Hopefully the new information gleaned from all this testing will be useful, and will settle many debates about pet functionality and usefulness.ġ) Acquiring a pet: The Charm Animal skill. The community has provided insights into many of the issues in this guide, and we of course thank the pet loving community for the time and energy put into pet related posting.
Of course, the support of our guild (Servants of Fortuna!) through testing has been invaluable, with much time donated to our efforts and help with finding appropriate testing areas. A big thanks to Daegul Mistweaver for his help with damage values on various foes, which helped kick start the true damage testing I look forward to your treatise on damage. Rather than wait till the end, we’d like to make some acknowledgments to start with: Thanks to Dragon Incarnate for the original Ultimate Pet Guide, the first work of its kind, and to Valerius for his role in maintaining Dragon Incarnate’s work in the more recently updated pet guide. Please bear in mind that guides may become out of date and take into account the publication date of the guide – subsequent patches may well change aspects of the guide. To ensure the data is correct, nearly every element has been tested and notes on the testing techniques and data are available through the footnotes, so that suspect data/conclusions can be identified.
While other guides have been written on the subject they have in the past been full of speculation and not been rigorously tested, as well as lacking in completeness. This guide is an attempt to answer all questions about pets and provide the fullest explanations regarding pets, pet use, and pet attributes.
Why consider a pet? What builds can use a pet, and what level of investment is useful? How do you up the effectiveness of a pet? Where do you get a pet? The Pet Guide – by Jenosavel and Epinephrine