What to look for in pets these days?

[Merion]

As mentioned before, I'm not really understanding the new pet training system completely. So I'm a bit unsure what to look for in animals I want to tame. In the past I always lored it and the checked UOCraft's Pet Power Calculator to see how good it is.

Now I heard that weaker pets are better, because they use fewer slots and thus can be trained further. Which makes sense to me. But I wonder if there a still any stats that make a difference. Do you prefer pets with high str or mana or something because it saves trainingpoints? Or doesn't all that matter at all because you can raise the stats during training?

 

[North_LS]

from what i understand, you want str and hp as high as possible, while staying at the lowest possible starting control slots. with many pets, you'll also want to make sure certain resists dont exceed a certain value - ie. on a cu, the lower the cold resistance the better off you are.

 

[Merion]

Thanks, but I don't really understand the low resist thing. Why is it good when a cu has low cold resist?

 

[North_LS]

you can only have a total of 365 resist points on a pet, and cold is one of the less common damage types you come across. as such, each point the pet already has in cold resist is a point you cant put into a different resist.

 

[MalagAste]

Because no one wants 90 Cold Resist... it's better if you can balance out the resists so all are at least 70... though some weird people prefer to put cold low under 70 and raise everything else to 80... having really high Cold resist doesn't actually help your pet unless you plan to only fight in Ice Dungeon with them... but even then a lot of that does physical damage not cold...

 

[Merion]

Thanks, that explains a lot!

So I haven't wasted it on my legacy fire steed I chose for getting to know the system as I probably will use a fire pet against cold.