other benefits to lots of bells as pets
1. more pets = more wishes. you get a wish from drinking from fountain. very low chance. lots of pets leads to inevitible wishes eventually. First wish should be seven league boots, 2nd aurora ring, 3rd happy bed or barbeque whatever your missing, potition of potential (eventually you will get these in shops), then get astral light pens.
2. aggressive range: you will hear the gun fire and they will find mobs. makes hunter quests faster and less likely to have YASD cause you dont notice something and the fire is loud.
3. Very fast: when i do trading i load up with 1000 weight of goods. Lowers me to 10 speed on world map. Always hit rogue bosses. Like to use mist of frailness (lowers pv/dv) on rogue boss. since slow everything is usually dead before I move again. Note you have to manage your fame for this. Higher fame = harder bosses. You get blue capsule pills from rogue boss encounters that you use to get Kaneda Bike (see previous post) and goods to sell. Very profitable. Plus passes time faster, so useful if you have farm/ranch/gain salary.
4. Panic Quests Easier: get these at 30k fame. These are useful because its like a hunter quest in the town. Best in Palmia/Noyel due to Altar. Altar resets to neutral. So you convert and you get 5x normal amount when convert. Great for god hopping for items. Its hard to spot monsters in Palmia due to size and hallways. So most people due the altar and leave. Huge Fame hit so you can lose the panic quests. With bells they spot the mosts and make noise since aggressive and range. So much faster.
Downside:
1. get lots of aliens: lots of pets drinking = aliens. Keep dye,poison,sulfuric acid. give to pet to kill child. Low level bells with 1 life usually die from this. So do in town and resurrect. Cheap to ressurrect at low levels. as you get stronger and find rubynus equipment (raises life and hp), they don't die as much. so less hassle.
2. look the same: this is annoying. Pet interface is lousy. press 'i' change name to change names. I name based on what they do or have. One that does breakfast is called 'bell break', one that needs certain limbs/skills/eq, gets that name. Change image too. This is still hassle. Tag Organizaton lets you have 2 pets in 1 space. Easier to manage. Breaks when they die. They will die fairly often earlier because you can get to harder dungeons. losing them and ressurecting is more profitable, but a pain to redo tags.
3. game runs slower: due to their speed/teleporting. if you want to train spells, often better to tell t hem to wait at town. Also when you overload cargo and drop to speed 10 on world map. game runs a little slower. Kind of annoying. No reason to show on world map. I send back to town when i trian performance too since they slow the processing down since they get alot of turns for each one you do and the game moves them around.
4. Train Magic Control: I use a lich claymore, that is heavy on spells. Best way to train magic control is to blast area affect spells with lots of pets. if magic control is lower than your spell pets take damage. Not alot of cushion with bells due to low HP. This improves over time as you get them rubynus eq and they level wtih more damage reduction. During mid-game it gets to be too expensive to resurrect them, so i dont train this. One tip is to blast 1 area affect spell and gets its potential down low and keep it low to train magic control and not level it. Magic control is critical to area affect spells. Overcome over time. I just don't use it for a while.
I am level 62. My Bells range from level 35 to 49. Levelled with gene engineering. I also have 1 murder knight (unique in elona+ see wiki ) as tank, 1 giraffe as mount, 1 demon for my shop (see elona+ for best pets to put in shops), 1 rabbit (on ranch. used to train performance some) Just finished the main game and exploring South Tyris.
My build: started off melee fighter. Claymore is good fighter early. Low charisma so only 1 pet. Charisma is easy to level. So got more pets as charisma went up. Converted to Ekhetel for the charisma bonus mainly so i can get max pets (maxes at 75 charisma). Also since a mage, eventually was able to buy Domination spell from Mage guild so can dominate stronge rmobs and gene engineer to pets to level. i stockpiled my spell books for a while. started reading easy ones. Identiified them to look for blessed ones. Always used scroll of knowledge (before could cast lots of knowledge spells) raised learning so easier to read.
now I wear medium armor and carry dagger. My cast success maxes at 92%.
got the tip for lich claymore on here. Very good build. Just need to build up charisma since it starts low.
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