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    Default Stacking vs. Standard Damage: Which One Is Better?

    Hello! I wanted to make this as a guide to help people decide on how to spec out their gear or pets. First off, let's talk about the difference between stacking and standard damage. The first obvious difference is that stacking damage can stack, but standard damage cannot. Standard damage only scales off the highest value. If you have a 30% damage elixir and a pet with 25% standard damage, you would only benefit from the 30% damage elixir. Stacking damage and standard damage are separate values and are multiplicative with each other. If you have 30% standard damage and 30% stacking damage, you would get:

    30% standard * 30% stacking = 69% more damage (nice)

    I want to now talk about how you can use stacking and standard damage to spec out your pet to dish out the most damage possible. When specing out a pet for damage, elixirs should be taken into consideration, 30% damage elixirs are standard damage, while 25% damage elixirs are stacking damage. If you have a 30% damage elixir go for stacking damage in your arcane ability and happiness bonus. If you aren't using a 30% damage elixir, you can have standard damage in your happiness bonus and stacking damage for arcane ability (or vice versa).

    If you are looking for some good pet builds, a couple of the best pets for arcane ability would be Mephisto and Guenivere. Mephisto's aa gives 50% standard damage and Guenivere's aa gives 50% stacking damage. If those pets are too expensive/rare, a few cheaper options for stacking damage would be Werewiger (normal and arcanite are both good), Heroic Tadthep, Arcanite Reppy, Morpheus, and Seirian. There unfortunately aren't many good arcane abilities that give standard damage, but the 3 best pets I was able to find were Timur, Stanlee and Shadowlurk. For happiness bonus, there are so many great pets that give stacking damage, so it ultimately comes down to what other stats you need. Some of the best would be, Heroic Garlic, Arcanite Samson, Arcanite Sentinel, Arcanite Redd, Yinshe, and Heroic Lammy. For standard damage, the best pets would be Electra, Armored Zhulong, Phoenix, Lancelot, Arcanite Shoggoth, Feng (for mages), Geng (for rogues), Antonio, Noe, and Iridyas.

    Hopefully this was helpful!

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    Best pet setup:

    Arcanite Sapphire as a Base pet
    Heroic Garlic as a Happinesse bonus
    Mephisto as an Arcanite ability

    Elixirs to use:

    25% damage elixir for 40.000 gold
    30% bonus damage elixir for 25.000 gold

    (Prices as of 07.11.2022)
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    what is the reason for using garlic as HB and mephisto as AA.. someone said using tadhep as AA is better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by drawfflerz View Post
    what is the reason for using garlic as HB and mephisto as AA.. someone said using tadhep as AA is better.

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    Default Stacking vs. Standard Damage: Which One Is Better?

    Quote Originally Posted by drawfflerz View Post
    what is the reason for using garlic as HB and mephisto as AA.. someone said using tadhep as AA is better.

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    Heroic Garlic's hb is extremely powerful for offense. The 25% haste makes your skill cooldowns and weapon normal attacks 25% faster. The 20% crit chance helps mages and warriors land crits more often, and the 30% stacking damage is one of the highest a pet can give for stacking damage. Mephisto is good for AA since it gives 50% standard damage, which stacks well with the 30% stacking damage.

    Heroic Tadthep is also a great choice because it gives 20% haste, 20% stacking damage, and 20% crit chance. When paired with Heroic Garlic it would be a total of 45% haste, 50% stacking damage, and 40% crit chance. I would recommend a 30% damage elixir to get the most out of this combo.

    To summarize, mephisto's aa is good for hitting harder, while tadthep's aa would be better for attacking faster.
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