Pets

[Quark]

Is there an in-depth analysis of pets anywhere? Or even a not so in-depth one?

I only ask because i'm curious to know the meta in DPS pets, it seems like its split between robots, unicorns, animii and i don't know which to invest in!

Any input is welcome!

[x-president]

Dungeon Defender wiki has some info, but it's limited. I haven't come across and really good guides. I know there was some changes to pet dmg in one of the recent patches.

My chicken always seems to give me the best dmg sense it scales with hero dmg. At least in NM it does pretty good and it's about half upgraded only.

[FruitLord]

Youtube MoPower83 and go to his channel. He has a pet guide but it was pre-unicorns. He also has some other good guides.

[ChaChaCha]

Robots are my favorite atm because of the pierce shot and the overall damage. You can aquire a good one thru NM Alch labs survival reaching wave 15.

The others I have yet to try due to not playing much the last two weeks :(

[OfficerFarva]

Could we compile a list as this would be helpful for newbies like myself.

Stuff like:

1.) Class name (Unicorn, Roboit, Ligre, etc...)
2.) Attack Type (Laser, physical, rainbow hearts....)
3.) Primary Special Ability (Mana earn, Tower boost, etc..)
4.) Secondary Ability (Multi-shot, etc..)
5.) Where to earn/ where they drop

I know stats are at random, so listing that would be pointless.

[OfficerFarva]

Ok, since that got no reply, let me ask you this:

IF each guardian has a specialty, does the boost part of an upgrade mean it will 'boost' that type of guardians specialty?

In example, and I just realized this now browsing some images... Monk guardian says it boosts tower range. So if the boost is 50 total for the monk, that is the strngth of the increase of nearby tower's ranges?

Unfortunately I did not know that and bought a Monk Guardian when really i should have bought an Apprentice or Squire guardian for my tower build squire.

[DLUX]

The 3 best pets are Genie, Apprentice Guardian and Huntress Guardian.
Squire Guardians have some situational use, damage pets have very little use IMO.

[Rorschach]

Well i just noticed in the early stages of survival on nm that dragons seem to scale with hero dmg too.

This has some veeeeeeery interesting results if you put them on a melee dps monk like i do. I've only got a mediocre 5000 damage dragon with 84/84 ups but with hero boost activated this little fellow hits for 75k PER PROJECTILE. There are 3 projectiles. Oh and they do aoe damage.

This is absolutley bat**** insane. On wave 15, all i have to do to clear mageclusters is pop hero boost, step outside of the barricades and watch everything being one shoted. This little fellow also chews through ogres like nothing ive seen before.

Im going to make further tests with other dps pets but methinks we all have benn using them on the wrong chars all the time.

[CrzyRndm]

Well i just noticed in the early stages of survival on nm that dragons seem to scale with hero dmg too.

This has some veeeeeeery interesting results if you put them on a melee dps monk like i do. I've only got a mediocre 5000 damage dragon with 84/84 ups but with hero boost activated this little fellow hits for 75k PER PROJECTILE. There are 3 projectiles. Oh and they do aoe damage.

This is absolutley bat**** insane. On wave 15, all i have to do to clear mageclusters is pop hero boost, step outside of the barricades and watch everything being one shoted. This little fellow also chews through ogres like nothing ive seen before.

Im going to make further tests with other dps pets but methinks we all have benn using them on the wrong chars all the time.
Happens with blood rage/cta also (and tornado stance, except lower damage with no increase in attack rate >.>).
All pets scale with hero damage (well the dps ones atleast), not just the dragon. Try it with a unicorn/laser bot. Piercing mad damage projectiles :P