Pet Food Gamma back to normal...

[Gman]

I think (havent tried it yet)

Well, we knew it wouldnt last... for any who were able to take advantage of this, after the Dec 8 update, pet food gamma was glitched and restored FULL hp for your pet, but they fixed it in todays patch. Back to Pet food Zeta I guess.

Anyone know if any of the pet food has been modified? I know zeta biscuits were healing about 364 instead of the regular 250, wonder if that stayed the same.

[Frumply]

Didn't even realize this was a bug until I heard it in the update.

Just for reference, Zeta was healing 412 for me w/ AF on; unless the entire calculations for pet healing's been modified (and the gamma healing full was a bug that resulted from that), values will probably return to more normal values...

Oh, and thanks to Coeurl meat's use in curry and such you'll be better off using Pet Epsilon again. i think most servers have experienced slight decreases in prices for cocatrice meat, so this would be no problem at all...

[Gman]

How much does epsilon restore? I'm too cheap to use it ^^

I know Zeta is a much higher level Cooking recipe, but i guess that doesnt reflect in the HP restored...

[sudo]

actually even with the gamma bug, there was a cap in how much it would heal.

I got myself a lv 71 torma and got it down to like 3% hp. Poped a gamma and it did not restore 100%. I capped out at 3088 or something like that. My pet had 95% hp after I used it. I had never broken 4k hp restore with gamma even with glitch.

now gamma does a measly 130 hp.

Just something interesting.

[Fooma]

I healed 4800hp on a steelshell~

[Beastlord]

Congrats on 52 GMAN!!!! I did a little lvling on BST this pass holiday, I didnt stay long enough to lvl though, but nice to see you still have fate in bst, my friend.

[Gman]

Hey man!! welcome back.

Ya, I've been dedicating most of my time to leveling BST or WHM for sub. Once I accomplished a couple other goals I set (RDM to 65 and cooking to 60) decided to focus on BST. I have a duo partner and we level BST together all the time. Right now I am about 2k away from 53, and loving it.

[Beastlord]

Yeh having a duo partner makes a world of difference through those lvls, I was fortunate enough to have 2 so in case 1 didnt show, I'd just hit up the other one.

[Gman]

Right now we are kinda struggling for a good spot. We exp grinded in Crawlers Nest for several hours on Saturday, and got about 8k exp, but it was kinda slow, with our max exp being about 144 on 1 or 2 occasions. Made lots of gil from dark crystals, shooms, etc, and got Scythe and Axe capped, so it was worth it for that.

When we hit 53 I think we might try Helm Beetles, but I'm thinking we may need a 3rd person for that. Our best exp was in East Altepa killing gobs in the early 40's. Wish we could get that exp back. Antican Secutors in West Altep would be perfect, but there are no good pets to use... beetles are too weak, and take too much damage.

Only other option is *gulp* Garlaige Basement...

[Lurch]

at the moment you can use funnel bats in garlaige behind the first door, and then the bats in the basement at 53. Helms will be a pain, even with three. With no means of dispelling their evasion boost, and being quite a bit under their level... they suck, lol.

[Beastlord]

Garliage is a deathtrap with no escape, sure its great at points but pts and bats uncharming while fighting bombs are tooo deadly for my taste. At that lvl you can check That area dungeon below Sandoria, Beaulette O. I think its named. Put sneak and other nessacary buffs on before you drop down in the hole, Check the slimes in the area for a Even match, charm, 2hr and re-cast sneak, then make all right turns until you get to the stairs leading up to the zone to west ron. Theres a safe camp and is perfectly duoable at that lvl and 53. Its pretty nice there

[Gman]

Ya it seems Garlaige is probably our only option at this point if we want good exp. Of course if we fight bomb types, we have to stay away, so we sacrifice skilling up for good exp... reasonable tradeoff I guess.

Question about your comment Lurch: "and then the bats in the basement at 53"

Why must you wait ill 53 to use funnel bats in the basement? They are level 51-55 mobs, so couldnt you start at 51?? I have zero experience leveling off bombs, so maybe I'm missing something. Are the 51 bats just too weak for hellmines?

Thanks for the tips ^^

EDIT: posted this before I saw beastlords post. Maybe we give B.O a try as well.

[Beastlord]

Its HARD to find even match bats in that area at 51-52, sure the bats in Garliage might range from 51-55 but the lvl 51 bats are behind the banishing doors and the higher lvl bats are in the dropdown hole where pts eat em up even after they see you using it just to piss you off.

[Lurch]

yeah, the bats there are 51-55, but the lowest that pop in the basement are 53 :/

Bostineaux is alright, but be prepared to be forced to zone at times due to mutiple failed charms, killing chains now and then.

Bombs are generally very safe in a duo, and yes, you do miss on the skilling up while fighting them... but you get to play baseball now and then when they don't blow up

I never actually exped behind the first gate, we just sucked it up in crawler's nest until 53, when we started doing bats > beetles in the basement of garlaige. You'll be able to take on hellmines when you can charm a few more mobs for safety, or you can be ballsy and take them on right away. You will find that parties camping in the passage to the room that they are in tend to get very touchy about bst in the area.

It can also become VERY crowded down there, making it very difficult to find pets. When you can start to take on the jugs, those tend to be very good exp... but pretty slow at 59, trying to hit 60. Parties will try to pull your pets as they are healing now and then also, some will be accomidating of you if you talk with them, other's won't.

goodluck, it's a pain.

[Gman]

Ok thanks guys. I'm so close to 53 now its not a big deal. I can get it in an hour-1.5 hours in CN leveling off beetles and exos.

So should we avoid the Hellmines at 53 and stick to beetles, or try both? If we get EM funnel bats at 53 will they last long enough to cause a self destruct? Keep in mind we will have 2 EM bats on the bomb.

EDIT: I guess if the bats die, we need to struggle to find another pet, so that could be dangerous....