Ahh...the past.... *sniffles in nostalgia* :)
Quick dirty summary:
Old way:
Pet would use what ever was best for its self between
natural damage and speed and weapon damage and speed.
If weapon had lower delay then natural speed of 30,
then pet would use that lower delay. If weapon had
higher damage then the level based natural damage,
then it would use that higher level damage. Thus high
level pets were given low delay weapons(daggers). High
level pet would attack with natural damage(55 damage
for example) with dagger delay(22 delay). Low level
pets were given high damage weapons( halberd with 12
damage, and it would still attack with delay 30).
New way:
Low level pets still use whatever damage is better,
but no longer compare delay. Delay is always 30. Thus
level 1 skeleton with a rusty halberd will do
insane(relatively speaking) damage. While a high level
skeleton with a dagger will not get any benefit on
delay from daggers. Two weapons at level 29 and on
will activate the pet's ability to duel wield and thus
attack more often.
New way summary:
Pets up to level 16, give one high damage weapon
(rusty halberd, rusty scythe). 20th and 24th level, it
makes no difference what so ever if you give anything
to a pet. 29th level on, give any two weapons to
activate duel wield. We can now give two of the same
kind of a weapon to a pet. i.e. two rusty daggers. I
personally like giving them two spectre scythes.
Always, weapons with processes will help the pet.
However, I don't know if the level of the pet gets
taken into effect for processing weapons. For example,
giving a level 1 pet a staff of discord might not have
the staff process as the staff goes of at level 29 and
higher and the pet is lower then that. If I get bored
enough, I might test it. Then again, I am not really
all that interested since my pet is high level and all
weapons should process for it. :)
Darkmoon Somberlight
--- Barry Senowitz <
barrys@...> wrote:
> Actually every pet got the delay no matter what the
> level when you handed it
> a lower delay weapon. If you stack on the 39th lvl
> augment death on top of
> the lower delay weapons then yes, you would of
> noticed a big difference in
> the speed from 39th on up.
>
> But this is all moot now, ah the past.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Naeeldar [mailto:jackal@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:01 PM
> To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Level 24 Pet, and
> related questions
>
>
> From: "Naeeldar" <jackal@...>
>
> Heh it only really got the dly increase at 44 and 49
> where you dish more
> damage but with a higher dly. Somewhat 39 but for
> the most part it only
> affected the 44 and 49 pets.
>
> Naeeldar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Senowitz <barrys@...>
> To: 'EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com'
> <EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:38 AM
> Subject: RE: [EQ_Necromancer] Level 24 Pet, and
> related questions
>
>
> >From: Barry Senowitz <barrys@...>
> >
> >At 29th level you can give your pet any 2 1 hand
> weapons and he will dual
> >weild. Not only were we screwed with the 2 weapon
> requirement, but we used
> >to be able to hand our pet a weapon with a delay
> lower than 30 and it would
> >use that delay, but no more.
> >
> >Aren't enchancements great!!!!
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Hu Anderson [mailto:as4603rosand@...]
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:28 AM
> >To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
> >Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Level 24 Pet, and
> related questions
> >
> >
> >From: "Hu Anderson" <as4603rosand@...>
> >
> >OK so do you need to still give you pet 2 different
> weapons to get dual
> >wield or will 2 rusty daggers get dual wield now?
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Trizzen Do'Trevan" <trizzen@...>
> >To: <EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:00 AM
> >Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Level 24 Pet, and
> related questions
> >
> >
> >> From: Trizzen Do'Trevan <trizzen@...>
> >>
> >>
> >> > First off, what level of pet is it possible to
> >> > summon with the level 24 pet
> >> > spell (Haunting Corpse).
> >>
> >> I really don't remember the levels per say...
> >>
> >> > Reason I ask is this:
> >> > last night I'm camping
> >> > Ratraz in Neriak. I summon my top pet, which
> hits
> >> > for a max of 22. My
> >> > friend dings into level 24 and summons his new,
> sexy
> >> > :), dark-boned
> >> > skeleton. It conned a higher blue to me than
> my top
> >> > pet......but it never
> >> > hit for more than 22! What gives? Did he just
> >> > happen to summon a sucky
> >> > one?
> >>
> >> Exactly. He had a bad summon.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Next question, deals with weapons for pets. I
> know
> >> > that recently our pets
> >> > were nerfed in this department. I know we have
> to
> >> > give our level 29 pets 2
> >> > weapons in order to duel wield. What type of
> >> > weapons do you recommend?
> >>
> >> There are two types to give to pets. Weapons that
> >> process, and weapons that do not. If you give a
> pet a
> >> weapons that processes(dnoll hide lariat, mage
> >> summoned sword), then the pet will process in
> battle
> >> and do extra damage. Any other weapon makes no
> >> difference what so ever. Rusty, low damage, high
> >> damae, low speed, high speed, it makes no
> difference
> >> what so ever. However, with the recent weapon
> change,
> >> the pet will sometimes "eat" a weapon. You give
> it a
> >> weapon, and it does not show up as a graphic, and
> pet
> >> does not double hit. You need to give the pet
> another
> >> weapon.
> >>
> >> > And, should I NOT give my level 24 pet a
> weapon?
> >>
> >> At that level, unless you give it a gigantic
> >> zweihander or something along those lines, I
> would not
> >> bother giving the pet a weapon. Unless you want
> to go
> >> for looks. A pet with a shield makes a nice
> "bonk"
> >> sound when bashing. :)
> >>
> >> Darkmoon Somberlight
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