Curse

kilo1501 · Jul 06, 2006, 07:55 PM // 19:55

Does having henchmen on the team affect the amount of exp coming in to your pet?

my secondary is a monk and Great guide btw

Valerius · Jul 07, 2006, 04:50 AM // 04:50

i was wonderin' what type of dmg the Faction pets do... primarily the Phoenix

i'm sorry if i missed the section in the guide... but i just couldn't find the info

Epinephrine · Jul 07, 2006, 01:54 PM // 13:54

Sorry Valerius, we haven't gotten to testing that yet. I'm not even done the game :P I have 5 characters all to about Unwaking Waters now...

volsungxiii · Jul 07, 2006, 08:34 PM // 20:34

Thanks! I always appreciate the time it takes to create guides, especially one of this size. You've answered all my questions about pets, and believe me I had many

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XvArchonvX · Jul 09, 2006, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Somehow I have missed this guide up until now, but I must say that this is likely the best community given guide I have ever seen. While I thought beast mastery had been covered pretty well from guides like the one on the main GWGuru page, this truly exceeds it. I commend both of you on your hard work.

kilo1501 · Jul 11, 2006, 10:27 PM // 22:27

I think I found a good place to train your pet for cantha born characters.
The minister cho's estate mission mostly has foes that only do close up damage and are mainly lvl 8 which is good for newly captured pets. Though there are some elementalist and some ritualist (5 or 6 out of them all) most of them are warriors but over all It is easy to keep the damage off of your pet in this place.

EDIT: ok I caught a phoenix and leveled it to level 11 and the name didnt change and i thought that it was unevolved(which is good) and then finally i got it to lv 14 and it became playful.... That made me really mad. What is up with that!?

Juicey Shake · Jul 12, 2006, 04:47 AM // 04:47

I used to level pets to 11 off of minotaur and then EoE bomb grawl until it became 20.. at 15 it always became dire..

this worked with a phoenix, too.. now I tried 4 times with a white tiger, every time it became aggressive at 11 and then elder at 15 :\.. finally just went and capped a lvl 15 dire [orange] tiger, but I wanted a white tiger

, anyone else know how eoe bombing effects pet levelling?

my friend and I sync levelled pets together a long time ago [lynxs], his was playful, mine aggressive.. he'd aggro up a ton of grawl, I'd lay down an EoE, he'd echo cyclone axe and spam until they died and poof, EoE bomb.. mine became dire, his hearty...

does the whirling defense damage not register as me dealing damage?.. if so, why did it not act like that 3, 5 months ago?

Seiten Taisei · Jul 16, 2006, 10:25 AM // 10:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linkusmax

Heres My Pet Pheonix Krijgsleider, probably not the best light to show off his plumage though.

It reminds me of a peacock

Seiten Taisei · Jul 16, 2006, 10:31 AM // 10:31

Following the Guide and mixing both Tyria and Cantha skills i managed to make my get my White Tiger to evolve to Aggressive to Dire

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Congrats on making such a awesome guide.

evox the evil · Jul 16, 2006, 02:12 PM // 14:12

that guide was very well put together. two thumbs up! now that i know where to gert a 20 crab, im off to get a lvl 20 pet without the work

narud · Jul 17, 2006, 10:14 PM // 22:14

under the spider part you said they are rewards from certain quests. could someone tell me what quests these are.

Reginald Price · Jul 27, 2006, 04:31 PM // 16:31

I really had to laugh... I have used your guide and made several Pets for my R/m, R/m, and one Ele/R. All of which turned out Dire, so i changed one of my other Ele/m into a Ele/r, and decided to get a dire pet for this one too. I did all the above things that made my pet dire for the other characters, got to 11 and he went to aggressive, and then when he got to 15 he went to elder. I just sat there and laughed, because before, I read thru the reports of the others who had done the same thing and thought how could they not get a dire pet, if they just followed the directions. Well, how funny, it doesn't always work, but hey what the heck, it is still the best guide i have read in a long time, and it has worked all but this one time for me, so if you follow the directions and something like this happens, just remember that it does, so just start over and make another. This has still been the best way now that you can get a dire pet. And mine kick butt. Love the dire pets, and how well they do damage. Especially in combo with your skills....

Thanks you guys for a well written guide..

SnipiousMax · Jul 28, 2006, 07:37 PM // 19:37

Jeno/Epin, is there a Marksman Guide like this floating around somewhere?

RuPee · Aug 04, 2006, 07:16 AM // 07:16

very nice guide! the excel graphs were awesome. i would have never thought of looking for the standard deviation of pet attacks lol.

after my pet reached aggressive at level 11 with the ice tooth minotaurs . i continued to level up at elona reach minotaurs until it reached dire at level 15 for even faster levelling.

Shai Lee · Aug 04, 2006, 08:41 PM // 20:41

Thank you so much for making this guide and for all the time you've spent in researching pets.

I made a new ranger the other day, and decided that I wanted a dire pet, as opposed to the usual hearty that I end up with. I used the R/Me build that was posted, and leveled my pet up in Ice Tooth and then for a bit in Elona.

Ice Tooth (lvl 11 Agressive) Elona (lvl 15 Dire)

I want to be able to raise dire pets for my ranger secondaries as well, and wondered if those builds could be posted, if possible?

Thank you so much.

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huffpl · Aug 05, 2006, 12:40 AM // 00:40

Very Good Guide so Kudos to Janosanel and Epinephrine.

That being said, I dont know if anyone else has mentioned because i didnt read all the post. And I offer my Ingame name (Valas Greywolf) to come and see what im talking about if either of you two would like to see.

I have an unevolved lvl 11 bear ( i know the worst pet to have but i like him). He has a skill called Brutal Mauling that goes off every 4 - 6 secs. Again i offer my name so u can come see for yourself. I appologize if this has already been brought up but i figured for educational purposes you would like to investigate this phenomenon.

PM me any time.

Makkert · Aug 05, 2006, 05:15 AM // 05:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by huffpl

Very Good Guide so Kudos to Janosanel and Epinephrine.

That being said, I dont know if anyone else has mentioned because i didnt read all the post. And I offer my Ingame name (Valas Greywolf) to come and see what im talking about if either of you two would like to see.

I have an unevolved lvl 11 bear ( i know the worst pet to have but i like him). He has a skill called Brutal Mauling that goes off every 4 - 6 secs. Again i offer my name so u can come see for yourself. I appologize if this has already been brought up but i figured for educational purposes you would like to investigate this phenomenon.

PM me any time.

the Brutal Mauling doesn't do anything as a skill. it was brought up several times before. I seem to recall people mentioning it used to do something, but the effect was removed later by devs.

leeky baby · Aug 08, 2006, 10:06 PM // 22:06

thnaxs guys ino which pet im gunna get now

Ugly_Jim · Aug 21, 2006, 10:50 PM // 22:50

To anyone wanting a dire pet quickly, try the pongmei valley trick. I got a level 15 dire tiger in only seven runs from boreas seabed.

Epinephrine · Aug 22, 2006, 01:39 PM // 13:39

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Originally Posted by Shai Lee

I want to be able to raise dire pets for my ranger secondaries as well, and wondered if those builds could be posted, if possible?

Thank you so much.

~

Well, the essence is the same; protect pet and allow it to deal damage.

For a monk/ranger it's trivially easy, as you have all the tools to survive built in - as a bonus, symbiotic bond triggers Balthazar's Spirit, as does Life Bond, so you can be cutting damage to the pet by 25%, Call of Protection absorbs the rest, and you gain 2 energy per attack on the pet.

For a mesmer/ranger I used Distortion with Spirit of Failure; this allowed me to tank the minos pretty well while maintaining evasion, and kept my energy up for Ether Feast and so on. Same idea for pet skills, took a while.

For an elementalist you have great armour spells available, so you can get by with those pretty much, and even a small amount of wilderness survival gets enough Troll Unguent to keep your health up.

For a necromancer I'm not sure what the best tactic would be; probably involving Enfeebling Blood and Shadow of Fear, as they reduce incoming damage so much; for a self heal I don't know what the best skill is; maybe even predatory bond with parasitic bonds?

A warrior/ranger has an easy time with tacics providing stances and a self heal, and thick armoor making tankin for your pet a simple matter.

Haven't experimented with assassin/ritualist pet raising at all really. I assume that a ritualist could in fact provide an amazing amount of protection to the pet in the form of spammed Union for example; Another option is to keep all the enemy blinded with skills like Weapon of shadow or Rupture Soul; the protection of Union should add to the Call of Protection, and potentially could absorb pretty much all the damage directed at the pet (with symbitotic bond?). The theory is the same in all cases though; let the pet deal damage, take damage yourself - keeping the pet clear of damage is important.