Curse

pingu666 · Mar 06, 2007, 04:40 AM // 04:40

ive had a silly idea todo with pets. pets are reasonable tanks, and i thought, hmm what would happen if i had 8 pets in a party. that would be some good tankage and okish damage..., and a giggle atleast.

so, ive death leveled a bunch of pets for my rangers heros, and that of a friends paragon (actully only one..). mostly level 20 and dire

so now ive gotta make up some builds for the heros and myself to take advantage of all the pets.

skills ive identified of use..

go for the eyes, with upto 20! physicals on the team, this just cant be left out

Otyugh's Cry, one of us two will carry this, so as to save skill slots on the rest of the party

barbs to increase dps

. chuck that on a SS olias

Mark of Pain again on olias

Dwaynas Sorrow should work well with so many expendable allies

im looking to put about 8 into beastmastery for most of the heros

the end result should hopefully be 8 400~health, 100al tanks, a fleshwall

. with a MM olias (upto 9 minions) and koss and meloni, thats 4 party physicals, plus 8 pets, plus 8-9 minions for about 20 physicals

also when pets die, they dont reset the hero's skill bar, so no need to worry about that.

do you guys have any suggestions?

. im still not sure how well itll turn out

going tobe using this teambuild to progress thru elona, but will probably pug a fair bit too...

Amy Awien · Mar 06, 2007, 08:25 AM // 08:25

I had a similar tought and have a few heroes with pets - not entirley leveled up yet - and even with just 4 pets it's already funny. Keep in mind that hero healers will heal pets, you may want to skip Comfort Animal on a few heroes in favor of Call of Protection and bring Revive on the player chars.

jesh · Mar 07, 2007, 07:22 AM // 07:22

Armor level scales with BM scores, last time I checked. I haven't checked in a while, though.

Also with 8 pets and Mark of Pain, you'll likely find SS to be useless. Everything will be dead. I would think you'd get more damage out of a MM with around 8ish curses and 10 bone fiends to add to the Mark of Pain activations. Let's say you have 3 party members that deal physical damage.
3+8(pets)+10(fiends)=21 activations from Mark of Pain in the first 2 seconds of battle.
8 curses = 26 damage per activation
26*21=546 damage = dead mob

Alternately, you could use your necro at 16(18) curses solely for Mark of Pain, and bring the ritualist hero for a Splinter Weapon at 16 Channeling.

Gustin · Mar 07, 2007, 09:18 PM // 21:18

wow, this is the best idea i've ever seen, lol. i really should give this a shot. go from an 8 man team to a 16 man/beast team. kill everything lol.

soySauceNR1ce · Mar 07, 2007, 11:28 PM // 23:28

lol wonder how much lag it will cause if u have 8 pets 8 ppl and a necro with mm lol

lennymon · Mar 08, 2007, 12:06 AM // 00:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by jesh

Armor level scales with BM scores, last time I checked. I haven't checked in a while, though.

Also with 8 pets and Mark of Pain, you'll likely find SS to be useless. Everything will be dead. I would think you'd get more damage out of a MM with around 8ish curses and 10 bone fiends to add to the Mark of Pain activations. Let's say you have 3 party members that deal physical damage.
3+8(pets)+10(fiends)=21 activations from Mark of Pain in the first 2 seconds of battle.
8 curses = 26 damage per activation
26*21=546 damage = dead mob

Alternately, you could use your necro at 16(18) curses solely for Mark of Pain, and bring the ritualist hero for a Splinter Weapon at 16 Channeling.

1: wrong, armor level is set with pet level, only pet damage scales with BM... always has been like that too
2: everything else, spot on ;P

edit: 3: additionally it should be noted that due to pet 'AI' (note use of quotes) the same spells/effects which you point out correctly the pets can abuse are also the pet teams weakness. AOE, SS...

and

Quote:

Originally Posted by soySauceNR1ce

lol wonder how much lag it will cause if u have 8 pets 8 ppl and a necro with mm lol

not too bad, go on a b/p tombs run

the worms cause more lag than anything the team brings

pingu666 · Mar 08, 2007, 12:21 AM // 00:21

hopefully have the teambuild ready for when we get round todoing venta cemitary.

pretty sure SS will still be useful, but not the most important thing by far as it is in a normal (team)build

theres even a bunch of handy wanding sunspears to help your along

Duke Bonebreaker · Mar 16, 2007, 12:55 AM // 00:55

Yea ill have to try it out. Sounds good.