Hello fellow UO fanatics! I've recently been training pet skills till my bonded pets were griefed/attacked with EQ till death. I've been using a large tower, with my pets in the very center of the roof. Question is can I put ovens down to block EQ or do I just need a bigger house to escape the EQ threat? I haven't tested EQ's range but, it is hitting me from six tiles away currently. I know EQ won't kill a player in a house but it seems to kill a pet easily. What size house would I need to elimante the grief factor if ovens won't block EQ?
Need a bigger house, sadly, to get out of EQ range. Alternatively, if you're just training two pets like dragons or something, you could set up a second character with bandages and have them work up veterinary by healing the pets as well. Even then, it should take a lot of EQ to kill pets like dragons, such that it should never outpace what a GM Vet can do (even alternating between dragons). Were these dragons or some other animal?
Two dragons sparring would get decimated pretty quick with someone casting EQ's on the outside. You need more than 1 vet to outpace the damage between two dragons anyways.
Ah, if they're wrestling, yeah. I was thinking Magery training. Best thing to do is to spawn a Shadow Iron Elemental and lure it into your house. Have your dragons wrestle on it. It will hit one of them back, which you will slowly need to heal, and you'll also slowly need to heal the elemental. But it is very easy to keep up. 5xGM very easily, but Magery will top out around 83 or 84 with this method. I can try to whip up a short guide on pet training in the near future.
Thanks for the info! Guess I'll have to go house shoppin, wish I had bought or placed a bigger pad prior to the housing market's hyperinflation! The time I lost my bonded pets I had two gm lore/vet, dex capable of 4 second healing characters healing them. I think the combined fighting and EQ did them in. I usually have my bandie timer at 8 seconds which I found is sufficent to keep up once their mana is low (especially on high magery pets (one vet per animal). Now I run healing at 4 second intervals which uses a lot more bandies for minor heals.
When their mana is low, they will max out the magery they can gain. You need them to have 20+ mana to get to 90 Magery (Ebolt, Explosion), and 40+ mana to get to GM (so they can gain off of Flamestrikes). I am certain you can set this up safely in a Tower, I don't think it's necessary to buy a bigger house just for this.
I don't know for certain but you should be able to secure your pet setup using stone ovens. Lots of them. I remember having seen a detailed guide on how to set up the anti eq/ms griefing protection in custom houses which should work in regular houses aswell but I just can't seem to find it right now. Also it was posted in another shards forum I believe so not gonna link it anyway but you should be able to google it probably.
