Anyone else having this issue with pet summoning?

[thefloydian]

I swear I can't summon a max level pet anymore. I've gone through like 3 stacks of bonechips and still haven't got one.

[madhatta317]

Im with ya i just summoned like 10 pets in a row and they were all blue to me. Im a level 8 mage using the level 8 fire elemental spell and couldnt get one white or yellow pet.

[Ploppy]

Time to go to Vegas!

[Badmartigan]

I started about 2 months ago and am now level 36 necro.

I've never summoned an even con or higher pet.

Is this b0rked ?

[masjaun]

I think that level 8 is the last level that you can summon an even con pet, after that they're blue. I think that the level 49 mage pet range is 37-42, max hit is 56 with your focus item.

[quellren]

12 tries this morning to get a wolf pet other than green. lucky 13 was Dark Blue, and 3 pulls later we got trained and had to evac :(

[Roscoe]

As a level 40 Necromancer using 39 pet "Malignant Dead" I NEVER get anything higher than a light blue pet. I am using SoF , so that might have something to do with the color when it is considered, but I can tell by the damage output that they are not as high level as they should be. I didn't have a necromancer on sony servers untill PoP, so I don't know how they were in classic but I remember pets mostly being dark blue, sometimes even when pet spell was new.

[Lyrik]

12 tries this morning to get a wolf pet other than green. lucky 13 was Dark Blue, and 3 pulls later we got trained and had to evac :(

Yeah that was not a pleasant train :(

[Vityaz]

As a Mage at 16 I could summon a 17 or lower pet. The 17 was very very rare, but 16 was somewhat common. Once they go dark blue, you can usually judge level by damage.

Each set of pet spells seem to range lower and lower, I'm guessing when I get my 20 pets they'll max out at 20.

[quellren]

I started about 2 months ago and am now level 36 necro.

I've never summoned an even con or higher pet.

It's amazing what info you can find on P99's very own fansites:

http://moestaverne.com/p1999wiki/index.php/Pet_Guide

Many posters seem to be completely missing the actual discussion of the thread. This thread is about how, for example, the lvl 24 pet *CAN* be summoned to con even to a lvl 22, but is VERY OFTEN even con to a 19 or 20 character and thus would con light blue or green to the lvl 24 caster. This green con pet is much less durable and outputs less DPS compared to the max lvl summon pet (lvl 22) and must be resummoned.

The gripe here is that seems to taking more tries as of lately.

[guineapig]

For mages you can figure out the exact level of a fire pet by the damage shield. Sadly for all other pets it's kind of a guessing game.

Anyone have a Mage that's currently using the level 29 pet spells that could chime in as to what level fire pets they are summoning? Just curious. With and without focus item comparisons would be helpful.

[Madigan]

Yes, using the DS damage mobs take from the fire pets is the best way to judge their level. Currently, I'm using the lvl 29 fire pet and out of two stacks of malachite I have summoned a lvl 28 fire pet ONCE which then got two adds and prompted got swallowed. Within the same timeframe I summoned a lvl 27 pet three times. The rest were all lower. Not the best of odds...

Oh and that is without any focus items because I don't have time to fight for overcamped mages in Najena.

[skorge]

I havent summoned a max level pet in a few days either...weird...they musta ninja nerfed the rate at which we summon max level pets???

[Roscoe]

As a necromancer, this isn't a new issue for me. The last dark blue pet i've seen was at level 8 or 9. Not sure how it is for other classes, but most Mages I see around my level have a dark blue pet.

[Rottening]

Honestly, I was thinking my summons were getting better in the past few days, which leads me to believe it's 100% luck of the draw.

My level 24 necro pet summon never went higher than level22, which is to be expected. Yes, there were days when I would summon them over and over, then there are days I would get 3 level22s in a row. Seems to be the same case as my level29 summon, though I was SHOCKED when it spit out a few green cons.

All seems like a crapshoot to me, but I'm not sure any changes need to be made.

[azeth]

This thread makes me wish I was home to upload my parser results from poSky last night wherein a mage pet named "Kaber" rapes everyone's DPS :p

everyone but our man Sochin ofc.

[guineapig]

This thread makes me wish I was home to upload my parser results from poSky last night wherein a mage pet named "Kaber" rapes everyone's DPS :p

everyone but our man Sochin ofc.


What were your rogues and other monks doing?

[azeth]

note these numbers are very much Sky-specific but:

Monk high - 35 dps, avg 25
Rogue high - 41 dps, avg 24
Warrior high - 28 dps, avg 22

Kabers avg over ~4 mobs including Soul Tamers 27 dps.

When i say Sky-specific, I'm identifying yellow con-red con trash mobs with extremely rounded mitigation. Rogue dps is kind of gloomy in classic on mobs with good mitigation given our DPS (for most us discluding Otto's primary/secondary, and I'd imagine others using Bone Razor/Vexthorne) is so burst (backstab) heavy. That 41 dps high you see for rogues was from me personally where I landed 5/7 backstab attempts ranging from 75 dmg to 289dmg on a lvl 52 isle 4 Soul Carrier.

[quellren]

Taking a break from my Shaman, I decided to play my lil necro a bit.

Camping Cordelia Minster in NK and I'm still getting the feel of the pet again.
The part you care about: my pet dies alot, cuz I'm bad, but I've never had to summon a 4th pet to get a max lvl one (hits for 22).

I dunno.

[Slade_the_Slide]

Summoned nothing but yellow pets yesterday.

[thefloydian]

Since posting this I've been able to summon max-lvl pets, but it was really weird there for a few hours.

[Dangermouse]

As a necromancer, this isn't a new issue for me. The last dark blue pet i've seen was at level 8 or 9.

Before level 10 there are no light blue cons ... things lower than your level are either green or dark blue.

[Haynar]

Since posting this I've been able to summon max-lvl pets, but it was really weird there for a few hours.

Didn't everyone figure out, that the level of pet you summon is tied to your post counts?

Geesh you guys are slow on the uptake.

H