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I was peeking at the PUP forums. Someone was testing versus 1000 needles and their Stormwaker puppet took 476 damage. So, it sounds like our pets get a ~4.8% damage mitigation boost. Any 78+ Beastmasters care to go play with cactuars to confirm we have the same benefit? I'm still 34k exp away.

It's not a lot, but I'll take it. We are starting to rack up a good number of defensive pet gears. I am wondering how far SE is going to let us take the -% p:pdt axes; they're great.

edit: spelling

Edited, Jun 26th 2010 5:43am by Nazantia

Me too. If it was a BST testing, we'd just let the pet eat the whole thing.

Edited, Jun 26th 2010 6:54pm by louispv

Well it wasn't a suggestion, but cool.

Here's hoping for another every 10 levels.

Wearing -22% damage reduction: 742 damage. Stout Servant reduces about 3.8% in this instance.

Based on this and Endoq's test, I am going to assume that Pet: -%DmgTkn gear is applied separate from Stout Servant.

IE:

ActualDMG = ( ( IncomingDMG * ( 1 - PDTGear ) ) * ( 1 - Stout Servant ) )

or

ActualDMG = ( ( IncomingDMG * ( 1 - Stout Servant ) ) * ( 1 - PDTGear ) )

Just a rough guess. The bottom line is, the more you buff your pet in regards to damage reduction, the less Stout Servant performs. Still, I'll take any buff SE wants to give us. =/

Edited, Jun 28th 2010 11:55pm by Nazantia

Well PUP gets this trait too and I think we just got it as "wtf might as well" token gesture.

Does it affect charmed pets? That sounds like a lot of work from a coding perspective. And since PUP gets it, and everything we've gotten in years is jug only, sounds like it's BST's jug pets.

Edited, Jun 30th 2010 6:09pm by louispv

Just do some charmed pets vs cactuars. Quicksand or Altepa should work. When 1k needles triggers, note the damage your pet takes.

Ok from a quick screwing around in Altepa...
When muppet hume was in range as well (I was trying to heel/stay Carrie in the right place) 333(me)/333(Lusien's Carrie - 76 BST)/317(Cesaria's Carrie - 78 BST)
Straight split 1k needles - Cesaria's Carrie (has job trait at lvl 78) 476/Lusien's Carrie (no job trait as he's 76) 500 damage

Husband who's mathematically minded says that's just a smidgen under 5% damage reduction. Will muck around more with it later but neither character had any pet damage down gear equipped, I called Carrie without AF2 hands on both chars, the only difference merit wise is I have BST affinity merited a couple of levels on Ces.

Basically I set Carrie on a cactuar, let it knock it to under 20%, heel/stay/snarled it and heeled both Carries to be the only ones in range and then fed TP via dia spam/snarling hate off.

Hope that helps someone.

i thought this thread was going to be about stouts;_;, like russian imperial stouts or american double stouts. i highly recommend goose island bourbon county brand stout, stone imperial russian stout, and brooklyn black chocolate stout. i buy brooklyn bc stout 4packs for $7~ all the time, and am never let down.

/comfort. at least your pet gets a 4.8%~ damage mitigation boost.

Any 78 BSTs care to run the test with a charmed pet, instead of a jug pet? I have no reason to believe Stout Servant doesn't affect charmed pets. But I can see how others would assume the opposite and would want confirmation before they believe otherwise.