Editing Angelyz's Guide to Venomancers (section)

==Venomancer Startup==

The venomancer starts out as an arcane class with a skill known as "Venomous Scarab" which is the veno's fastest channeling nuke throughout the game from beginning to end. At level 3 the veno is given the opportunity to do a quest that allows the player to choose between two different starting pets as well as one free pet bag slot to hatch the pet into.

Of these two pets, you will have to choose between a Varicose Scorpion and a Sharptooth Wolf. It is my strong recommendation that you choose the Varicose Scorpion for reasons that I describe in "[[Angelyz's Guide to Best Venomancer Pets]]".

So now that you have chosen your scorpion, it is time to begin using it and leveling up. Try to stay focused on doing quests in order to gain your levels, as this will level you very fast as opposed to just killing stuff without a quest reward, known as "grinding".

When using your pet for the first time, you will notice that it's picture (when summoned) will change to green and so on. This means that you need to feed your pet, and it is something that you do not want to neglect. Neglecting to feed your pet will result in loss of the pets stats such as his physical attack stat, amount of EXP gained per kill, and so on, which causes your pet to do less damage and take more damage in battle as well as not gain as much EXP.

Pet food is sold at any "Pet Skill Trainer" under the "Goods" or "Pet Items" option. I recommend buying water and sesame oil. Water is low cost and is good for a quick feeding when your pet gets hungry. Sesame oil is good for gaining back the loyalty he loses when he dies, as well as filling his loyalty to full when you first get a pet.

You may be wondering what the loyalty is for now that I have mentioned it. Loyalty is what decreases your pets stats as he gets more and more hungry. The more hungry he is, the less loyal he is to you. So try to keep his loyalty bar full at all times.

I would strongly recommend spending a little bit of cash to buy yourself 4 Mystical Tome Pages from the cash shop, followed by 3 Mystical Tome fragments from a player or the auctioneer (Auction House). These 7 items will allow you to manufacture a Mystical Tome at the Tome forge in the City of a Thousand Streams. By equipping a Mystical Tome in your inventory (no matter what the stats on it are), it prevents your pet from ever getting hungry, thus, saving you loads of coin on pet food throughout the entire game. Assuming you took this advice and have a Tome equipped, the only time your pet will ever lose loyalty will be when he dies. So in this case, you will not need water, only sesame oil. When a pet dies it loses 100 loyalty, sesame oil adds 100 loyalty. As long as you keep it's loyalty bar full, you will only consume 1 oil per death. Neat huh? Moving on....