So far pets were not gaining experience from quests that it's master was completing. I haven't heard anything suggesting that this may have change in new update.
Up till now we had to make few alts to level baby pets from lv25 to 45. Some players even have used for that purpose academy chars to level them by killing raidbosses.
I don't think he is interested in leveling pet till 99 right now :p His concern is that when he will finish newbie quests the pet will be 20 levels behind and won't gain any xp.
Yes this was my problem ... the fact that i'll have to do same old grinding if i wanna have pet and miss out on the quests.
Well it's not really an issue i guess , i've heard that the xp required to level up will be less across all levels.
Anyway ... how much p.atk does a Fenrir at max level have? ( found some online answer to these questions but is anything changed? They were discussing this in hellbound ... how much p.atk does this pet have right now? )
EDIT: i found a picture from L2J server with buffed fenrir level 85 - 5.7k p.atk
Is this comparable to what you'd get on retail?
Also i used the search function and saw that you can level pets to 99 in God , so the p.atk will go much higher than that :D
I think Fenrir it is work the trouble of leveling up
Ok so i started to level up a wolf.
In the begining i was level 17 , wolf was level 15 , all OK.
I did the first class quest and no other quest after that.
Right now i am level 27 , wolf is level 21. = already 6 levels diference.
At this rate when i will be about level 52 , wolf will be about level 31 or less and forever lost to me , this is by doing no quests at all except class changing quests.
1.Are we supposed to create an alternative toon ever 30 levels to be able to keep leveling up the wolf?
2.Do the pets require less XP at later levels? (anyone has an XP table? - or is the xp table of pet same as for toons?)
3.Maybe we are supposed to delevel ourselves often in order to lose XP so pet can catch up.
Why is this aspect of the game so imbalanced?
4.Is the 20 levels limit between master and pet a myth (where it says that if your pet is lower than 20 levels it cannot be sumoned) ?
5.Will i be able to sumon my pet even if i am level 60 and wolf is level 35 ?
"A character of level 84 or lower will not gain XP or SP from killing a monster that is 11 or more levels higher or lower than the character’s level. A character of level 85 or higher will receive an XP/SP penalty when hunting monsters that are three or more levels higher or lower than the character’s level. The penalty increases proportionally to the level difference."
My wolf and my alt are both level 61. I get 0.21%/kill, wolf gets 0.06%/kill. So it's about 3 to 1. The wolf gets zero quest XP, and no vitality.
So here is what you need to do:
1. You must grind, no questing.
2. You will need 3 characters - each character takes the wolf and levels, after all 3 level the wolf will level. Alternatively, you can use one character and die many many times.
Even with quest XP, the pets wont level very fast, and vitality only gets them to 2/3 the speed.
Wolves are very strong, so it's hard to level them. Not sure I think that's a bad thing.