I popped a lower end of my Keep the Triton Standard the other day. The 88 Energy Resist was almost a deal breaker caused him to get dumped but his other stats were good enough to make him a viable primary pet on one of my second string Garg tamers. Despite the 88 E Resist I decided to keep him instead of release him.
He ended up pretty much exactly where I figured he would with the final training round.
I was shooting for one that would be good against single targets and OK at mixed MOBs. SO did Chiv and FWW and tossed Goo on just because. I could have went straight Chiv and spent the FWW/Goo points on a bigger mana pool and more HP, I am not of the school that you need more than 700-750HP and a if I have the training points left over I will spend them on getting ideal Int and a larger mana pool. Personally I see no difference in the long fights between 100 Mana and 500 mana beyond the opening minute or so before the big mana pool is drained and relying on the pets MR. So I will take more mana or leave it, just a non factor for me so long as it is over 100.
I run every 5 slot pet I keep and train through my personal Gauntlet to make the final decision as whether the pet is worthy of remaining in my stables.
I start out easy on the pet with soloing a Lurg with no vetting or primer help. Followed by a swoop with the same rules on vet/primer.
I make it more difficult with the Rend Test. I ended up having to run Consume on this Rend he was hitting at machine gun speed and like a 20 pound sledge hammer. And spamming bandages was not even coming close to keeping up.
I got a nice chest at the end of the fight though
IMO Rend is the toughest of the ML Named Mini Bosses. And a must beat on the pet gauntlet proving tour.
Next up A Solo of Navrey. NO ROCK DROPPING! It is a longish fight solo with any pet. A Tritons Phys/Energy Damage is not optimal but acceptable for the spider.
The outcome of this fight could be seen early on. No need for consume and there was no need to even vet. The tritons healing was keeping up with the damage. About half way through I started running Beserk just to speed the inevitable up. The Tritons mana was a total no issue as he healed just fin, kept EOO going and regularly dropped FWW, Consecrate Weapon and AI. Chiv/Tactics is not high enough for the big hits yet but was hitting pretty regular 150-170 AIs. I probably should have skipped Goo and put it into higher INT and a bit more mana pool and the Goo is handy for keeping mixed mobs angry at the pet and bringing them into the FWW circle.
And then I got caught in the Navrey trap that I always do.......... I like killing the spider and ended up bring other pets in need of skill training and spending most of the night cycling 20 of the other tamers through training their pets up while the OKTriton Tanked for them. I have a OCD Disorder with Making Tamers LOL every time I get a 120 Tame and Lore and Primer 3 I feel totally compelled to build another legendary tamer. LOL I think I am up to 98 Tamers now With this one being the newest LOL A High Luck Necro Tamer.
I Love my tamers and I love building pets for every occasion. I do it a little different than most in a lot of the builds particularly in the HP and Mana realm. A LOT of my pets only have 500-600HP and I run some of the hardest content with them. Sometime today The Triton will face the final test of the Gauntlet and face off against a T Rex. I can already say he will win, it will just be a very long fight running consume and tossing the occasional bandage. But it still must be done LOL.
He ended up pretty much exactly where I figured he would with the final training round.
I was shooting for one that would be good against single targets and OK at mixed MOBs. SO did Chiv and FWW and tossed Goo on just because. I could have went straight Chiv and spent the FWW/Goo points on a bigger mana pool and more HP, I am not of the school that you need more than 700-750HP and a if I have the training points left over I will spend them on getting ideal Int and a larger mana pool. Personally I see no difference in the long fights between 100 Mana and 500 mana beyond the opening minute or so before the big mana pool is drained and relying on the pets MR. So I will take more mana or leave it, just a non factor for me so long as it is over 100.
I run every 5 slot pet I keep and train through my personal Gauntlet to make the final decision as whether the pet is worthy of remaining in my stables.
I start out easy on the pet with soloing a Lurg with no vetting or primer help. Followed by a swoop with the same rules on vet/primer.
I make it more difficult with the Rend Test. I ended up having to run Consume on this Rend he was hitting at machine gun speed and like a 20 pound sledge hammer. And spamming bandages was not even coming close to keeping up.
I got a nice chest at the end of the fight though
IMO Rend is the toughest of the ML Named Mini Bosses. And a must beat on the pet gauntlet proving tour.
Next up A Solo of Navrey. NO ROCK DROPPING! It is a longish fight solo with any pet. A Tritons Phys/Energy Damage is not optimal but acceptable for the spider.
The outcome of this fight could be seen early on. No need for consume and there was no need to even vet. The tritons healing was keeping up with the damage. About half way through I started running Beserk just to speed the inevitable up. The Tritons mana was a total no issue as he healed just fin, kept EOO going and regularly dropped FWW, Consecrate Weapon and AI. Chiv/Tactics is not high enough for the big hits yet but was hitting pretty regular 150-170 AIs. I probably should have skipped Goo and put it into higher INT and a bit more mana pool and the Goo is handy for keeping mixed mobs angry at the pet and bringing them into the FWW circle.
And then I got caught in the Navrey trap that I always do.......... I like killing the spider and ended up bring other pets in need of skill training and spending most of the night cycling 20 of the other tamers through training their pets up while the OKTriton Tanked for them. I have a OCD Disorder with Making Tamers LOL every time I get a 120 Tame and Lore and Primer 3 I feel totally compelled to build another legendary tamer. LOL I think I am up to 98 Tamers now With this one being the newest LOL A High Luck Necro Tamer.
I Love my tamers and I love building pets for every occasion. I do it a little different than most in a lot of the builds particularly in the HP and Mana realm. A LOT of my pets only have 500-600HP and I run some of the hardest content with them. Sometime today The Triton will face the final test of the Gauntlet and face off against a T Rex. I can already say he will win, it will just be a very long fight running consume and tossing the occasional bandage. But it still must be done LOL.
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