Advice on White Dragon Tooth

[duneadx]

Hello-
I recently came into possession of a "White Dragon Tooth" which allows you to right click and summon a lvl 49 necro pet, 1 charge, no level restrictions. I was wondering if anyone has had previous experiences with where they used theirs, methods they used while the pet was active, or basically just any advice they can give to a player who is contemplating where/how to use theirs. I intend on starting a brand new character, either druid or shaman for this. Any advice or tips would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank You

[Cujoy]

get another so you can vender recharge imo!

[beentheredonethat]

If i understand correctly, use it once and it's done, not rechargeable. so i wouldn't really put that my faith into this item.

the pet is 30ish so with that in mind i'd probably just use it at 20 something....

[God-King Abacab]

That pet can mess up spectres pretty well, if you pace yourself or have healer assistance you could grind pretty hard.

Otherwise, I'd just pop it in guk/dalnirs and go to town

[Dentalplan]

Use it to PL an evil character that isn't KoS at the Overthere outpost. OT has a huge range of mob levels so you can start with the lower level stuff near the fort and work your way to the higher level stuff. Plus, if you get in trouble you can drag your pet back to the guards or golems. Buffs are always going to be a plus, and I'd recommend those lifetap proccing staves from Kaesora as well for pet heals.

[Bubbles]

Buy all your spells ahead of time, get a high level toon to 'pull' for you..

Set up shop in Mistmoore during off-peak hours.. completely destroy pond + graveyard ( with friend pulling singles). While unrest is a popular spot, it can only get you to 40.. Mistmoore can probably get you to 50, with a puller, once you start heading into the castle area.

[necrosaurio]

I love your signature. That's from MegaMan, isn't it?

That pet can mess up spectres pretty well, if you pace yourself or have healer assistance you could grind pretty hard.

Otherwise, I'd just pop it in guk/dalnirs and go to town

[duneadx]

Thank you all so much for the advice, I probably will be doing this on my own so I was trying to avoid using anyone else having to pull to me or assist me on this one. As for grinding in OT and running back to outpost, I like that idea, but i'll be playing a druid or a shaman, and I think that pretty much eliminates using the guards to help me as a possibility if im not mistaken.

[Samoht]

druids are good/neutral, so they're out of the question

but shamans are neutral/evil, so if you're an evil shaman (troll, ogre, iksar), you should be OK

[God-King Abacab]

Thank you all so much for the advice, I probably will be doing this on my own so I was trying to avoid using anyone else having to pull to me or assist me on this one. As for grinding in OT and running back to outpost, I like that idea, but i'll be playing a druid or a shaman, and I think that pretty much eliminates using the guards to help me as a possibility if im not mistaken.

Then go to a midlevel dungeon and just heal your pet as it murders stuff

[Nuggie]

remember to do 1 pt of dmg to every mob so you get the full exp.

[Autotune]

Buy all your spells ahead of time, get a high level toon to 'pull' for you..

Set up shop in Mistmoore during off-peak hours.. completely destroy pond + graveyard ( with friend pulling singles). While unrest is a popular spot, it can only get you to 40.. Mistmoore can probably get you to 50, with a puller, once you start heading into the castle area.

If you got a friend, do this.

If you don't got no friends. Go to unrest if you are sure of yourself and know what to do. If you aren't sure of yourself, make evil shaman and go to OT and do that method.

Only other place i can think of would be Permafrost Keep.

[duneadx]

Thank you all for such great advice, I will take all of it into account and post the results when it's all said and done.

[Casey]

I had a similar situation. I took it to Unrest and regret it very much.

I was trained three or four times and my pet died. What a waste.

[Autotune]

I had a similar situation. I took it to Unrest and regret it very much.

I was trained three or four times and my pet died. What a waste.

you need to go on off hours, much like people do for other forms of powerleveling.

[Knuckle]

I had a similar situation. I took it to Unrest and regret it very much.

I was trained three or four times and my pet died. What a waste.

if i could go back in time id do it again

[beentheredonethat]

i wouldn't go for a shaman, shaman gets their own pet and your WDT will be useless in the 30's since you can only have one pet.

If I were you I'd go with a monk for this. If you aggro something in a pull you can feign it off and monk with a pet is very devastating duo. you'll fly through levels in OT or permafrost this way. Just get a couple of wu trance sticks or kd's and you'll be set.

[Dr4z3r]

remember to do 1 pt of dmg to every mob so you get the full exp.

[duneadx]

For those of you who helped me out on this, here was the final outcome:
Barbarian Shaman ( lvl 7 - 44 ) Total Grind Time: 15 hours (give or take)
First off I want to thank all of you for your helpful advice, it definitely came into use on more then one occasion. I went with OT as the zone of choice for the clicky pet, gave him the DW lifetap staves, and was just overall extremely careful with my choices on what to pull. Being a shaman made this infinitely easier then it would have been say if I were a melee class. With a lot of kiting, and slow pulling mobs, the skeleton pet was able to handle cockatrice/sabertooth/succulents/rhinos and sarnaks, all without losing about 1-5% hp a pull. There is a safe ledge on the left side of the ramp facing FM that you can run up on and park your skelly pet to leave him on overnight without fear of them getting agro. Make sure you do NOT park him on the RIGHT side facing FM entrance, as a friend of mine told me he ran by watching my skeleton fighting a wanderer around 4am :p The pet begins to go yellow at around 39-40, and it turned out that my clicky pet ended up being level 41. By the end it certainly felt more like playing a necromancer then being PLd by a pet!
Overall it was a great experience, a little tense, but effective, and I would recommend it to anyone who can get their hands on the clicky pet. Thank you for all your help Glaurung, Sylene, Zort, and Aguy!

[pickled_heretic]

For those of you who helped me out on this, here was the final outcome:
Barbarian Shaman ( lvl 7 - 44 ) Total Grind Time: 15 hours (give or take)
First off I want to thank all of you for your helpful advice, it definitely came into use on more then one occasion. I went with OT as the zone of choice for the clicky pet, gave him the DW lifetap staves, and was just overall extremely careful with my choices on what to pull. Being a shaman made this infinitely easier then it would have been say if I were a melee class. With a lot of kiting, and slow pulling mobs, the skeleton pet was able to handle cockatrice/sabertooth/succulents/rhinos and sarnaks, all without losing about 1-5% hp a pull. There is a safe ledge on the left side of the ramp facing FM that you can run up on and park your skelly pet to leave him on overnight without fear of them getting agro. Make sure you do NOT park him on the RIGHT side facing FM entrance, as a friend of mine told me he ran by watching my skeleton fighting a wanderer around 4am :p The pet begins to go yellow at around 39-40, and it turned out that my clicky pet ended up being level 41. By the end it certainly felt more like playing a necromancer then being PLd by a pet!
Overall it was a great experience, a little tense, but effective, and I would recommend it to anyone who can get their hands on the clicky pet. Thank you for all your help Glaurung, Sylene, Zort, and Aguy!

very cool. i am green with envy!

[Ulivar]

since we are on the topic already any idea how much these (red/white dragon tooths) go for? doesn't seem theres an entry on the p99wiki for them

[bonehand]

Nice writeup, but SS's or it didn't happen =P

All joking aside, that's a good jump in 15 hours of grinding solo....and OT was the best choice for that range...nowhere else is as safe to go from your teens to your upper 30's. Everything runs, and all the mob paths are fairly predicable - worst thing in zone is the guard if you are kos but the easy escape is stay away from the whole zone wall from the outpost all the way up to FM like you did...

I had a nice PL spot on live that doesn't match up with p99's pathing as a tigress came strolling through and killed the newbie while I was pulling, but I think there are fewer mobs in OT here anyway. Probably could have found an all-night AFK spot right in the middle of the zone...another safe all night spot is south of the WW zone up the wall from the sarnak tower. Nothing but a cactus ever climbs up past the trees.

Grats on the fine use of that tooth!

[skulldudes]

i hate you so much op

[duneadx]

LOL I'm sorry skulldudes! For those of you who were interested in getting a dragon tooth for yourself, they can run anywhere from 10,000-15,000p per, and the two deadwood staves will run you roughly 600p for the pair(HIGHLY RECOMMENDED).

[Daldaen]

Can they be recharged via vendor trick or do they not vendor/are expendable?

[duneadx]

I believe mine poofed upon use.

[raptorak]

It certainly did happen! I saw a female barbarian shaman (won't disclose name here) running around madly with a skeleton pet and was like WTF when did shamans get necro pets? OP very kindly answered my noobie questions and also gave sow and regen to my group on several occasions, effectively powerlevelling us (warrior, warrior, and me as Aguy the enc :P no healers about so was a massive help to have OP there!).

A few casts of clarity later and she went *poof* (must've logged), but it happened!

[bunnymuffin]

i took the advice and used my white tooth in OT on a lvl 8 chanter. 2 deadwood staves, a muzzle, and got all my spells ahead of time. in lvl 8 i was getting 20 - 50% a kill fighting outside the OT fort. i got up to lvl 18 and my pet warped into the floor and disappeared. Bummer!!! but was an easy 10 lvls. if i get another tooth i'll do OT again for sure and hope to death i don't have a bad luck pet this time, thanks for all the advice in this thread!
-Froovy