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1) That would be level 30. If you have the money to, you can buy one for level 20 from the boutique

2) Scorpions make good DDing pets even at later levels. You might want to check the venomancer forum for more pets but a widely used tanking pet is the Glacial Walker (level 19) you can find near Raging Tides. More rare pets you can use are the Shaodu Cub (level 20) and cuddly pup (level 40).

3) Venos are very efficient in grinding in that you don't need any pots for hp/mp. Also, you can farm herbs and other mats while your pet kills. They used to have an advantage in soloing some instances but I do not know the current state of affairs. I wouldn't worry too much at your level about money making. Familiarise yourself with the game and worry about that and your gear again when you're level 70+ (NB you get some nice quests with nice coin rewards like the Goshiki quest chain)

4) Try changing to your account's avatar then back to this one and hope it refreshes. Or just wait..

Cheers

1) Level 30 (unless you cash shop, there are flyers you can buy usable at lower levels.)

2) Scorpion's fine until you reach your upper teens. At 17, there's the crystalline magmite; at 18, the volcanic magmite (an elite, so probably out of the question to tame solo) and at 19, the current preferred free tank pet, the glacial walker.

3) Venomancers make good coin grinding (and can keep a greater percentage than any other class, due to low repairs and not needing many pots), and need to grind to level pets. TT used to be the main source of coin for venomancers with hercs, but between APS classes being able to farm TT faster and 2x events, the market's been flooded with TT mats making many near worthless, and the remaining aren't really farmable with a herc. The real money is in merchanting, and grinding will at least get you seed money.

4) Try going into Edit your Avatar again and re-selecting your avatar to unglitch it.

Stick with the scorpion. Together with the dark wanderer it's the best DD-pet ^^
At lvl 19 or so you can tame a glacial walker at tideborn area. They're pretty good tanks when it comes to physical damage, and it'll last you quite some time.
It's however not a must. My veno had 1 for a couple of lvls, but it's awefully slow and big b:surrender

Games we play for fun, not stress. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. As for tomes...
Read this
or this (more pictures).

for making money mats are really the best way to do it go around starter cities and pick up all the nectar u can find and all pig iron u can find sell pig iron for about 1k each to catshops or as a catshop and ppl buy nectar for around 500+ coins (note u get about 2 nectar per picking so its actually good) u can get around 100k+ an hour just from farming those mats
(set up a catshop b4 u go to bed and just leave it running in lost or arch which i find are the best places to sell low lvl mats)


as for a herc i honestly wouldnt worry about it hercs are not much needed anymore unless you plan on soloing tt and in higher lvl instances most ppl don't care if u use pet they just want your debuff skills ( the sins kill the mobs too fast for pets to be of much use except on bosses but then those bosses sometimes kill pet which gets annoying and ppl wont care as long as you debuff) and unless you are rich id spend your coin somewhere else since u can get free pets that will work decently(walker bear eldergoth for tanks and rider scorpion and waspkin and new morai pet if u hit 101 and can find it for dds)

nix is best pvp pet hands down but wont help you farm instances so not worth it unless you really want to be the best at pvp.

once u hit 89 and go sage or demon farming herbs in heaven / hell is next best place to gain coins till u hit 100 then you can get into nirvy XD
and as soon as you can buy a tome u can get cheapest ones for around 1.3mil least those are the prices for lvl 1 tomes on my server will save u the hassle of having to feed ur pets every 5 min