Mages, let pets kill or do 51%?

[Balimon]

Originally Posted by Kich867 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Heya, managed to convince a friend of mine to join P99, he's playin a mage.

He's level 12 now, just got his new spells. How much do you guys just say fuck it and let those little ballers slap shit for you and how much do you try to take the 51% for full xp?

So far, it seems like to us its simpler/faster to just let the pet kill shit and eat the 50% xp loss.

Also, feel like I've seen differing opinions on this of water vs fire pets for soloing. One guide says bluntly that fire pets are terrible and you should just use water pets when soloing, but the natural DS on the fire pet and nukes seems nice? And I've seen some sentiment that maybe later on the DS carries a bit harder and its easier to get 51% of the XP since the DS is neutral damage.

Up to level 20/24 it's fine to just kill fast and eat the loss you won't notice it as much. Past that you will definitely want to get all the exp and it's easy to reclaim the pet when the mob is at 5% and nuke the remaining HP yourself.

Where did you read about water pets being best? They're literally the worst solo pet. Get a torch and a shovel and use fire and earth for solo play. Summon a torched fire pet, burnout if needed, reclaim at mob 5%, nuke, rinse repeat. Fire pets are the fastest leveling you'll see 29-55.