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[dev1024] Beastmasters can now call two new familiars with the Call Beast ability.

Was this in the test server? Haven't heard this before, but I can't wait to play with it.

I need to keep up on the test server then, this sounds like a blast.

I almost shat a brick.

For a minute there, I thought you meant they had allowed for us to call 2 pets at once, like some of the campaign battle Bst NPCs do.

Didn't mean to do that to anyone! I need to be more careful with post titles!

Awww. I had the same reading comprehension problem as the others.

That sucks. I didn't level cooking for a long time, only to finally bite the bullet and do it. If I have to level synergy I'm not going to be happy.

oh god, didn't notice they were synergy recipes... sigh... and I was so excited cause it looked like the slug jugs might be reasonably inexpensive. Probably not if they are synergy onry

I crafted some with extreme difficulty at clothcraft Cooking 70, lots of breaks, only managed to walk away with 2 successful synthesis (8 jugs). So you do not need synergy though it is probably better.

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 7:50pm by MavrickX

What are the ingrediants?

So slug jug is around 70 cooking?

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 8:42pm by Zjinn

Hmm, which materials/crystal did you use. Listed materials and earth/water gave "combo can not be synth.."

:) just checked again. Was so excited forgot to look at the simple things ::shame::

I crafted this easily at 88.1 cooking I HQ'd one and broke 1 out of a bunch of synths.

where are you getting this info about resistant to earth? Please provide an example.

I"m looking forward to testing this w/ a parser. I haven'been able to tell how it affects combat really.

It gives a massive regen to pets for 5 min. but your pet very much disappears after those 5 min.

I really haven't been able to tell on test server what it does other than that.

Well I notice on the test serve that slug tend to resist Earth based spells when fighting Glavoid and Tunga (Nukes, Slow, Break, etc) but I just figured its natural resistance due to his level advantage, then again the Tiger was not resisting nearly as much. Would need more tests but I'm fairly confident it's because of level advantage and the tiger just sucks at evading magic.

So.... pets have been out for a few days now, what's is everyone's thoughts on each one and how they compare to our others?

Personally, playing around with the slug left me pretty disappointed. Average hits where around 75-100 less than Sheep/Rabbit (in salvage that is [at comparable areas/unlocks]). En-slow is a nice thought, but doesn't help sell it as a tank for me. TP moves appear to need some more firepower behind them for my personal taste for requiring 2 and 3 charges.

Thoughts?

this is very nice to know for fighting Bukhis :D


I think the slug TP moves are VERY potent. You get a very potent attack and DEF reduction on one, and bio AND max HP down on the other. I don't see a problem w/ the required charges. It would be nicer if purulent ooze was 3 charges and corrosive was 2.. I would like to use corrosive ooze more often. That seems the one to use most, but I won't be able to use it every fight on normal mobs this way, even solo. I'll kill at least 2x for each time the recast is up.


Edited, Sep 22nd 2011 1:42am by Xilk

I missed that one, Slug is immune to doom?

I've not seen anything about it, so wanted to make sure I'd gotten the right end of the stick before attempting my next wotg mission solo again (AoE doom was my downfall last time).

I tried farming ruszor meat and got 4 pieces of meat in one hour. ; ; YMMV.

And yeah, I tanked the Mandy NM from tier 1 VW in West Saru[S]... it does Fatal Scream a LOT, and the slug just keeps on chuggin'. Xibalbas doom aura and en-dooms were also shaken off as if they were nothing. I'm impressed. :o

Yup just beat my mission, focused on the opponent who uses aoe doom first and then used Runwild at 60% of her HP. Doom went of at 50% and Yuly was unaffected!

I managed to take down 3 of the 4 mobs before runwild expired and my pet despawned. Also I never noticed Yuly get paralyzed the whole time Runwild was up (one of the mobs has an en-paralyze effect and another one has an Aoe 2hr ability that damages, knocksback and paralyzes everything in range), it could have just been resisted, but it might be worth testing if Runwild offers anymore status resistances/immunities other than doom.

Overall I'm becoming more and more happy with Runwild all the time.

Edited, Sep 23rd 2011 6:28am by GenryuOfBahamut

Oh yes, my experience with Gorefang Hobs, our new lovely smilodon of doom:

Took him out at 93 in The Shrine of Ru'Avitu, and had this to say: HOLY $#@!. I think we got a true DD jug here folks. Whereas my jugpets at 93 (lucky lalush, discrete louise, Shasha, and mailbuster cetas) were all hitting around 180-240ish a hit, louise doing the worst and shasha hitting the hardest...

Gorefang was glorious. He hits for 250 (rarely), to 340+ normal hits, mostly in the 300 range, and crits for almost 500 on the same mobs. He hits fast, double attacks often, and his razor fang does a steady 850-1k+, usually 1k+. I even saw a 1257 razor fang from him. He took the hits fairly well too, with only -10% PDT he would tank about 9-11 mobs before needing a stay to heal back to full. He gets around 6% TP a hit, so he's got fairly low delay. I didn't even try using pet enhancing gear like pet haste or accuracy either. <_<; He's just a brutal monster, and I love it!