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Or the GD is still the best all-around-tank...
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I for one would be MORE then happy to help our cross sharders on Origin train up smaller pets....last Origin event was lag central I haven't seen that many GD's at an event in awhile here on Origin lol.
I like my Cu now...I was killing miasma with it and the reptalon decided to visit and my Cu took down both with no healing at all from me.
Still training up a few others....but I think if they took the time or had help we'd see fewer GD's.
I still break the GDs out now and then more from a sentimental attachment to them than because they are the best pet for the job. And there are a few shards I play on occasion where I have a GD or two and just am not going to bother training up and scrolling other pets to be equal to or better than the GDs on those shards.
I'll be honest all my tamers on other shards have the standard GD because I don't have time or scrolls to work them up on other shards ... YET... and I'll stress YET because I've been so busy on my home shard... 9 tamers there alone... and each one is having a blast finding their "pet" that suits their build... or RP...
Elvolin still has my favorite though if the DEVs listen and make the Dread a 2 slot pet ... which I still think it ought to be (would also be SUPER nice if they let us tame Black Widows as well)... I'll have to redo the spider... but for now I love my Dread ... sure it's not very tanky and such but it's one mean spider... and I enjoy it.
Elvolin still has my favorite though if the DEVs listen and make the Dread a 2 slot pet ... which I still think it ought to be (would also be SUPER nice if they let us tame Black Widows as well)... I'll have to redo the spider... but for now I love my Dread ... sure it's not very tanky and such but it's one mean spider... and I enjoy it.
Black Widows would have been great
I still use only two pets. My crappy Cu for The Orchard, and my cat (what humans and elves call "A Greater Dragon", but seriously, you didn't know it was a cat?
I have yet to "train" anything with the new system. With the price of scrolls I am waiting a good time to let things be tweaked, changed, fixed, and nerfed. And even then, maybe will I invest in other pets. \
However, in this situation you show you must remember, a lot of players have built a tamer on each shard for events. However, if that is all they are doing there is no reason to spend mega millions on power scrolls to train them, so the next best thing is get a cat (greater dragon) and use that and save the scrolls for their sweetheart pets on the home shard.
I have yet to "train" anything with the new system. With the price of scrolls I am waiting a good time to let things be tweaked, changed, fixed, and nerfed. And even then, maybe will I invest in other pets. \
However, in this situation you show you must remember, a lot of players have built a tamer on each shard for events. However, if that is all they are doing there is no reason to spend mega millions on power scrolls to train them, so the next best thing is get a cat (greater dragon) and use that and save the scrolls for their sweetheart pets on the home shard.
You know just training your crappy cu up without scrolls would make it a power house...............
It was interesting to see all the pets at the net toss on Atlantic Sunday - not one GD - probably because people were training up other creatures - it took longer than with 4-5 GDs, but they killed 10 Scalis in two hours
I doubt we have GDs at our net toss. But the EM tossed 18 or 22 nets and we only got 2 Scalis. Everyone said that was the worst RNG they have seen.
Like people said, the events bring in the visitors and very casual players.
Not even close. A good Saurosaurus with 85 Physical/90 Fire Resist and 120 Wrest/Parry will out tank any GD any day of the week. Plus they have Life Leech, allowing them to heal themselves for half the damage they inflict. The only things that a Saurosaurus doesn't perform better than a GD on, is bosses with Corrupted Life, causing their Life Leech to damage them instead, such as Osiredon or Corgul. For those, a Cu Sidhe will out tank a GD.
In fact, EM Bennu was so impressed with my Saurosaurus, Varstok, tanking the entire Twisted Weald entrance cave (2 Hellgoats, waves of 30+ Hell Hounds, waves of 15+ Greater Poison Elementals, plus the Corruptions, any of these could be Paragons asides from the Hellgoats), that he created a giant blue Stygian Dragon outside the entrance to the Twisted Weald cave and named it "Varstok the Greater" as a monument to my Varstok. Which is still there. This was on Atlantic. Then a day or two later, i used Varstok to tank 2 Putrifiers, 4+ Tangles, numerous Theophilus the Necromancers, along with Hell Hounds all at the same time in that cave. Not to mention Varstok tanked the two event mini-bosses, the Cave Dragons, at the same time, and barely took a scratch.
However, Varstok didn't get a chance at the big event boss on Wednesday, because too many fatass GDs were blocking view of the boss, and too many people were there for Ctrl+Shift to work to grab the bosses bar
During the event on Atlantic, i was using my Dread Spider, Lolth, to tank the Corruption Vortexes which did 90% Poison/10% Physical with their melee, and they could barely scratch her due to her 100% Poison Resist and 80 Physical Resist. She has Necromage and Poison Breath as added abilities, does a lot of AoE damage.
Yeah I really love my Dread Spider... Barra D'Aphyon (Shadow of Death, in drow of course)... All I gave her was Explosive goo... with 110 Magery, 120 Eval, 120 Med, 115 wrestling, and 120 parry... She is nasty... Very nasty... But doesn't hit as hard as I'd like... I plan to work up some other templates on the dreads .... But the little spider clears the first 2 or 3 levels of champ spawns pretty easily without any real help from me...