Help. Newbie tamer roadmap

So i want a good tank pet for soloing. Now to make a summary of my research on pet building(man it's so dang complicated) please correct if i'm wrong.

Step 1 tame a low magic pattern/magic weapon/genius/devoted

Step 2 keep fusing pets with a copy of above said stats but with rage atk/first aid/hp gain skills.

Step 3 max level all the pet skills

Step 4 tame a high lvl cap pet and repeat step 1 and 2 then fuse when the 2nd pet is level capped

Step 5 repeat step 4 till you fuse a total of 4 pets


Welp. That's about it. So am i ready to be a tamer?

 

you can only inherit 1 skill from each pet when you fuse. whenever a pet has more than 1 skill, you have to discard all other skills on the next fusion. waiting to cap all skills is a waste of time.

for best results, both pets should be at max level.

the fusion count will be 5 after the first repetition.
fusing two fused pets will add up the fusion count of both.

select 1 skill as your main skill. get it to lv10 and always select it for inheritance. (if you didn't reach lv10 before the level cap, go with what you have and try again on the next pet)

you may get a 2nd lv10 skill from the other pet, but only until the next fusion step.
so aiming for lv10, especially after reaching the level cap, is wasted effort.

preferably your inheritance lv10 skill should be a 2nd or 3rd tier skill, since those are harder to obtain.
1st tier skills can be learned with 100% success in training, so you can always reaquire them after each fusion step.

 

Tank pet essentials:
Magic based pet- good for low attack pattern with justice nature(high ampr). Devoted get more aggro per normal attack.

Matk>atk- rage attack is a hybrid skill it takes form of the higher value of the two. Sadly, attack based rage attack tend to miss.

High lvl cap as possible- to add more vit to the meat

If your target pet app start at low cap, work your way up and never down. Fuse as low as possible(coz capping a pet is a b!+ç# grind!)

Rage attack is the best active skill. Everything else best to be passive skills, hp boost for more hp, cover for insta healable barrier, mp absorb for ampr,mp boost
Steer away from hp absorb, and hide passive(since this passive will kill you). They are passive for attack build pets

 

Wow thanks for the awesome insight guys! Really useful keypointers there. Definitely simplified stuff and saved up a lot of research and trial and error for me. Thank god for active forums.

So ideally for new tank pets i should get a low lvl magic based pet with ideal pattern and stuff and slowly work my way up by fusing and leveling till i can inherit a t2/t3 core skill. Once i have it i can now aim for up to date high lvl pets for upping my vit stats?

 

Not specifically low level. If your pet can land a high level rage attack consistently it is good enuf for the job. Magic based pet's advantage(in comparison to same level) is more ampr(cos it can land normal attack, which can be boosted also with justice nature that add ampr in normal attacks) and/or more +aggro(more hits more aggro, can be boosted by devoted nature that give more +aggro at normal attack landed)

 

Hmmm so i finally got the balls to start training one. I went with a reviver support build pet with sly nature (poro app) since it seems to be the least time consuming of all the builds (not needing too much meat). And from my understanding, i could just change to tank setup when my pet gets meaty enough for ulti runs.

Now i have a few more questions.
1. If i had inherited 2 skills already and i don't select any inheritance for the next fusion will i get to keep the old inherit skills?

2. How does skill priority works?
Assuming i had encourage(200mp?) And armor break(600mp) will my sly natured pet never use the armor break and will it just keep spamming encourage?

3. Is armor break a long range skill and is it 100% chance? And does my pet need sneak to help not aggro the monster?

 

no.
the fused pet will inherit 1 select skill from each pet. if you don't select any, you get none.

it will use skills whenever possible.
with full mp it will most likely use Shield Break, but if mp are depleted and it gets the chance to use Encourage before charging up enough mp for Shield Break, it will keep using Encourage.

skill range is equal to the pet's weapon range.
the chance to inflict Armor Break is 100% at lv10.
Stealth Attack is an attack skill that does not generate aggro for itself. every other attack or skill will generate aggro normally.

 

My pet has no skills whatsoever. Why is that? How do I fix it?

 

When you discipline pet, you can choose to learn skill or basic attribute.
Maybe you spend all discipline chance to enhance your pet basic stats?

It's faster to train new pet.
Or if you like some trait from your fail pet, you can fuse it with high lvl pet (need to spend much more time).

 

Oh my gosh.... I spent all my points for stats. Is that what you mean?