What pet

Discussion in 'Casters' started by Inady, Jul 18, 2017.

  1. Inady Lorekeeper

    Hi all 105 mage here who only tends to four box, group make up is all 105s ranger shammy warrior and mage, questions is what pet should I use at present I mainly use an earth pet advice please and thank you in advance
  2. Phrovo1 Augur

    I imagine your ranger hates it when you use an earth pet
  3. Sancus Augur

    I'm assuming you're using the warrior to tank, so I think a water pet would be the best/obvious answer for most content.
  4. fransisco Augur

    If you have another tank, use water
    If you expect to sometimes tank an add ect use air
  5. Cicelee Augur

    Monster summoning $$$$$
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  6. Lheo Augur

    Earthpet is always a good choice (can tank every group named in eok-with good aa )
    when you dont need it to tank use a waterpet as rogue :)
  7. menown Augur

    If you were a necro, I would have said the opposite. Rogue pet only does a few hundred more DPS, but has like 50k less hp. Warrior pet is always the best choice.
  8. Scornfire The Nimbus Prince

    A few hundred? Mine does about 60% more damage than the warrior pet
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  9. menown Augur

    I guess I was relying on older data. Here is what I parsed out for the necro pets. EM 24 vs Lvl 110 390 AC parse dummy. Only buff was Sigil of the Doomscale Rk. III.

    Warrior pet (max hit 7,374)
    /GU Combat Dummy Vena in 1802s, 13482k @7482 --- Shennron 13482k

    Rogue pet (max hit 8,450)
    /GU Combat Dummy Vena in 1603s, 14277k @8907 --- Shennron 14277k

    Rogue pet w/ 2x Combine Dagger (max hit 41,097)
    /GU Combat Dummy Vena in 1804s, 20295k @11250 --- Shennron 20295k

    Rogue pet w/ 2x Combine Dagger from behind (max hit 41,097)
    /GU Combat Dummy Vena in 602s, 7928k @13170 --- Shennron 7928k

    *As a side not, I never carry along weapons for my pets. They end up dying on raids or from me doing something stupid.
  10. Scornfire The Nimbus Prince

    I'd consider making some ethernere traveler or dimensional warrior gear for your pet to assist in it's survivability (as well as boost it's DPS). Here's some parsing I did a while back w/ regards to our rogue pet. I rarely have mine die on a raid unless I'm being brain-dead and let it eat rampage

    http://forums.eqfreelance.net/index.php?topic=4396.0

    Obviously impossible circumstance re: ADPS, but I can get my pet doing fairly respectable dps on an event if I can snag a NET from a chanty and use his burns properly.
  11. Piemastaj Augur

    Issue is, pets lag on raids. Combat dummy dps is almost always higher than on actual raids. You can see it clear as day in some of the Triton videos. Very hard to get accurate data with the way pets are functioning in raids currently.

    A good portion of events my pet parses lower in full burn than it does self buffed on a dummy. It is really dumb this issue keeps coming back...
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  12. menown Augur

    I agree! On raid parses, my pet does like half the DPS that it does to a Combat dummy. I even stopped rotating in my swarm spell in my lineup because after I parsed them on a raid encounter a few months back, their dps was way less than what they did on a Combat dummy.
  13. fransisco Augur

    I've been noticing this same lag in the group game lately - on mercs as well.

    Everything is taking longer to respond now.
  14. Brohg Augur

    This is wholly unrelated to the phenomenon Piemastaj references.
  15. fransisco Augur

    is it?
    Mercs and pets responding slower?
    The only difference is the situation.
  16. Brohg Augur

    This is wholly unrelated to the phenomenon Piemastaj references.
  17. Piemastaj Augur

    Responding slower, and lagging are different. Responding slower might cause the pet to take an extra 1-2 seconds to attack.

    The lag I was referring to is when your pet is attacking the target (actually meleeing it) then all of a sudden for 12 seconds the pet does nothing at all while it still should be in attack mode. This problem was around back in Veil of Alaris, and it got so bad to the point Aristo buffed Mage spells and gave us our clicky pet nukes to offset the issue of pets doing literally 1/5th of their DPS for no reason. This also did start up back when the servers themselves were incredibly laggy, once those got fixed pets came back around.

    I sent this, a long with other examples, to the devs a month ago:

    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:19 2017] Boss slashes Gorenaire for 21409 points of damage.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:21 2017] Boss focuses on the second spire of the minstrels.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:22 2017] Boss is cleansed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:25 2017] Boss speeds up to match the beat of the music.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:25 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:25 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:25 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:28 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:28 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:28 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:28 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:28 2017] Boss is healed.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:29 2017] Boss's mental powers are restored by a powerful word.
    [Sun Jun 11 21:23:30 2017] Boss slashes Gorenaire for 14594 points of damage.
  18. fransisco Augur

    wow, thats gross :(
  19. Sancus Augur

    I just found this one, one of my personal favorites (slight off topic bump, but):

    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:12 2017] Puksu tells you, 'Attacking The Incarnate Droga Master.'
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:15 2017] Puksu is filled with stolen energies!
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:16 2017] Puksu is surrounded by a holy light.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:16 2017] Puksu is soothed by Brell's Soothing Wave.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:17 2017] Puksu begins to regenerate as they are washed in a celestial glow .
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:18 2017] Puksu glows with holy light.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:24 2017] Puksu is consumed by Illusions of Grandeur.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:25 2017] Puksu is strengthened by magic.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:31 2017] Puksu is soothed by Brell's Soothing Wave.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:35 2017] Puksu is surrounded by a holy light.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:35 2017] Puksu is soothed by Brell's Soothing Wave.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:35 2017] Puksu is surrounded by a holy light.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:35 2017] Puksu is soothed by Brell's Soothing Wave.
    [Sun Jul 30 22:27:36 2017] Puksu scores a critical hit! (22200)

    Took 24s from telling the pet to attack to take the first swing. But not broken at all.

    FWIW this is (technically) an extreme case of responding slower, but pretty obviously caused by the same lag that stops them from swinging.
  20. Cicelee Augur

    What is gross is the names of your pets!!!

    O and that pet damage delay lag thing too. But the names!!! Goodness!!!