Enchanter pet questions

[Swish]

I was the cleric that Propo duo'ed with, its a fact I'm afraid Froglok.

Later on, a cleric to complete heal the pet (and enchanter) is invaluable and arguably the greatest duo for XP rate on the server. If you happen to go somewhere with undead, a full mana cleric can also turn wizard with his undead nukes should he find himself able to [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Pyrion]

Originally Posted by Peck80 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wow, this is great stuff guys. Far and away better than I was hoping for even. Thanks so much for all the great feedback. Now I just need to pound out a couple more levels to get to 12!



Just to be clear, tash lowers magic resistance, so this is done to ensure your charm hits home correct? Thanks again!

A charmed pet every so often gets another try to break charm. If it has MR lowered this try is more likely to fail, resulting in a longer charm duration. So always keep MR of pet as low as possible. Landing a charm is no problem even without tash, keeping it is the problem.

[A1551]

Originally Posted by A1551 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Experiment complete :P

So 100% confirmed there is no experience penalty in groups. Thanks to options the necro for assistance, and Hyasinth for heroing my lvl 1 pet. We both made brand new level ones (enchanters cuz apparently lvl 1 mages dont get pets who knew!?)

We did a few kills with him (no pet) killing level one mobs grouped with me, with him doing 100% of damage -- 5 or 6% per kill (due to rounding on duxaui display). Then we had my chanter animation solo some stuff doing 100% damage -- I did zero damage by finding decaying skellies who would just attack me and let pet do rest. Also got either 5 or 6% exp per kill. That's pretty much it right there -- grouped exp penalties for pets do not exist, even if pet does 100% of the damage. I also tried a few times just doing one hit on mob and letting pet do rest for sake of thoroughness -- 5 or 6% per kill.

Finally, I degrouped and tried soloing just to confirm the solo penalty is 50%, as sometimes Ive been told things like "it's actually 75% not 50%." Being solo and letting pet do 100% of damage -- once again netted me either 5 or 6% per kill. This makes perfect sense, as instead of splitting the exp with Options lvl 1 I was splitting it with my pet. Next, I dumped my pet and soloed some level ones -- lo and behold exactly 11% per kill.

To summarize -- there is no pet exp penalty in groups in any way, shape or form, even if pet does 100% of the damage.

-Propo Fol

[A1551]

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

That's either a bug or the wiki is wrong. Need a dev to confirm this.

It wouldn't be the first time the wiki was wrong, even regarding direct quotes from patch notes. It could also be a bug/oversight that the devs aren't aware of, or more likely just don't care about enough to waste time fixing instead of working on more important things (ie velious! Or raid changes <3)

I don't believe the pet exp penalty implementation here is classic, in fact I believe it is more strict/less pet friendly than we were on a classic timeline. Or so I've heard on the forums (which, well, could be wrong too) Certainly making pet classes less group friendly seems pointless, especially if it wasn't actually a classic mechanic. Who knows, maybe one patch day there'll be a lot of sad clerics & enchanters out there.