob groups in FC is difficult. I'm not sure how much that difficulty had to do with the fact that at lvl80 I was LA build and not yet pure mag.

As pure mag at lvl90 I could easily kill most mobs out of a group without needing to heal the herc more than say, twice or thrice max.

As for pulling say the assassin mobs and all that, I'm not sure whether or not you could do this in multiple group pulls all at once. Never tried, used to just keep my hypers on and pull group by group.

I used to glitch the boss, basically like this:

I wait until the boss breaks out of the ice, then I hit it with scarab, and use demon fox to run out to the stairwell. My herc gets caught at the line separating the room and the stairway (and so does the boss), and I make it attack the boss. The boss keeps trying to random-aggro-bubble me, and rarely attacks the herc. I stand at the top of the stairs and wait a bit.

Approximately once every 25% of the boss's HP it will begin to attack the herc. Do not try to run down the stairs to heal it. The first time you see that the herc's HP is low enough that you must heal it, unsummon it, then resummon it and heal it, rebuff it, and send it back. The boss won't reset since it still has you on its hate-list, and you're still within aggro range.

Now the herc is no longer caught behind the line, so subsequent needs to heal can be satisfied by just pull the herc back with "Follow", heal, then resend. It will die in about 20min. Note well, my herc doesn't have bash, flesh-ream or claw...I have Blessing of the Pack on my herc, so it kills a lot slower. Most people in here don't have a full tank-build herc with Blessing, and have put Bash on their herc. So for most people the boss will probably die in 10-15 min.

So basically you stand at the top of the stairs and pull the herc back when you need to heal, then send it back in. If you say you can solo bishop boss, then w00t for me, I got all the mats for my TT99 wep yesterday except for the gold mats, so in about 2 days I'll have a shiny new +6 Tt99 glaive to complete my -channeling farming set...sounds like I might be able to solo FC (>o_-)> <(o_-<). Slasher boss is easy and EXP room boss too...only reason I couldn't was because of Bishop boss.

On a herc there isnt really an aoe skill besides reflect but it isnt really an aoe skill. When i aoe grind with my herc, I normally let the herc attk the mob then go to the next one, and let the previous one catch up attk my herc, and repeat the process. Ofc throw a random heal in every now and then. Reflect helps keep agro bc it makes it look like the herc is attking back when it isnt. When i got a nice group ( say about 10-15) I unleash noxious gas and sometimes nova.

A veno cant solo frost(the boss) o.O Who told u that? Sure its not sugarly sweet but its doable. I did it for one of my faction members.

Now for FC, I can tank just about all the bosses but i need some dds for bishop and a cleric for bubble boss. My wiz friend and i take care of the mobs in 2 shots.

TattooAngel - Archosaur wrote: »

Really? My boyfriend just sends his buggy in (it has Bloodthirst, Flesh Realm, Tough, and Claw), and he does just find taking on 3-5 monsters at a time. He stands back a little further than I do when I send my pet in so maybe that's why.

Buggy. So underestimated.

you guys talking about a Qingfu?