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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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Oh for me I just melee’d next to the pet or sometimes meditated, I didn’t spend much mana per mob, just something like our DOT to pull it usually if I recall. The killrate with the pet using a 2handed weapon is so high that even losing 50% exp it’s still worth it IMO
I don’t think you are missing any particular strat. It’s the same for mages too, their pets at early levels are taking 50% exp per kill since they don’t have the mana to be able to dps race it. When the pet is holding a 2hander and how strong pets are with those at early levels even losing 50% isn’t so bad when you can just keep chain killing almost non-stop
If you don’t have one just buy a few rusty 2handers off a vendor. It’s def worth it
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I gotcha. Yep I gave my yellow con animation a rusty halberd at level 4 or so and just went to town on the mobs in Nektulos. I was also working on a side thing where I'd slaughter swathes of animals and spiders, making silk strings, turning the LQ/MQ pelts into leather padding to use later, and saving the HQ pelts. I had something to do and even though the exp felt miniscule I felt like I was still making progress and getting something done. Now that I'm level 8 though and those same spiders/animals aren't yielding exp I just feel...kinda lost, if that makes sense. I'm not really sure where to go now.
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Originally Posted by Taiku
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You're gonna basically be a worse mage until you get to like level 25-30 when you can start holding charm reliably, buckle up.
Best bet is to try to find someone to level with, can use root to "distance agro" so you can step in and take a hit so your pet starts attacking.
I tried to skip as much as I could of the lower leveling with lots of grinding quests, lightstones in NK, bandits in WK and then raiders in NK/SK for bandit sashes.
There are some caster NPCs that you can kill very reliably as well at certain levels for solo play without charming as well, for example:
Happ Findlefinn (35 mage) at butcherblock docks, no faction hit or assist from anyone.
You can charm him so his pet despawns, med back up, break charm and mez.
Now with your helpless mage target you can Nuke > Mez > lowest lvl tash, and then repeat until dead.
The tash is to re-engage agro so in case your mez memblurs, which it does often, he doesn't start regenerating.
I would suggest setting up GINA if you haven't yet, there are probably good guides to do so, but to set up a timer so you know exactly when he's going to spawn so you can mez him before he buffs/summons a pet!
One of the most fun groups around the 25-30s is the High Keep basement goblins, charming Osargen (22 rogue prisoner) is a great low stakes learning experience for group charming and how powerful a rogue pet can be!
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I am using my experience as a mage to try and compare things to an enchanter. For instance, I took a side break from the enchanter recently and picked up my 45 mage to go help my sister out. She plays a paladin and I took it on myself to go camp the shin lord in Guk to get her a ghoulbane. The whole time I was wondering "how would I go about this if I were on my enchanter?" wondering about the tactics I'd need to know later. I had to explore Guk a bit at the time since I never fought the shin lord before and had no idea what mobs were in the area and what tactics I'd need to know.
It seems daunting right now, to be honest. As an example...
Mage: Summon pet, equip pet, see mob, sic pet on mob, nuke.
While the enchanter would need to...
Identify appropriate mob to charm in the zone. Maintain control of mob. Have plan in case mob dies. Keep things CCed. Etc etc. It seems really difficult. Maybe I'm thinking too much, maybe I'm just wrong in general, but how *would* an enchanter be doing the same thing in my mage's situation? There are a lot of zones I don't know too well in the game, never really having the opportunity to explore and kill in them. It took a while to find my way to the shin lord's room. Still kind of does. Place is confusing as hell. And that's just one zone...
I'll keep all that in mind. I am a bit daunted by the whole GINA thing to be honest, and having to have extensive knowledge of every zone to know precisely what to charm. What does one do if the mob isn't available? Stuff like that.