Editing Venomancer Luring (section)

=== Cacti, Eldergoth, and Other Ranged Pets ===

There are many advantages to ranged pets, when pulling it boils down to three things:
# They don't need to get as close to the monster, so they can often avoid getting close to the pack and so won't take damage.
# That gives them a greater total range, meaning that the monsters starts further away from you, giving you longer to deal with it.
# Eldergoths have a nice obvious attack animation, so you can easily time when to unsummon them.

Now, you have to be careful of a few things, you can't have a skill selected, or the pet will try to get right up close to use it first (which sort of defeats the object)

And, of course, you do still need to be near enough that the monster can see you and will come to you when your pet is unsummoned.

It should be noted that mobs with weaker ranged magic attacks will use that instead of their stronger physical attack (such as Yan the Traitor) if your pet only uses ranged attacks.  So for certain mobs, this will allow your ranged pet to tank tougher mobs than your tank pet can.

The higher the tame level on the pet, the longer it's range is. That said, the farthest range isn't close to that of the veno herself. The Eden Cactopods have a range of approximately 15 meters, where as the level 4 cactopods have a range of approximately 6 meters. (Those distances were eye-balled, not measured). Pulling with a ranged pet can make things a little safer for both you and your pet.