How do you train an aggressive pet? - Guild Wars Forums

MaglorD · Oct 13, 2005, 02:24 AM // 02:24

I was thinking put all your attributes in beast mastery and expertise. Equip your skill bar with all beast mastery skills?

Will this work?

So far I've tried dividing my attributes between beast mastery(13), expertise(12),wilderness(10). Pet did most of the damage as I was only using Flint's Fleshcleaver with no points in water magic. Pet still turned out as Playful.

I am getting quite frustrated with acquiring new pets only to fail at getting an aggressive pet.

Anet may have to change their algorithm for pets to turn out aggressive as nobody seems to get one. They all turn out playful. It's either too hard to get an aggressive or something is seriously bugged.

Elena · Oct 13, 2005, 02:26 AM // 02:26

i think to basically bring mostly pet attack skills and not let it die much

Valerius · Oct 13, 2005, 02:37 AM // 02:37

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=67761

what i did to get my pet to the Dire stage was put 12 into BM and 14 into Expertise

equip my bar with all BM skills and just attack away... has always turned to Aggressive then Dire for me... and also try not to let ur pet die too often

Jenosavel · Oct 13, 2005, 03:12 PM // 15:12

I did almost the same thing as Valerius when I got my Dire. I carried 2 or 3 pet attacks along with Call of Protection, Otyugh's Cry, and Symbiotic Bond to make sure the poor low-level pet was taking pretty much no damage. I had pumped my Beastmastery up to 16, had only 9 Expertise, had 0 marks, and had the remaining stuff in Wilderness so I could use Troll to counteract the damage from Symbiotic Bond. With the higher Beast Mastery, the few extra points from Call of Protection and Comfort Animal mean you're not healing as often, and the few extra points from the pet attacks mean your pet can kill things faster. Feral Lunge can be quite helpful because even if your pet is too lowly leveled to do much damage to things, the bleeding will wear them down.

Penguins Will Fly · Oct 14, 2005, 02:34 AM // 02:34

I've just encountered the same problem as the OP... I have 15 into beast mastery, and nothing into marksmanship, but I still ended up with a playful prefix. Does it affect it if we attack? Or do we not have to attack at all and let the pet do ALL the killing? Another thing which I could have done wrong was that I just found a sickle (really crappy one) so I decided to use it on my ranger cuz it looked cool

, and I put whatever extra points I had into axe mastery.

Also, will using EoE to help speed up the killing make a difference as well?

Valerius · Oct 14, 2005, 02:53 AM // 02:53

well... u kinda have to be attacking in order for ur pet to attack so...

just make sure ur pet doesn't die too often and that u have atleast 12BM... ur pet should be doing most of the damage and killing

Penguins Will Fly · Oct 14, 2005, 03:12 AM // 03:12

Well what I'm trying to do right now is to just run into the middle of a group and as they start attacking me my pet will eventually attack them without having me need to attack them first, and I guess I'll stick with doing this and see how it goes, just in case. But I would also like an answer to my question about EoE... it would be hellpful for making things go faster, but I'm afraid it might make my pet turn into a playful pet, but then again, EoE is in the beast mastery line so I'm not sure what to make of it.

Jenosavel · Oct 14, 2005, 03:32 AM // 03:32

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Originally Posted by Penguins Will Fly

Another thing which I could have done wrong was that I just found a sickle (really crappy one) so I decided to use it on my ranger cuz it looked cool

, and I put whatever extra points I had into axe mastery.

That, I'm fairly certain, is your problem. It seems that the reason you need to have few to no points in Marks is so that your damage sucks in comparison to your pet's. ...so using an axe with points in Axe Mastery would be the same thing as using the bow with points in Marks.

EDIT: I used EoE when I trained one of my Dires, so that shouldn't be the problem.

Oct 13, 2005, 02:24 AM // 02:24	#1
MaglorD Jungle Guide Join Date: May 2005	How do you train an aggressive pet? I was thinking put all your attributes in beast mastery and expertise. Equip your skill bar with all beast mastery skills? Will this work? So far I've tried dividing my attributes between beast mastery(13), expertise(12),wilderness(10). Pet did most of the damage as I was only using Flint's Fleshcleaver with no points in water magic. Pet still turned out as Playful. I am getting quite frustrated with acquiring new pets only to fail at getting an aggressive pet. Anet may have to change their algorithm for pets to turn out aggressive as nobody seems to get one. They all turn out playful. It's either too hard to get an aggressive or something is seriously bugged.

Oct 14, 2005, 02:34 AM // 02:34	#5
Penguins Will Fly Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Sep 2005 Guild: exiled titans Profession: W/Mo	I've just encountered the same problem as the OP... I have 15 into beast mastery, and nothing into marksmanship, but I still ended up with a playful prefix. Does it affect it if we attack? Or do we not have to attack at all and let the pet do ALL the killing? Another thing which I could have done wrong was that I just found a sickle (really crappy one) so I decided to use it on my ranger cuz it looked cool , and I put whatever extra points I had into axe mastery. Also, will using EoE to help speed up the killing make a difference as well? Last edited by Penguins Will Fly; Oct 14, 2005 at 02:52 AM // 02:52..

Oct 13, 2005, 02:26 AM // 02:26	#2
Elena Desert Nomad Join Date: May 2005 Location: Belgium	i think to basically bring mostly pet attack skills and not let it die much

Oct 13, 2005, 02:37 AM // 02:37	#3
Valerius Desert Nomad Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Canada Profession: R/	http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=67761 what i did to get my pet to the Dire stage was put 12 into BM and 14 into Expertise equip my bar with all BM skills and just attack away... has always turned to Aggressive then Dire for me... and also try not to let ur pet die too often

Oct 13, 2005, 03:12 PM // 15:12	#4
Jenosavel Master of Beasts Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: Servants of Fortuna [SoF] Profession: R/	I did almost the same thing as Valerius when I got my Dire. I carried 2 or 3 pet attacks along with Call of Protection, Otyugh's Cry, and Symbiotic Bond to make sure the poor low-level pet was taking pretty much no damage. I had pumped my Beastmastery up to 16, had only 9 Expertise, had 0 marks, and had the remaining stuff in Wilderness so I could use Troll to counteract the damage from Symbiotic Bond. With the higher Beast Mastery, the few extra points from Call of Protection and Comfort Animal mean you're not healing as often, and the few extra points from the pet attacks mean your pet can kill things faster. Feral Lunge can be quite helpful because even if your pet is too lowly leveled to do much damage to things, the bleeding will wear them down.

Oct 14, 2005, 02:53 AM // 02:53	#6
Valerius Desert Nomad Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Canada Profession: R/	well... u kinda have to be attacking in order for ur pet to attack so... just make sure ur pet doesn't die too often and that u have atleast 12BM... ur pet should be doing most of the damage and killing

Oct 14, 2005, 03:12 AM // 03:12	#7
Penguins Will Fly Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Sep 2005 Guild: exiled titans Profession: W/Mo	Well what I'm trying to do right now is to just run into the middle of a group and as they start attacking me my pet will eventually attack them without having me need to attack them first, and I guess I'll stick with doing this and see how it goes, just in case. But I would also like an answer to my question about EoE... it would be hellpful for making things go faster, but I'm afraid it might make my pet turn into a playful pet, but then again, EoE is in the beast mastery line so I'm not sure what to make of it.