Yet another pet question :(

[Teh]

Ok, so yesterday, I hit 38. well, actually 39 to but the question is, which pet is the bet for tanking? I have Undying Adherent and Rotting Thrall, both adept 3. When I possess my minion and hit "p" to look at their hp's, it all varies. sometimes the thrall has more hp's (both with same buffs) sometimes the adherent does. Sometimes it shows (for example) 4650/2980 for hps. The last test I did went like this...Undying Adherent 4664 hps                              1136 power                              650 att                              mitigation 1120                              avoidance 31.2                              strength    141                              agility         134                              stamina     151Rotting Thrall                              hitpoints 4844                              power 1176                              attack 650                              mitigation 1120                              avoidance 31.2                              strength  141                              agility  134                              stamina 151So basically, a pet thats ten levels higher has 200 more hps? I hope I am doing something wrong. Also, is this my new tank pet?Any advice is appreciated.<div></div>

[DwarvesR]

<P>You pet levels with you, so your level 38 Rotting Thrall is only *1* level higher than the level 37 (capped) Undying Adherent.  The way the pets work is that if you have an Ad3 pet, it is *the same pet* as you level up, even when the name and graphic on it are replaced.  AS somone stated in a different thread:</P> <P><BR> </P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> The basic facts are simple...<BR><BR>There's really only 1 pet progression path.... Pets level from 1 - x, at the same pace is its owner. App1 - Master1, pets skills get boosted by a good percentage. <BR><BR>At certain levels, pets get renamed, and the older named pet simply stops growning from that point on... the new named pet simply picks up the progression from that point onward. <BR><BR>The results of this is that a L23 Master 1 pet will have better CAs and attack than a L24 new pet with Adept 1 rated skills. <BR><BR>Which is better... that depends on what you're fighting. The L23 pet will be blue to you at L24... wo if you're fighting L24 mobs, just know that your old pet is going to hit then as if they were yellow mobs... becasue to your pet, they are. If you're fighting blue mobs, then your pet will see them as even. <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>What this essentially means is that if you have an Ad3 pet and replace it with an Ad1 pet at a "replacement point" you are actually reducing the effectiveness of your pet.  Eventually you still need to use the replacement, though, due to mob cons.  For example, at 37, a level 41 mob is yellow, but a 42 is orange.  If at 38 you choose to continue to use your level 37 pet, it will be at a vastly reduced effectiveness against that 42 since it would be orange to the pet (even though you would see it as yellow).</P> <P>I <A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=30&message.id=23721" target=_blank>posted a thread </A>about this somewhere down the page (which I just saw that you posted in too but I'm gonna type this all out as though you hadn't seen it anyway), where I replaced Master pets with Adept 3's, then took screenies of the pet stats.  The Adept 3 pets weren't as good as the Master pets they replaced, yet due to the mob cons I still use the replacements anyway so that the pet can actually *hit* the mob.  Plus as you level and the pet levels with you, it eventually *does* become better than the old pet.</P> <P>As to why the HP's show up "higher than max" sometimes, and other times show that higher number as the full amount. . . .nobody seems to know.  It's been asked on several threads, but I've not seen anoyone able to figure it out or seen a dev response as to why it is that way.</P>

[Teh]

Aye, sorry about that. I had already made this post when I read yours. You cleared up alot for me though and I really appreciate it.<div></div>