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I see that the latest content update has brought back Ripmaw... What are people's opinion on this mythic pet? I was gonna get Slag before they took him away, then I was thinking Abaddon before his bad press lol. Is Ripmaw worth 250 platinum, and which class do you think would benefit the most from our shark friend?
warrior pet
Save your plat for the expansion
Ripmaw is a good pet for her stun ability but where she really fails is in her happiness bonus. Ripmaw came out at the 21-26 cap, during that time it was even questionable whether the happiness bonus of +8 health and +8 mana per tick would be beneficial. *The problem with ALL of these types of regenerate pets is that their happiness bonus never changes.
With pet happiness bonuses can all be summarized like this :
+regen mana/health or baseline +health (like +100 health type pets) or +mana pets will get weaker and less beneficial over time from their initial release. *Often when they are released the regen or +health/mana stat seems appropriate for the season in which they are released but over time the regeneration benefit becomes weaker due to everyone gaining more health and mana per season.
% based damage increase pets will become stronger over time. *This is because everyone's damage from season to season will become higher per season and thus the +% applied becomes stronger.
Example : If you are level 10 and have 600 health an extra +8 health per tick is very beneficial and you can see it when running around and fighting. *When you are level 31 and have say... 4500 health as a warrior that +8 health per tick benefit is minor if non-existant. *All of these pets with health and mana regen need to be looked at. *Will they still have +8 health and +8 mana when the level cap is 61 and warriors have
9,000hp? *If so it makes the future of such pets kinda worthless. *
For all health and mana regen pets what I believe should happen is that their health and mana regen should level up slowly with the pet's level.
I went off the rails a little bit for whether or not ripmaw is worth it for you. Unless you have plat to burn, you're a warrior, or a completionist and have to have everything I would pass.
Thank you for the post and Jexetta for the through reply. I was just about to make a question thread about this.
He does look cool though :3
Its good for low level twinks )
Jexetta, thank you for the in depth explanation.. I think u have a great point about the regen vs dmg which is why some people are commenting about being excited about ripmaw for their twinks... Ur welcome Tem!