Originally Posted by
sylph
I think my difficulty is doing it without the smc. For most characters companions come when you're higher than level 1. I typically get my first decent companion somewhere between level 6 and level 12. I can get it a few levels on wilderness squares, but before long it's stopped really levelling, and I start taking it into dungeons.
Typically, a pet will kill every monster I order it to in a single turn, but at some point a monster that I totally thought it could defeat will just insta-kill it.
For example, I just lost an experienced pet that was dealing out 4 attacks doing about 8-40 damage, to a giant ant warrior!
If I've spent 45 minutes helping feed this thing xp and it still can't kill a giant ant warrior, I feel there must be a faster way of doing this?
If you're up to level 6-12 already, is there any reason you couldn't use a stronger pet to start with? Is this for some specific challenge?
If your pet has decent PV and you have a light source, gremlin cave is probably okay for this.
I'm pretty sure that pet XP is essentially independent of the monster that they kill, btw. Killing 100 jackals is better than killing 3 balors.
Hoping to win with every class, doomed. Archer, Barbarian, Bard, Beastfighter, Druid, Elementalist, Farmer, Fighter, Monk, and ULE Priest down.