Guide to Venomancer AoE Grinding
Guide to Venomancer AoE Grinding
Introduction[edit]
AoE grinding is an effective way to kill a massive amount of monsters at the same time in order to kill more monster per amount of time. In other word, you kill more monsters 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[edit]
Pet[edit]
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 going to be a Glacial Walker, Volcanic Magmite, or a Baby Hercules.
Skills[edit]
Main Skills :
Optionnal, but recommended to have 1 or 2 :
For the skills, you need to have Strong and Reflect. On a Baby Hercules 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 matter 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[edit]
Main Skills :
File:Noxious Gas.jpg File:Parasitic Nova.jpg File:Heal Pet.jpg
Optional Skill :
File:Bramble Hood.jpg File:Lucky Scarab.jpg
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?[edit]
The place you're going to hunt is the same place people AoE Zhen, and the same sorts of places where Axe Blademasters AoE grind. In other words, you have to look for places where monster are near to each other and only have physical attack. The reason that you will prefer physical attack is that most magic mobs attack from a distance or are runners and your AOE attack skill will not engulf all the attacking mobs. That said, with MUCH practice and pet maneuvering skill you will be able to gather even some of the magic mob types into a group for the kill. Runners are the most difficult and usually avoided.
| Monster Name | Level | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Seaweed Thief | 72 | Sanctuary |
| Seaspray Bladewolf | 78 | Dreamwaver Port |
| Chief Assassin | 80 | Nightscream Island (388, 588) |
| Various Monsters | 80-83 | Plain of Farewell |
| Various Monsters | 83-85 | Burning Heart |
| Wasteland Lithicran | 90 | Ancient Wall |
There are many other spots, these are just examples.
How to do the AoE grinding[edit]
- 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 monsters, they should have around 60%HP left. Make sure that they have around that amount especially for Increase Defense ones. If they are all good you can start with your first nuke, Noxious Gas. This is gonna bring down their HP to around 40%HP left.
- Step 2.2 - If you have aggro a monster by accident, make your pet grab the aggro back before the next step. Make sure they are all at around 40%HP or less (You don't 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 on their number, you can kill them with Noxious Gas or your other skills.
Tips[edit]
Getting far away monster[edit]
One of the main problem you're going to face when you try to reach monsters that are far away from the previous one, is that you're 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.
Basically you're 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[edit]
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 words you tend to take less aggro from them.
