as with all focus items this focus need only be worn during the casting and compleation of the spell, once the spell *in this case your pet being created* is compleat the focuse is no longer nessary.
I was lucky enough to win these last night when my guild was clearing VT. I know it may seem discouraging when you make a pet and dont see the "soandso item begins to glow" etc message, but i can assure you they work when equipped.
The unfocused lvl 65 necro pet's max hit is 79 dmg, with the gaunts, the pet hits for a max of 81 dmg. Also, when dueling the pet w/ my druid bot ive noticed it takes at least 75% of another nuke to kill it, denoting a significant hp gain of ~900hp or so, equivalent or superior to the LDoN pet augment.
I got these on Tunare last week. The spell effect works fine. *click* Pet gone.
My Gloves then state that Minion of Darkness is a "SPELL EFFECT." This is driving me crazy for two reasons. One, when you cast a pet there is no indication that the gloves supposed focus effect is activated. Two, during combat there is no kind of text that gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling that the gloves work!
P.S. Hey DEV..the floors in Vex Thal are still broken.
rumor has it that as of 3/26/04 patch the Aug and Gloves will stack.... since i only have the gloves i cant say if they do stack.... even if they do its just asking to get Beaten with teh Nerf stick
We have cleared VT in upwards of 6 times.. no gloves.
BTW, this mob is the suck. Much more HP then AHR, Hits pretty damn hard, and if your DPS not upto speed, you will have re-pops durring fight.. Eoms at that. have fun
Is Teh Suck. Also was bugged last night, wiped 3 times on it w/o re-popps. Clerics were OOM 10% into fight and Necros were soon to follow. 40% is as low as we could get him. He even summoned someone from PoTranq (aye bugged).
Are there any other focus items for post 49 pets? This is simply not an item i will ever realistically have a shot at getting. Anyone know of any others that are obtainable without a raid force?
Is there any focus items like this for under 49 pets? I know there is for the mage's out of Temple of Sol Ro, but was wondering if there was anything like it for Necros.
Yes there is. It is called Encyclopedia Necrothurgia. It drops in Plane of Hate, I believe off the Ashenbone Broodqueen or something (named ashenbone drake). I got mine off the original Innoruuk and haven't really kept tabs on the new versions of PoH much, so I might be a little off.
Its a 30% pet focus not a 20% like it says above. Base lvl 65 necro pet has exactly 4000hps. With this focus he has exactly 5200. This was determined very accurately and methodical multiple times for accuracy. pet also hits for 81 points of damage whereas summoners boon hits for 80.
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This only has to do with what focus it is and where the focus effect is on a relative scale-- it doesn't mean that a pet's hp / atk / etc will be increased by 20%.
For reference: DPoC- summoner's boon: Unknown #167 (100/15/0) GoDS- minion of darkness: Unknown #167 (100/20/0) SoAS- minion of eternity: Unknown #167 (100/25/0) CCA- ritual summoning: Unknown #167 (100/30/0) ? - minion of discord: Unknown #167 (100/35/0)
These do in Fact act as a pet focus.. friend of mine on CT has a pair.. it even works on the magician Epic pet..
said it added 4 more pts of dmg to output (traditionally that means 2 more lvls: 2 pts per lvl of pet at a given casting lvl.. course they've dinked with pet dmg so much i'm not even sure that still accurate)
and he said the epic pet went from big.. to Huge in physical size.
all the other focus items from sol ro quests had reclaim energy on em too.. so dont let that throw you off. the pet focus items Never say 'makes your pet strong' right square on them heh
That depends on the class and pet that was cast. Reclaim energy returns a percentage of pet HP in the form of mana. A 65 mage pet reclaimed after focus from these gloves will return SIGNIFICANTLY more mana than the pet casting cost.
With the Magician AA "Improved Reclaim" it changes the formula for calculating how much mana is returned from this spell. With the AA, it becomes based on the amount of mana spent to cast whichever pet is about to die.
If I were playing without the help of spoiler sights like Allakhazam's, how would I be able to tell that this item, or the other small mage focus items had any effect on my pets? Did mages just discover these things through lots of testing and experimentation?
Pet focus effects had three main effects that you would immediately notice. First is the size. Focused pets are considerably larger than non-focused pets. Second is speed. Focused pets run at SoW speed (though I'm not sure if Mage pets get natural speed boosts other than the Mage pet SoW spell). Thirdly is damage. Focused pets have a higher max hit (all hits, including backstab, I believe).
>Quote< Did mages just discover these things through lots of testing and experimentation?>Quote<
Yes and no. Some things like pet focus items are obvious, because they make your pets larger in size. Other things show "hidden" (for lack of a better word) characteristics when you cast Identify on them. The rest of these things are usually discovered through programs like ShowEQ or SIN.