Venomancer Guide 2013

Mayfly - Dreamweaver wrote: »

I think that lore summary is a mix of the low level human/untamed/elf quests (mostly untamed and elf, I don't remember that much dealing with the other races from the human quests), the Goshiki quest line, and the Venomancer level 100 new foxform quest. (I don't have a barb anywhere close to 100, so can't comment on the lore from the panda form quest.)

And OHT and Morai. The devs *really* like time travel loops in quest chains.

And yes, I was mainly referring to the questline of the winged tiger in the first bit. It's pretty schlocky fantasy writing, but also quite a decent little story and it's a shame so many people blindly click through it.

So ok, TODO: adding a comment about bewitch-seal (and it's just seal, right? Not full on chaotic?)

And also a small section on pet skills. This guide is gonna be far too long.

Edit: I seem to be able to edit the first post again now; dunno what went wrong - so ignore this post unless you want history.

Trying to add shards and petskills to guide. Testing my ability to post.


At the end of the gear section:

Note that you can, somewhat, use shards to shore up your weak spots. You'll almost always want to add magical attack to your weapon; but your armour can be partially citrines for hitpoints, and partially garnets for physical defence if you're using arcane armour or maybe sapphires for magical defence for the heavy armour users. Rich people get more options, with attack and defence levels to consider instead. If you can afford those, they're almost always better.


As a new section just above genies:


Pets being a somewhat central part of being a Venomancer, it's worth giving a quick rundown of pet skills here.

The majority of pet skills can be obtained from the Zoologist NPCs in Achosaur. That's also how you put the skills onto a pet, and level up skills. Skills cost around 100k, and levelling up costs 200k. Some rare skills are only available through events (Lyceum and dragon temple primarily - but they're tradable) or come pre-equipped on rare pets. If you have a high level faction base, some pet-skill scrolls may be on sale there, too. Those are very expensive (36m), but are the best available.

So what skills should you put on your pets? There are really three types of skill - damage, debuffs and utility.
Damage skills are the simplest. Bash is the most well known as the best for generating aggro - but there are equivalent skills in each element. There's also flesh ream (which inflicts a bleed) Pounce is an attack, an attack speed increase and a stun. Sadly, it's also rare.
The useful debuffs are mainly howl and pierce. And you can mostly duplicate pierce with ironwood; so get howl. There are other debuffs too.
For utility - the healing skills aren't really powerful enough; but tough is a pretty nice way to stay alive; as is threaten. The rare utility skills (strong, claw, protect, blessings of the pack and reflect) are all awesome if you can get them.

At level 100 many pets can evolve - and then it gains some additional skills as well as a bunch of stats. This is a good thing, don't miss it! Check with the zoologist for details.



Ok, strange; I can post but not edit the front post.
I can edit this one; but I get "No Thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator" - even though it works. Very very strange.