Editing Angelyz's Guide to Venomancers (section)

==Venomancer Strategy==

Now that you have a basic knowledge of starting, points, pets, and gear it is time to learn how to kick some monster butt!

First things first, your pet is your life once you reach about level 15 and up. This is where it gets fun... Send in your pet to kill something the same level as you or up to 5 levels higher to see how fast you're gonna have to heal him to keep him alive. By doing this simple test you will be able to judge whether you will have time to nuke in between heals or not. Keep in mind though, the higher level the mob is above you, the less time you have to nuke in-between pet heals. So be careful what you do and try not to overdo it.

One very important strategy is being able to pull a single mob out of a group. This is easy for the venomancer. Basically, what you do is send your pet after the mob of your choice and let it get one hit in on the mob, the second it gets that hit in I want you to stow the pet and then immediately re-summon it as fast as you can. By doing this, the mob that your pet hit will come after you and the rest of the mobs near it will reset. If you did this fast enough and from a safe distance from the mobs, you will have your pet back out before the mob gets to you. This allows you to click on your pets attack button to get the mobs attention back on the pet and off of you. This is called "[[Venomancer luring|luring]]" or "pulling".

Be very careful though, if you are standing too far away from the mobs when trying to single pull, your pet will magically appear back beside you and you will suddenly see all of those mobs running towards you. If this happens, stow your pet immediately before the mobs get to you and they will reset and run back except for the one that your pet hit. If your pet did not get a hit in before it appeared back to you, they will all reset and you can start over.

Now, there will be times when you mess up and get two mobs instead of the one you wanted to pull. Sometimes this is unavoidable but you '''can''' handle it. Simply let your pet hit one of the mobs and then send him after the other one, as long as your pet is the only one who damaged both mobs, they will both aggro him and turn away from you. In this case, you will have to spam that pet heal nonstop to keep your pet alive.

Only nuke the mob that your pet is hitting if you have time to do so when you have more than one mob. Because if you do more damage than your pet did to the one that your pet is NOT on, guess what, you just took that mobs aggro back again.

If you send your pet in to fight two mobs and you heal your pet before the pet has done any damage to the second mob, you will take aggro from healing your pet. So always make sure your pet gets at least a hit or two in on each mob before you heal. You will have to be fast in doing so, I won't lie, but it will save your life, trust me. Once you have mastered the art of veno pulling, at times you can pull two or more mobs on purpose. It will all depend on how well you know what you're doing and what level the mobs are that you multi-pull. I personally like to pull two and three at a time when I solo.

Always make sure to keep plenty of HP and MP pots on you because you will go through them a lot. Also a good idea, actually a '''great''' idea, is to build up your apothecary skill so that you can make your own MP/HP foods that are better (and cheaper) than pots. There are also some other things you can make with the apothecary skill that will sometimes save you or your pet's life. One of these things is called "Windrage Incense" which doubles your channeling speed for 5 seconds. It doesn't sound like much, but it comes in handy when you need that extra fast heal or extra fast finishing nuke on a mob if it kills your pet right before it dies.

As you keep leveling higher you will notice that you can do more and more as far as killing regular mobs goes, and eventually you will start to wonder if you can solo certain bosses. There really isn't much of a strategy when killing bosses by yourself other than spamming your pet heal, because that's all you have time to do until you out-level the boss by a ways.