Mage pet damage info?

[guineapig]

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

As of now on P99, giving a pet a weapon serves only 2 purposes:

1) force dual wield (as no pets innately DW anymore)
2) a desired proc

weapons do not effect a pets swing delay, or damage.

Fairly certain my level 55 animation dual wields.
It definitely should, considering it's holding 2 swords when summoned.

[quellren]

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

Fairly certain my level 55 animation dual wields.
It definitely should, considering it's holding 2 swords when summoned.

Hey, I'm going by the April 17 patch notes:

Kanras: Pets will no longer automatically dual wield at a certain level.

and my personal observations that the 49 and 53 necro pets do not innately Dual wield.

I can't say what your enchanter pet does or doesn't do.

[renegadeofunk]

Thanks for all the help! I read somewhere about pets being able to use weapon damage if it was higher than their innate, but I guess that's not classic or something. I found that wiki page with the pet damage and its correct for my unfocused level 16 fire pet, at least.

[baalzy]

pets using weapon damage IS classic, it's just not implemented here. It's on the list of things to do when everything higher in priority is done.

Theres a post about it by one of the devs.

"Originally Posted by Haynar
I don't care how much anyone whines. Pet delays will not be lowered, if the weapon has a lower delay. But enough about that.

Pets using the damage from a 2h ... absolutely. This was like that well into PoP at least. I think it was in PoP that I leveled my first mage, and was awesome having a level 3 pet, hitting for 50+, using some junk weapon from velious. I am pretty sure the delay was unaffected, not positive. But the pet would hit for up to double the weapon damage.

Is it classic? Well, I think live is still like that. So is that classic? Not so much, it was just how it was, and is on live still.

Am I going to change it? I am not in a hurry to make pets tougher.

H"

[bigups43]

So do mage pets dual wield at 24 or no? Because I just hit 24, and Im stoked to find this out.

[baalzy]

I think a higher spectrum lvl 24 mage pet will dual wield, but it will need 2 weapons to be given to it for that to happen.

At 29 they'll definitely be dual wielding. To test just give it weapons of diff dmg types (piercing/slashing), if you see it using both of those dmg types then you'll know its dual wielding.

[renegadeofunk]

Learned something interesting last night, my level 20 fire pet could DW after I gave it 2 summoned daggers. It was the high end pet, didn't test it on other levels but I'll probably do that tonight for science.

[Curmudgen]

Renegadeofunk, try equipping it with one summoned staff and one summoned dagger and see what the hits say. My bet is it will only show main hand results.

[Schortt]

This site has more info on mage pets than the wiki and is probably where most of the watered down stuff on the wiki pet guide came from:

http://www.xalmat.com/eqsummoners.co...s-library.html

I found it to be accurate while leveling up my mage last fall. It doesn't include info about the DW change, but otherwise is pretty good.

[baalzy]

As Curmudgen said, test with a staff/sword. You can give a lvl 4 pet 2 weapons and it will hold both of them, but only swing one. Fairly certain the level 20 pet isn't actually hitting with both hands.