What's the best wolf pet?

Raujada - Archosaur wrote: »

I know they're not the best pets ever, but I really like wolves and I wonder what could be the best of them b:laugh the best looking is the mastiff of great divide for me, it's the only one who looks realistic.

What do you think about?

Well, mostly I think about *censored*

But back to the topic of wolves, I actually don't remember what they all look like anymore, except for the wolf that I tamed as my first pet.....and still have in the bank

The most popular wolf-like pet of all time would have to be the Kowlin though, despite the heated debate around its merits. Just one of the posts about it: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=905872

I never used one though so I could not say what skills would be best for it. I am sure there is a post somewhere that covers that issue as well.

Glad you found a pet to love

Wolves are actually some pretty awesome pets. Unfortunately, much like with many other different pet types, they've fallen victim to the wrecked imbalance of Golems (Maggies, the Walker) OP Hercs and biased players. Their biggest problem is that they were mostly designed to be balanced pets, with few strenghts but nearly no weak points, which at the current state of the game makes them inferior to the cookiecutters and with no specific niche to fill. Still, I remember some very awesome venos leveling them far into the game and they can certainly fit in nicely as attack or multirole PvE pets for non minmaxers. As a comparison a Darkbreed Wolfkin gets near the same damage as a Kowlin but is much more ressilient. Other outstanding wolves are the starter sharptooths (there's a color morph for this one, but I can't recall its name) which benefit enormously from their low tame level, and and the Guardian Wolf, at some point considered "the poor man's Shaodu Cub" and a very attractive model in it's own right. Adding to Veneir's post, they're divided in four families.

Type I - Grey Wolves, very balanced in terms of stats although they tend to be a bit more deffensive than the others, and very much the "standard Wolf" in terms of looks (although why, and how, wolves would comb quasi-pompadours in their heads remains something only the original devs could answer) they come in two different size variations. Apart from the Sharptooth, the Rider Wolf deserves a mention as infamous, as taming one of these under the impression they could be used as mounts was once a very common mistake for rookie venos.

Type II - Spined Wolves, generally better offensive stats than type I, although overall balanced as well. Given it's pedigree as an elite mob the Darkbreed used to be the most commonly caught, although its stats really are no different than those of other same level wolves. Much like type I there's also an infamous member to this family, the Frozen Wolfkin is a great looking model as a mob but once caught it makes for a very ugly, cross eyed pet. They are distinguished for the 4 spiny protuberances on their backs (they do get to keep the pompadour) and also come in two size variatons.

Type III - Maned Wolves, their main advantage over other wolf types was better/higher level skill sets as they generally added an elemental Bash to the usual Ream/Howl wolf combo, well balanced stats much like the others. I think the Snakevalley Bloodwolf was the more popular, although there were a couple Venos who prided themselves on taming the blue ones as distinctly unique pets. Appearance trades the pompadour for a unicorn type hairdo, keeps the type II spines and adds manes.

Type IV - Neolithic Wolves, an exception to the rule about balanced stats, these make for some very good tanking pets. Damage is little better than a Shaodu cub's, but the phys res is good enough the "magic tank" label is somewhat unfair, they can certainly handle all PvE jobs available to pets other than Herc. Their appearance is also very unique, a cyber type sleek kind of thing, and the model is very nicely textured and detailed, although really this is mostly a love it or hate it type of deal. There's 3 morphs if I remember right with the Lunar trading the Guardian's blue stripes for pink. One thing to note is type IV are very fast and make for great luring pets.

Finally, although not Wolves, the Tabby, Pup and Kowlin do have wolf-like balanced stats, with the Tabby being the more ressilient, the kowling the better damage and the Pup coming somewhere in between. These rares are also all fast, the Kowlin is the fastest land pet available, and the Tabby and the Pup are some of the smallest pet models available. Generally this is also an advantage to most wolves (if we discount the larger morphs) although the largest and rarest pet theorically available in PW is actually also a wolf of sorts, probably in a family of its own, the Mother of the Den.

As for the Mastiff, they are actually not bad pets at all and do have wolf like stats as well but, leaving aside the fact this is technically a type of dog, and I do see how the model is made in a less cartoonish style, seriously two heads make for something closer to an irl wolf?

b:cute Thank you very much, means a lot coming from posters like you.

As for the scheme I was wondering about that myself going through the wiki links, I think the numbered type system was something we inherited from the Malaysian crowd, and I do distinctly remember seeing it used in some of the pet stat sites we would browse back in the old days, especially those in French. Although really there's no in game reason to use it, so I guess it's something more of a habit. The wiki using a descriptive system is actually not bad.

Edit; I'm not sure what type of analysis you're talking about, but yes, by all means. Given, ahem, some minor slips in my posting history it's not like I've really got that much of a rep to lose anyway...

MANray_ - Sanctuary wrote: »

b:cute Thank you very much, means a lot coming from posters like you.

As for the scheme I was wondering about that myself going through the wiki links, I think the numbered type system was something we inherited from the Malaysian crowd, and I do distinctly remember seeing it used in some of the pet stat sites we would browse back in the old days, especially those in French. Although really there's no in game reason to use it, so I guess it's something more of a habit. The wiki using a descriptive system is actually not bad.

Edit; I'm not sure what type of analysis you're talking about, but yes, by all means. Given, ahem, some minor slips in my posting history it's not like I've really got that much of a rep to lose anyway...

This analysis, Manny ! http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=18757891&postcount=1225
Aww what do you mean posters like me, I just run around chatting with Kossy and stuff x3 Ahaha, thankies much~

Manray, make a pet guide like that. Would be a perfection.

alphin lunar is a very colorfull full grown wolf dog pet.

much like the pup u see near all minor city including archo.

sadly how the game mechanism work is that the lower lv they are the more damage stats they get.

what does help as a higher lv pet is there speed is much better then lower lv and look way more cool then the small size pup u see at start of the game.

lunar lupin is for this very reason one of my popular wolf/dog alianator.

can be found near the city south of silver pool.

it spawn as its killed.