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Dex on a Giant Beetle

Biazen

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Hi everyone...

Has anyone ever had an issue where DEX will just not raise on a pet?

I am training up another Giant Beetle and the DEX went up as far as 57 and has stopped. I can't say I recall what it was when I started training... I assume it was 50. I do know that it has not raised in the past couple of hours.

Wrestling, tact, and anat are all in the 80s or 90s, and slot training is about 60%.

Any ideas?
 

Mordha

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It is possible to get stam/dex to 125. But you need to get wrestling and tactics, and maybe anatomy (I think) to 100. Both do go up faster once the skills are GM. I got impatient and stopped trying after I got mine to 100+
You will find your giant beetle will have more then enough points to spend the little bit it takes to bring stam and dex to 150.
 

Biazen

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Thanks Mordha…
I do know that you can buy the dex and stam up to 150. My main concern is that something was perhaps bugged with the pet (no pun intended).
With almost 2 stables full of pets, I had never encountered this before.
 

Khaelor

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gming focus is the fastest way to get dex/stam to 125 and why beetles can be a pain with gaining stam/dex, they dont gain focus well
 

Basara

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I had the dex on one of my beetles get reduced from 150 to 143 somehow by a bug, and the GMs said they couldn't fix it.
 

Biazen

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Khaelor… that would make sense. At slot 1 it's hard to get them beat down to lose stam without getting them killed, and they have nothing to cast to regen mana...

Basara… And let me guess, it was a completed beetle, slot 5?

Update: The DEX started to gain again once I had aggro with the shadow ele… All is well again :)
 

PlayerSkillFTW

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DEX also gains rapidly once Resist hits GM. Have a bunch of Spectral Spellbinders cast on your Giant Beetle, it should GM Resist within a single Whisper session, then the Beetle's DEX will start to gain a lot faster. I can usually get a pet up to 125 STR/DEX in 30-40 minutes this way. This is usually the first thing i do once a pet bonds, since higher Stam increases the rate that it gains Wrest/Tact/Anat/Poisoning (if applicable) due to faster attack speed.
 

Basara

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Khaelor… that would make sense. At slot 1 it's hard to get them beat down to lose stam without getting them killed, and they have nothing to cast to regen mana...

Basara… And let me guess, it was a completed beetle, slot 5?

Update: The DEX started to gain again once I had aggro with the shadow ele… All is well again :)
Yep....
 
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