Mage Questions that may have never been asked before
Larry
have a few questions that I have not found the answers for.
1. Are pet naturally able to breath underwater?
2. Are normal land based mobs able to breath underwater? I ask this since I
just got my Summon Waterstone spell that lets me have enduring breath. I
thought it would be cool if I could plant myself at the bottom of some
water, pull a mob into the water and then have my Earth pet root it there
while I nuke it.
3. Can elemental pets wear armor? I have read that some say yes they can
while others say they cannot. I would love to know if they indeed can.
4. Finally, can some pets bash with a shield while using a weapon in the
other hand or are they all unable to? I read a post from somone awhile back
that said he summoned a shield and gave it to his pet and then a fang for
the pet to use as a weapon. Then he went on to say that the pet would hit
with the fang and then bash for another 10-15 points of damage with the
shield. I tried this myself without any luck with a level 16th level Earth
Pet.
Thanks for any replys in advance.
Joe Bott
"Larry" <Tall_C...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Getting burned out on my Warrior I have started playing my Mage again. I
> have a few questions that I have not found the answers for.
>
> 1. Are pet naturally able to breath underwater?
> 2. Are normal land based mobs able to breath underwater? I ask this since
I
> just got my Summon Waterstone spell that lets me have enduring breath. I
> thought it would be cool if I could plant myself at the bottom of some
> water, pull a mob into the water and then have my Earth pet root it there
> while I nuke it.
All NPCs can breathe underwater, including pets.
> 3. Can elemental pets wear armor? I have read that some say yes they can
> while others say they cannot. I would love to know if they indeed can.
Yes they can. In fact, there are high level summoned items that are pet
only.
> 4. Finally, can some pets bash with a shield while using a weapon in the
> other hand or are they all unable to? I read a post from somone awhile
back
> that said he summoned a shield and gave it to his pet and then a fang for
> the pet to use as a weapon. Then he went on to say that the pet would hit
> with the fang and then bash for another 10-15 points of damage with the
> shield. I tried this myself without any luck with a level 16th level
Earth
> Pet.
Ooh, this one I'm not sure on. But I'd say it wouldnt be worth it if it was
true, especially when you get higher level. And maybe later when pets dual
wield, handing them a shield would negate that. Maybe. Usually pets do more
damage on their own, and handing them weapons only gives them a graphic and
not much else. Unless the weapon has a proc on it, then its sometimes nice
to hand your pet one.
Joe
Just Jekke
wrote:
>Getting burned out on my Warrior I have started playing my Mage again. I
>have a few questions that I have not found the answers for.
>
>1. Are pet naturally able to breath underwater?
Yes.
>2. Are normal land based mobs able to breath underwater? I ask this since I
>just got my Summon Waterstone spell that lets me have enduring breath. I
>thought it would be cool if I could plant myself at the bottom of some
>water, pull a mob into the water and then have my Earth pet root it there
>while I nuke it.
Yes. Sorry. Your strat won't work.
I don't know the answers to 3 & 4.
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John M Clancy
> have a few questions that I have not found the answers for.
>
> 1. Are pet naturally able to breath underwater?
Yes. All pets and NPCs never take any evironmental damage, like drowning
lava or falling damage.
> 2. Are normal land based mobs able to breath underwater? I ask this since I
> just got my Summon Waterstone spell that lets me have enduring breath. I
> thought it would be cool if I could plant myself at the bottom of some
> water, pull a mob into the water and then have my Earth pet root it there
> while I nuke it.
No point to it see above.
> 3. Can elemental pets wear armor? I have read that some say yes they can
> while others say they cannot. I would love to know if they indeed can.
Yes they can and it helps. They can even wear the focus jewelry that
a mage can summon. You can even give them 2 earrings and 2 rings, since
npcs ignore the LORE tag on items.
Monster summoned pets can't equip weapons and armors, even if they
are monsters that normally can like an orc.
> 4. Finally, can some pets bash with a shield while using a weapon in the
> other hand or are they all unable to? I read a post from somone awhile back
> that said he summoned a shield and gave it to his pet and then a fang for
> the pet to use as a weapon. Then he went on to say that the pet would hit
> with the fang and then bash for another 10-15 points of damage with the
> shield. I tried this myself without any luck with a level 16th level Earth
> Pet.
Higher level pets automatically bash, they don't need a shield.
>
> Thanks for any replys in advance.
One little tip. Use the fire pet. Hugely underestimated by most mages.
That innate fire shield they have is a HUGE mana saver and its more
damage than the one you can cast. The fire shield is the pet level + 2.
For instance my level 49 fire pet is a level 41 mob so that means its
fire shield does 43 points of damage!! I can only cast a 25 point shield
and that costs a lot of mana to keep casting it over and over. In a typical fight
a pet gets hit at least 10 times, so that's 430 mana free damage.
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ilian
"> 1. Are pet naturally able to breath underwater?
> 2. Are normal land based mobs able to breath underwater? I ask this since
I
> just got my Summon Waterstone spell that lets me have enduring breath. I
> thought it would be cool if I could plant myself at the bottom of some
> water, pull a mob into the water and then have my Earth pet root it there
> while I nuke it.
They can breathe underwater
> 3. Can elemental pets wear armor? I have read that some say yes they can
> while others say they cannot. I would love to know if they indeed can.
Yes they most definately can.. There is kind of a trick to it though.. If
you hand an elemental
multiple peices of armor in one trade, then it will only wear one of them..
So
what you need to do is hand the armor to the elemental peice by piece.
Also, unlke pc's elementals can hold more than one lore item.. So you can
give
your elemental a sliglt hp boost by summoning a set of focus items for him..
giving them
to him one by one, then summoning a second set, give them to him, then
summon a third set
for yourself. This is quite time consuming, so I only do it when i plan to
keep a pet for several hours.
here is the full list of equipment i give to my pet. when soloing in one
area and not chain-casting
-2 summoned mystic dagger or sword of runes
-full set of summoned plate mail (except bracers)
- elemental defender
-focus necklace
-2 focus rings
-2 focus earring
-2 focus bracers
-coldstone
After doing this, you will notice a _signficant_ increase in the
survivability of your pet while tanking.
> 4. Finally, can some pets bash with a shield while using a weapon in the
> other hand or are they all unable to? I read a post from somone awhile
back
> that said he summoned a shield and gave it to his pet and then a fang for
> the pet to use as a weapon. Then he went on to say that the pet would hit
> with the fang and then bash for another 10-15 points of damage with the
> shield. I tried this myself without any luck with a level 16th level
Earth
> Pet.
>
Im not really sure about this one.. But i will say once your pet gets dual
weild, your much
better off giving him two summoned weapons. If your pet cant dual weild yet,
then give him
2 elemental defenders. one for shield slot, and one for back slot. I dont
THINK they will bash
but really not sure.
Another interesting thing is that if you give them a proccing weapon to use,
they will use the proc.
Go ahead and farm up some gnoll hide lariats, ykesha's, daggers of dropping,
serrated bone dirks, any weapons with damage dealing procs.. You can give
them to your pet, for a large dps increase in tough areas.
Dark Tyger
>> 3. Can elemental pets wear armor? I have read that some say yes they can
>> while others say they cannot. I would love to know if they indeed can.
>
>Yes they can and it helps. They can even wear the focus jewelry that
>a mage can summon. You can even give them 2 earrings and 2 rings, since
>npcs ignore the LORE tag on items.
Which is something I only learned within the past few months. I'm not
leaving the +str ulthork armor on the corpses to rot with my
necromancer anymore. ;-)
Question is, can BL Warders do the same? I know they can equip
weapons, but since the recent warder changes, their HTH skill is
better than their weapon skills...
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Sean Kennedy
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You're right - handing a shield (such as the summoned elemental
defender) does negate dual wield.
Weapons make the pet do more damage if weapon damage times 2 is
greater than the pet's base damage
For all other questions - http://www.magecompendium.com
Sean Kennedy
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> "John M Clancy" <sp...@spark.com> wrote:
>
>>> 3. Can elemental pets wear armor? I have read that some say yes
>>> they can while others say they cannot. I would love to know if they
>>> indeed can.
>>
>>Yes they can and it helps. They can even wear the focus jewelry that
>>a mage can summon. You can even give them 2 earrings and 2 rings,
>>since npcs ignore the LORE tag on items.
>
> Which is something I only learned within the past few months. I'm not
> leaving the +str ulthork armor on the corpses to rot with my
> necromancer anymore. ;-)
>
> Question is, can BL Warders do the same? I know they can equip
> weapons, but since the recent warder changes, their HTH skill is
> better than their weapon skills...
>
I dunno about that - but if you see a 56 mage around get
a muzzle of mardu from him - 11-15percent haste (depending
who you ask :-P) for your kitty.
New mage summons at high levels have +HP on them, and I've
always given my pet a full suit of Focus+armor if I was going
to solo for a while.
8 focus at +20 hp ea, 2 swords at +50 hp ea and Girdle
of MagiKot - +500hp. Total 760 extra hp for your pet.
It's be elementary to verify that it helped, just summon
a low level pet, give these to it, duel someone and have
them land a 300pointish nuke. A level 9 warder would
die if the pet didn't use the HP onthe gear.
Lance Berg
Larry wrote:
> Getting burned out on my Warrior I have started playing my Mage again. I
> have a few questions that I have not found the answers for.
>
> 1. Are pet naturally able to breath underwater?
Yes
>
> 2. Are normal land based mobs able to breath underwater? I ask this since I
> just got my Summon Waterstone spell that lets me have enduring breath. I
> thought it would be cool if I could plant myself at the bottom of some
> water, pull a mob into the water and then have my Earth pet root it there
> while I nuke it.
All mobs can breathe underwater. All mobs also take no damage from falling.
Your pets are mobs, for these purposes. So are you, should you ever be chamed
by a mob.
>
> 3. Can elemental pets wear armor? I have read that some say yes they can
> while others say they cannot. I would love to know if they indeed can.
Yes they can. For most purposes, however, it would be quite a waste of money to
give them any, since it will vanish when they die or you log. Mages can summon
some armor, though, that effectively gives them a way to buff up pets in a way
that doesn't wear off with time (assuming the pets never die) and yet doesn't
cost any cash or tedious to camp items.
>
> 4. Finally, can some pets bash with a shield while using a weapon in the
> other hand or are they all unable to? I read a post from somone awhile back
> that said he summoned a shield and gave it to his pet and then a fang for
> the pet to use as a weapon. Then he went on to say that the pet would hit
> with the fang and then bash for another 10-15 points of damage with the
> shield. I tried this myself without any luck with a level 16th level Earth
> Pet.
>
> Thanks for any replys in advance.
I don't know about pets using the bash skill. Some pets are of varying classes,
so its possible that some do and some don't. You'd have to ask a mage, and a
necromancer, for details.
Bergh
Sean Kennedy
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>
> Yes they can. For most purposes, however, it would be quite a waste
> of money to give them any, since it will vanish when they die or you
> log. Mages can summon some armor, though, that effectively gives them
> a way to buff up pets in a way that doesn't wear off with time
> (assuming the pets never die) and yet doesn't cost any cash or tedious
> to camp items.
>
Prior to level 16 (maybe 12, can't rembmer now) rusty 2 handers are
a nice way to boost damage. They can be had for a pittance at
Hallerd's Resale's in EFP.
Lance Berg
Sean Kennedy wrote:
Rusty Halberds are better, but a trifle harder to find.
Bergh