Editing Venomancer Luring (section)

=== Fast Monsters ===

The monster is too fast for you to get back and resummon your pet?  It's hitting on you (and not in a good way)?

My friend, you need 'slow'.  Slow is a wonderful pet skill, causing the monsters run-speed to be drastically reduced.  Great when soloing.  (In a group, it's not so much of a problem, because someone else will usually pull the monster off of you.)

Even better, some pretty good luring pets have have the slow skill built in.  Many wolves have it (though not your starting wolf) and they are good luring pets anyway, since they generally have a high movement speed (again, not your starting wolf).

It's not a perfect skill though.  First, slow alone won't cause the monster to come running, you need to do damage.  A useful trick here is to click (or use the Alt+2/3/4 key) one of the skills which is ''not'' the default skill when you send the pet in.  This will cause your pet to use that skill first, and then the default skill.  Which should be enough.

Second, slow can be resisted.  Monsters with a high magic resist will often ignore it, in which case another debuff might be more useful for that pull, such as Threaten (reduce p.attack). If you aren't the puller the first time you fight the mob/boss, you can throw the genie skill Tangling Mire on it. If the red "Resist!" text pops up above it's head, then the slow part of the skill was resisted. You can then make the mental note that the Slow skill will be worthless on that target in future pulls.

Slow doesn't last very long, so make sure you unsummon the pet quickly after it starts to cast it.  It is best for your pet to use its attack skill first, and then the slow, for this reason.

Another useful skill in this situation is ''pounce''.  Unfortunately a rare (and therefore costly) skill, it has a chance to stun the monster - which stops it attacking and freezes it in place for a short time.  Since pounce ''does'' deal damage, it works well for luring.  However, the stun effect often fails.  The easiest way to try out pounce is to get your paws on a Shadou cub. Also note that bosses are immune to stun.