Guide to Venomancer AoE Grinding

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Guide to AOE Grinding With Venomancer by TameThat

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Introduction

AOE grinding is an effective way to kill massive amount of monster at same time in order to kill more monster per amount of time. In other word, you kill more monster faster. This technique isn't easy to apply and you need lots of control if you don't want to get yourself killed on every attempt.

Choosing your Pet and your Pet Skill

Pet

Recommended Pet :
File:Baby Hercules Icon.png File:Magmite Icon.png

For the pet, you need to have one with good amount of HP and physical defense. Typically it's gonna be a Volcanic Magmite or a Baby Hercule.

Skills

Main Skills :

Optionnal, but recommended to have 1 or 2 :


For the skills, you need to have Strong and Reflect. On a Baby Hercule Pet you already have those, but if you want to use an other pet your going to need to find or buy the skill scroll for those skill. For the 2 others slots available on your pet, you can put aggro skills, it doesn't mather much which one it is. Typically, what helps the most is Bash and/or Flesh Ream and/or a pet skill that does magic attack.

What skills to get and use

Main Skills :
File:Noxious Gas.jpg File:Parasitic Nova.jpg File:Heal Pet.jpg

Optional Skill :
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The main venomancer skills your going to be using is Noxious Gas, Parasitic Nova and Heal Pet. For the optional skill, they are mainly lifesaver skill that can help you to get out of dangerous situation.

Where to hunt ?

The place your going to hunt is the same place people "zhen". In other word, you have to look for place where monster are near to each other and only have physical attack.

How to do the AOE grinding

• Step 1 - Gathering the monster

• • Step 1.1 - Send your pet on a monster nearby.
    
  • Step 1.2 - Let your pet do a little bit of damage on the pet. Usually removing 10-20% HP is enough.
    
  • Step 1.3 - Repeat step 1.2 and 1.3 till you have a good amount of monster around your pet.
    

• Step 2 - Killing them !

• • Step 2.1 - During the time you have aggro all the monster, they should have around 60%HP left. Make sure that they have around that amount especially for Increase Defense one. If they are all good you can start with your first nuke, Noxious Gas. This is gonna bring down they're HP to around 40%HP left.
    
  • Step 2.2 - If you have aggro by accident some monster make your pet grab the aggro back before the next step. Make sure they are all at around 40%HP or less (You dont need to follow Magic Defense Increased monster HP).
    
  • Step 2.3 - This is the finishing strike combo. You are gonna be doing Parasitic Nova, then right after Noxious Gas. Do not stand next near the monster your pet has aggro. Parasitic Nova will get the aggro to you from most of the monster, but it will seal them and Noxious Gas should deal enough damage to finish them.
    
  • Step 2.4 - At this point all you have left is the Increased HP and Magic Defense Increased monster. Depending of their number, you can kill them with Noxious Gas or your other skills.
    

Tips

Getting far away monster

One of the main problem your going to face when you try to reach monster that are far away from the previous one, is that your going to lose aggro of all the monster you had aggro. But there is a technique that is easy to apply in order to reach those far away monster without losing the aggro on the monster you have aggro.

• Step 1 - Send your pet to the far away monster and make sure it hit in once.
  
• Step 2 - Send your pet to attack a monster that is the group of monster you have aggro.
  
• Step 3 - Once your far away monster reach the group of monster, make your pet attack it.
  

Basicly your making the far away monster do half of the distance between him and the group. Your group of monster also has only half of the distance to do.

Keeping aggro

If you have trouble keeping aggro on your pet after you do Noxious Gas or Parasitic Nova, you can try to hunt higher level monster. These will take the same amount of damage from your pet, but will take reduce damage from you. In other word you tend to take less aggro from them.