I need help to understand the Pet Intensity Calculator at
Pet Intensity Calculator | uo-cah.com
I got a Triton which, "apparently" came out, untrained, with a 75.05% Intensity Rating (a 4308 Intensity Value) which I understand is considered a "good" Intensity Rating.....
Yet, it has 116.9 Wrestling (max I understand can be 130.0) and 155.2 Resisting spells (max I understand can be 190.0).
Why does it gets such an above average Intensity Rating when Wrestling and Resisting Spells are not so good ?
Every pet in the game can spawn with a range of stats. You can find these stats by looking at the
[bcolor=rgb(16, 16, 16)]Bestiary [/bcolor]for a specific pet.
Over time, enough experience with taming of specific pets, and you will know the spawn range these pets quite well (Cu's for example, most people that farm them know the range quite well).
Intensity is actually a very straight-forward rating system, even if it seems complex. It is much less complex and easier to understand than the old 5.0 rating system.
Intensity is just the training value of every stat/skill/ability of the pet added up. For example:
- Hit Points, Strength, and Resists are 3 training points per 1 (or 3 intensity per 1 HP, STR, or Resist value)
- Intelligence, Mana, and Stamina are 1 training point per 2
- Most abilities are 100 Points
- Skills vary depending on the skill, but the values are known thanks to the training and scroll cost in advanced pet training.
The more intensity a pet starts with, the higher it's overall intensity will be once trained (which usually leads to more Hit Points, More Mana, Better Scrolls, etc. over lower intensity pets of the same species).
Look at the Bestiary page for a pet. Look at the
minimum value of every stat and skill of that pet. If a pet were to spawn with these minimum values, it would be a 0% rating, as it literally spawned as the worst possible version.
Now look at the
maximum value of every stat and skill of that pet. If a pet were to spawn with these maximum values, it would be a 100% rating, as it literally spawned as the best possible version.
Take the
Triton for example, it has a spawn range of 990 Intensity. Your
75.05% Triton is only missing 248 intensity points off the maximum possible points a Triton can spawn with. So looking at all the stats and skills combined on your triton, it is better than 75% of all other tritons that will exist.
It has lower Wrestling and Resisting Spells compared to their relative caps, but Wrestling and Resisting Spells make up only 240 Intensity of that 990 spread (or only 24%).
If you look at the breakdown of your Triton, you will see a lot of its stats (particularly the high intensity stats like str/hits/resists) are rated very high individually:
While overcapped Wrestling and Resisting Spells are part of what makes the Triton a unique/different pet than the others, it's not the only criteria involved in rating them. The Intensity rating tells you at a glance how well your Triton rolled overall, but it is up to the individual player to determine the worth of that Triton (or any pet) based on what they want to do with it.
Bottom line is, how do I judge if this, or any other Triton, for this matter, is a good one or not ?
Experience and personal preference. Even a low rated Triton will make for an amazing pet -- they have a lot of training potential and are one of the highest intensity pets in the game (not to mention they are blank slates, so they can be customized just about any way you want).
A lot of people get hung up on the 0% to 100% rating system and interpret it as a grading system. A 60% Triton doesn't mean it is a "D" grade Triton. It means it has more intensity than 60% of all other possible Tritons that will spawn. a 60% pet is still a very good pet (for any pet, not just Tritons). Some people are disappointed with a 70% rated pet because they think it is a "C" grade, or average, but 70% is a fantastic pet. 80% are amazing pets and extremely hard to find for most pets.
So once people get the "Grading system" idea out of their mind when looking at pets, it can help them see the actual value of their pet.
All-in-all, it comes down to personal preference of the tamer and what they want to do with the pet.
If you personally value high wrestling and resisting spells over any other stat on the Triton, then you will need to keep hunting for one that satisfies your personal criteria for a pet. If you only want ones with 220+ Strength and high Wrestling, then you will need to hunt for one of those and not bother looking at their rating.
The rating is there to help tamers at a glance see how good their pet is. I could adjust the rating system to give bonuses for certain things, such as any pet over 120 wrestling, but once you make that concession, what will be the next "bonus" request, high Resisting Spells? Well how high is high enough? High dex? High Resists? etc. Then once you start adding all these individual bonus elements, the rating system become incredibly convoluted and less transparent.
My personal opinion on your Triton: It is a very nice Triton still and will make a great pet, despite having under 120 Wrestling. You can still scroll the wrestling if you want, then it will be identical to every other trained pet out there with 120 Wrestling, or keep it as is and it will still kill things.
Some people only want 128+ Wrestling, others don't care. There are also areas where you don't need super high wrestling to succeed. Champ spawn for example -- you don't need super high wrestling for them because most of the waves aren't going to be creatures with high wrestling themselves. So again, it really depends on what you want to accomplish with your pet.