Theurgist Pet Questions - Phoenix Freeshard

How does the specific level of each pet affect its damage, movement speed, casting speed, attack speed, and health? And are there some level cutoffs where at a certain level it wont improve that attribute of the pet?

Does a red earth pet move faster than a yellow earth pet for example? Does a red ice pet cast faster than a yellow air pet? Stuff like that. Do higher level pets always have more hitpoints? It appears that higher level pets always do a little more damage than lower level pets.

Wed 6 Feb 2019 3:30 PM by Koljar

The char planer shows the nuke delve for the ice pets (go check those, the lvl 25 pet has the highest nuke delve already). The other stuff is not listed. And (from what I've been told): The last earth pets are faster than all pets before those. On live it had more than speed 6 and, due to lasting 60 seconds, it could catch up to even a sprinting speed class. Not sure if it's THAT fast here but someone else might let you know.

Iirc the highest pets all have the same HP and melee dmg (ice pets still nuke until forced to melee) and still have their varying duration. Theu pets can be buffed tho (you can dmg add and haste an earth pet) which leads to a stronger pet but we sadly don't have aoe-buffs here (which also worked). I also think that I can remember an ML10ed theu pet. But that was at the very beginning of toa.
Also toa-related: Aoe-speed sped up pets not fast enough (as they were considered realm mates) which e.g. lead to animist bombers getting the croc ring speed buff.

p.s.: I loved toa but I always enjoyed daoc's pve part as much as rvr

Wed 6 Feb 2019 5:25 PM by Losse

Thanks, didnt know we could buff them. Think that would be worth while on a long fight or just use the mana to cast another pet? Wonder if the level 25 ice pet gets resisted more even though it delves the same damage.

Wed 6 Feb 2019 6:48 PM by saterny

Losse wrote: ↑
Wed 6 Feb 2019 5:25 PM
Wonder if the level 25 ice pet gets resisted more even though it delves the same damage.

My guess would be yes. The spell that the lvl 25 ice pet casts is a level 31 spell, which would probably get resisted more often than the later pet's spells of level 41 and 44.

That said, the tradeoff would probably not be worth putting the extra 7-15 levels into Ice considering what you would lose in the process

Wed 6 Feb 2019 7:38 PM by Losse

Makes sense. Do you think a resisted spell interrupts a cast? I am guessing no.

Thu 7 Feb 2019 7:12 AM by Koljar

saterny wrote: ↑
Wed 6 Feb 2019 6:48 PM
Losse wrote: ↑
Wed 6 Feb 2019 5:25 PM
Wonder if the level 25 ice pet gets resisted more even though it delves the same damage.

My guess would be yes. The spell that the lvl 25 ice pet casts is a level 31 spell, which would probably get resisted more often than the later pet's spells of level 41 and 44.

That said, the tradeoff would probably not be worth putting the extra 7-15 levels into Ice considering what you would lose in the process

No it won't be. It is a lvl 50 pet (or whichever level you are). Meaning: It uses the same mechanic you use when attacking a mob. Check the "summon level max" in the char planer to figure out which level you need. 32 earch, 25 ice and 32 wind gives you those pets (this is a viable spec even - also including 35 in earth for the 8 sec pbt). Higher level pets in earch get (irrc) a run speed buff but are of the same level and thus cause the same dmg (in melee)..

Thu 7 Feb 2019 7:52 AM by saterny

Koljar wrote: ↑
Thu 7 Feb 2019 7:12 AM
No it won't be. It is a lvl 50 pet (or whichever level you are). Meaning: It uses the same mechanic you use when attacking a mob. Check the "summon level max" in the char planer to figure out which level you need. 32 earch, 25 ice and 32 wind gives you those pets (this is a viable spec even - also including 35 in earth for the 8 sec pbt). Higher level pets in earch get (irrc) a run speed buff but are of the same level and thus cause the same dmg (in melee)..

I am aware that the pet will be a level 50 pet, but according to the character planner the level 25 ice pet casts a level 31 delve spell.

Does this spell level scale with the caster's level like the pet does? Do the higher level pets have any tangible benefit if not having a higher base level spell?

Thu 7 Feb 2019 8:55 AM by Koljar

In another post an animist mentioned that he pulls with his lowest level dd and still hits lvl 45+ mobs for ~5 dmg consistently with that spell. This leads me to believing that you will not have any trouble hitting even lvl 60+ mobs twith the slvl25 ice pets.

During beta I only casted the slvl25 ice pets at the dummies and they mostly hit with occasional resists just as you'd have them.

Thu 7 Feb 2019 9:26 AM by saterny

Awesome, thanks for the info!