Runes of Magic US / AU

Quoted from "Purre;496502"

Actually, Tough Oak is capped at 50... max pdef is 55%.

I think the reason wd/m gets this instead of wd/d is because they want wd/m to be the jack-of-all-trades combo. We get good elites for each pet instead of focusing on just one.

I did this back in ch.3 when wd/m was considered the "magic" warden. It worked extremely well... but at the same time it was also ridiculously expensive. If you can stomach the cost/time it takes to gear 2 completely different sets, your wd/d should be able to solo almost everything (of course, not including bosses that require teamwork.... ex. chariot boss in hos).

Quoted from "camagic;496925"

best uses of pets as far as I can tell:

nature crystal:speed buff and aborb buff. Healing for wd/d-50 elite-heal build.
-mostly for when being dragged through instances for gear.
-meh for end-game

spirit of the oak:free phoniex redemption
-great for lvling
-does not scale well(at all) past lvl 50
-often absorbed for the hp/def bonus

oak walker:distraction
-way too squishy
-not enough dps
-skills might be useful if it did not die instantly
-often absorbed for the power of the oak

chiron of centaur: (wd/s only)dps
-decent dps
-very squishy, but since it is ranged attacker, slightly better chance of survival(.00000000001% instead of zero).

Quoted from "potato221;497054"

You really under sell how much Dps oak walker and chiron do. Walker can easily equal your Dps, and sometimes exceed it, and chiron regularly does 2-3 times my Dps. They also aren't supposed to be tanking, and they are immune to aoes, so it doesn't really matter how squishy they are. Plus Chiron gets quite a large amount of dodge, so is like a rogue in that aspect.

Quoted from "camagic;497769"

due to testing with the blood arrow, there was no change in chiron damage. so while the stats gained from a bow do affect your stats, and therefore the chiron, the recon/hatred are attached to the bow damage only.

Quoted from "Abaishtona;496393"

The only combo really worth having stronger tanking pet in my opinion is Wd/D. I mean if you're gonna have a tank, you have to have heals for that tank. Wd/D has heals down good, even the Elven Prayer skill (which has an elite that adds PDam and MDam to pets) is massively better on Wd/D (when using caster gear) than any other warden. I'm talking about one insta-skill that fully heals your pet due to the heal going through the healing formula.

Really the only thing Wd/D needs to have a meaty survivable tank pet is the elite that (for god knows what reason) Wd/M has: [Tough Oak]. This skill at lvl 70 adds +75% pdef to your Oak, and shortens the Punch CD to 4 seconds.

As a Wd/D, Once I max, I am going to make two sets of gear. One is going to have a lot of stats that can be passed on to pets, mostly focusing on HP/PDef/PAttack stacking, and the other set is going to be my mage DPS set to take advantage of [Earth Spirit Essence] which at lvl 55 with a 2.2kMdam staff does 118 crit white hits (imagine lvl 65+ 6-8k MDam staffs with mage gear:cool. When I am going to summon my "Tank" Oak, I will swap gear to the HP/PDef/PAttack, buff and summon, then switch back afterwards.

Maybe this way, my Oak can keep aggro and I can take advantage of the bonuses of a magic build on Wd/D. Still, if they increased the taunt modifier on Punch and gave Wd/D the Tough Oak elite, you would see a very viable solo pet class take form.

As it is, my Oak doesn't carry enough over from my mage gear to do ANY tanking at all. I eat the Oak, then summon nature crystal.

PLEASE GIVE WD/D TOUGH OAK AT LEAST. Lol.

Quoted from "PixelTzar;504336"

I play with a warden/scout they seem pretty good. though if your pets hp is down get the item set skill to quick cast pet and recast it. saves mana and it easyer then healing it