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Thread: Another High Level Tank
MH/MH/MH/MH/SVH; Where MH=Merek Harvester and SVH is Slinking Voritor Hunter
I ended up with a level 58 pet, 12.5k HAM, 60% kinetic, light armor, cripple/dizzy specials, and (around) 480-490 damage.
I put this in a Gurreck skin for the speed -- how does that compare? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Thakkata
Master BE, Shadowfire
Message Edited by TribbleMaster on 11-23-2004 11:27 AM
There isn't really much demand for level 58 pets unfortunately. For high level pets your target customer is master creature handlers, and a master creature handler is mainlygoing to want something close to his limit (CL 70) or down at a level where he can wield 2 or 3 very strong pets (CL 20-40).
Another comment I'd make is about the VHQ sample thing. Using VHQ samples doesn't assure a better pet. In fact, for example, you'd get better health using a AA quality sample of a merek harvester that had higher health than a VHQ sample of one with lower health. The only time it is important to use VHQ samples is in the mental or psych slots if you are trying to get a ranged attack to stick, or in the aggression slot if you are trying to get both specials to stick. Other than that, a VHQ is very unimportant.
As far as your pet goes, that's very high damage and HAM for that CL, particularly considering it's armored. So that pet is fairly optimal for hunting certain things. The specials are nothing to write home about though (more popular specials include poison, intimidate, blind, and stun). Also, in general, I favor giving mid-to-high level pets at least some energy resist because that is very useful fending off ranged attacks, but that is somewhat of a tradeoff and not every customer wants that.
TribbleMaster wrote:
I've been master for just a couple of days now, so I'm still learning my trade, but I was experimenting last night and came up with this recipe (all VHQ samples)...
MH/MH/MH/MH/SVH; Where MH=Merek Harvester and SVH is Slinking Voritor Hunter
I ended up with a level 58 pet, 12.5k HAM, 60% kinetic, light armor, cripple/dizzy specials, and (around) 480-490 damage.
I put this in a Gurreck skin for the speed -- how does that compare? Any suggestions?
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
As far as your pet goes, that's very high damage and HAM for that CL, particularly considering it's armored. So that pet is fairly optimal for hunting certain things. The specials are nothing to write home about though (more popular specials include poison, intimidate, blind, and stun). Also, in general, I favor giving mid-to-high level pets at least some energy resist because that is very useful fending off ranged attacks, but that is somewhat of a tradeoff and not every customer wants that.
TribbleMaster wrote:
I've been master for just a couple of days now, so I'm still learning my trade, but I was experimenting last night and came up with this recipe (all VHQ samples)...
MH/MH/MH/MH/SVH; Where MH=Merek Harvester and SVH is Slinking Voritor Hunter
I ended up with a level 58 pet, 12.5k HAM, 60% kinetic, light armor, cripple/dizzy specials, and (around) 480-490 damage.
I put this in a Gurreck skin for the speed -- how does that compare? Any suggestions?
To echo Arthur, thebiggest drawback of using MH is the energy vuln it sticks on your pet. Now, I suggest Young Malkloc Plainswalker for everything, so I might sound like a broken record, but you could try YMPW-YMPW-YMPW-YMPW-SVH. I bet you'd have a comparable pet at a lower CL (because YMPW vulns a lot of the less useful/CL bloating resists). Just don't stick a VHQ sample in mental or aggression slots--otherwise you might wind up with a single special pet. Or, if you wanted to sacrifice a little health, substituting one of the surefoot brackaset-prowling gurreck-grassland voritor tracker troika in the aggression slot would up your energy resist a little (mid 40s instead of low 40s maybe) and still probably be able to edge fortitude over 500 for light armor, if you have high fortitude YMPW samples (565 or more, say...).
Or you could...well, the fun is in fiddling around, so I won't deprive you of that, nor will I pretend to see all the possibilities. Go nuts, have fun.