Weapon Advice & Recommendations

[neobeth]

Firey gaze is very usefull, its a freezer.

[Rakumel]

I <b>think</b> - someone can correct me if I'm wrong - but Quench blocks all fire once per battle, and Steam Shield blocks all light once per battle. I'm pretty sure Firey Gaze has a chance to freeze. Bless and Heal both restore HP, but I prefer using either an item to heal (Scroll of Greater Healing, for example) or one of the higher level Faerie abilities.

So...in short, Quench, Steam Shield, Firey Gaze, and either Bless or Heal are the only abilities in your list that are worth activating. The rest are practically useless.

If you're serious about battling at all, you should consider training your pet's level up high enough to get Burrow and Sink. Those block almost all of an opponent's attack once per battle (I don't have the specific icons each one blocks handy though, sorry ^^;; )

[_lexxia]

Diamond Dust (Lvl 28, Earth) also has the chance to freeze.

[ladyflame]

To maria_: As far as my knowledge goes, the most useful faerie abilities are Sink (Dark Lvl 30), Burrow (Earth Lvl 10), and Drain Life (Dark Lvl 21). Erm...it might be a bit difficult to obtain those abilities at level 1, but you bet they're useful! ^_^ Uhh...I also believe that Restore (Light Lvl 22) and Healing Vapour (Water Lvl 27) are useful. Other than that, I don't think you should bother with the faerie abilities. Just fierce attack instead. ^_^

The level you mentioned (eg Drain Life (Dark Lvl 21). ) is the level your pet needs to be in order to get that ability.

Cranberry mentioned the best abilities to have in the 2nd or 3rd post of this thread

maria_ - Dont bless your pet with anymore bottled faeries until you increase your pet's level.

[Cranberry]

Thanks, ladyflame -- yep, my first post in this thread lists all the useful faerie abilities (right at the bottom). maria_... get that level up to 30! Then you should be able to get all the ones I listed. Abilities are definitely required for a decent battlepet. Even if your level drops back down after you get them all, you won't lose the abilities, so don't worry about that.

As for a cheapish set (all pieces buyable except honey potion) that's geared towards 1-player:

-Stone Club
-Ice Club
-Snowglobe Staff
-Greater Healing Scroll
-Downsize!
-Honey Potion (eventually... too expensive for you now -- for now, do a search for "muffin" and/or "snowball" at IDB and choose a nice cheap one that does a bunch of damage)
-Purple Sticky Hand -- some opponents have things worth taking
-And whatever you like in the final slot... another one-use bomb, a reflector or blocker, whatever. It depends on the opponent. Don't bother with pure shields or dual-duties like Golden Compass; your defence is so low that they won't do any good.

I know that's kinda generic... sorry... I feel like I just keep recommending the same things over and over. But for a 1-player battler with no defence to speak of and a 1 mil budget (which I seem to see a lot!), this is really the cheapest/strongest set I can come up with.

[xxChaos_Zeroxx]

Name: xxChaos_Zeroxx
Species: Shoyru
Level: 15
Hitpoints: 28/28
Strength: GREAT (24)
Defence: GREAT (21)

Current Set:
2 x Scarab Ring
3 x Mud Mixture
1 x Lesser Healing Scroll
1 x Downsize!
1 x Leaf Shield

Budget:
22,000np & Current set worth (Running low on np so I'm selling my current set to save up for a better one)

Thanks, xxChaos_Zeroxx

[Robert]

Name: xxChaos_Zeroxx
Species: Shoyru
Level: 15
Hitpoints: 28/28
Strength: GREAT (24)
Defence: GREAT (21)

Current Set:
2 x Scarab Ring
3 x Mud Mixture
1 x Lesser Healing Scroll
1 x Downsize!
1 x Leaf Shield

Budget:
22,000np & Current set worth (Running low on np so I'm selling my current set to save up for a better one)

Thanks, xxChaos_Zeroxx

You'll want to get 2 Scarab Rings, along with a Leaf Shield. Then a Snowglobe Staff and Lesser Healing Scroll (if you don't mind weapons that break). Downsize! is another defence item you could look into. But for offence, dual Scarab rings are your best bet to start off with.

[Cranberry]

Time to clear up a rumor: the Minor, Lesser and Greater Healing Scrolls do not break. When they first came out, there were rumors they were breakable. I have never seen a screenshot of this, so either it was a glitch (sometimes items do just randomly disappear in battle -- happened to someone's Bag of Healing Dust a while back) or they originally were fragile and TNT changed it. But if you go to the Neopets Battlepedia and look them up, they are each classified as an "endless use item," which means they are not fragile. They are also referred to as "limited use" in the item description, which simply means they are once per battle (breakable items like double dryer are described as "fragile"). And many, many people have been using them since they came out and have never had one break.

[xxChaos_Zeroxx]

Name: xxChaos_Zeroxx
Species: Shoyru
Level: 15
Hitpoints: 28/28
Strength: GREAT (24)
Defence: GREAT (21)

Current Set:
2 x Scarab Ring
3 x Mud Mixture
1 x Lesser Healing Scroll
1 x Downsize!
1 x Leaf Shield

Budget:
22,000np & Current set worth (Running low on np so I'm selling my current set to save up for a better one)

Thanks, xxChaos_Zeroxx

You'll want to get 2 Scarab Rings, along with a Leaf Shield. Then a Snowglobe Staff and Lesser Healing Scroll (if you don't mind weapons that break). Downsize! is another defence item you could look into. But for offence, dual Scarab rings are your best bet to start off with.

Currently I have them all but the snowglobe staff, thanks for the help.

[abloomfi]

I easily defeated the witch doctor, but now i have the meerca henchmen to defeat but can't even get passed their second hit! It seems like such a big gap between enimies. Any advice on weapons, training (although most done by lab ray, i could train if required).

Here are my stats for two of my pets, i usually use the fisrt one (the lab pet - white usul) but don't know if the second one (pea chia) would be better for this battle:

Level 10 or 16
Health 126 or 56
Strength 43 or 46
Defence 11 or 31
Move 21 or 25

I have no fearie abilites as i don't really understand them.

Weapons:

Ring of the Lost
Bronze Short Sword
Bronze Scorchstone
Purple Sticky Hand
Snowglobe Staff

150k limit on training and weapons

[Redmanfubar]

Cranberry,


I followed your advise and bulked up a bit. I am getting killed by level 8 on defenders of myopia the villain is Mecca henchmen. What do I need to do and can you give me any advise on which abilities are worth using in the battledome.

Thanks

Here are my current stats


Species : Wocky
Colour : Rainbow
Gender : Female
Age : 520 days
Level : 43

Health : 43 / 85
Mood : delighted!
Hunger : satiated
Strength : AMAZING (85)
Defence : AMAZING (85)
Move : GREAT (34)
Intelligence : ULTIMATE GENIUS (182)

Abilities

Thunder Tail
(Level 1)
Drain Life
(Level 1)
Night Vision
(Level 2)
Demon Breath
(Level 1)
Burrow
(Level 2)

Magic Berries
(Level 1)
Tough Skin
(Level 1)
Water Jet
(Level 2)
Haste
(Level 1)
Negg
(Level 1)

Temporal Leak
(Level 1)
Magic Torch
(Level 2)
Spark
(Level 2)
Air Shield
(Level 2)
Shroud
(Level 1)

Shadow Health
(Level 1)
Twisting Vines
(Level 1)
Psychic Blast
(Level 2)
Sun Ray
(Level 1)
Sink
(Level 1)

Bubble Shield
(Level 1)
Mote Dance
(Level 1)
Magic Pebbles
(Level 1)
Fiery Gaze
(Level 1)
Smoke Screen
(Level 2)

Fiery Roar
(Level 1)
Flash
(Level 2)
Bless
(Level 1)
Heal
(Level 2)
Nighttime
(Level 2)


Equipment

Cloudy Wand of Storms
Scarab Ring

Enchanted Wooden Bow
Greater Healing Scroll

Downsize!
Leaf Shield

Scroll of Dark Nova

Last edited by Redmanfubar on Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:12 am, edited 1 time in total.

[charlixsparkles]

Time to clear up a rumor: the Minor, Lesser and Greater Healing Scrolls do not break. When they first came out, there were rumors they were breakable. I have never seen a screenshot of this, so either it was a glitch (sometimes items do just randomly disappear in battle -- happened to someone's Bag of Healing Dust a while back) or they originally were fragile and TNT changed it. But if you go to the Neopets Battlepedia and look them up, they are each classified as an "endless use item," which means they are not fragile. They are also referred to as "limited use" in the item description, which simply means they are once per battle (breakable items like double dryer are described as "fragile"). And many, many people have been using them since they came out and have never had one break.

Thanks for clearing that up for me I didn't know those healing scrolls were breakable until someone told me, then I started worrying a bit... but that's kinda normal for me.

Anyway, I have recently blessed my level 24 battle pet with the faerie ability "Heal". Yes I know it's one of the recommendations on the first page. But someone told me that it can only be the only thing you do in one round and will only heal a certain amount of hit points... this confused me because when I was only a few hit points away from defeating the Pant Devil, he healed to what looked like full hit points and I can't remember if he used weapons or not... can someone clear up this: how much hit points will this ability heal, can you really not use any weapons when you heal and - to add to the stupid questions I usually ask - how many times can you use it per battle?

Thanks

[Cranberry]

Heal can heal you 1-57 HP (random). I think you can use it more than once (not sure), but it uses up some of your power, so you may not want to (nice to save some power for burrow and maybe drain life). You can use two weapons with it; it's just the thing you select from the drop-down box.

[Redmanfubar]

Cranberry,


I followed your advise and bulked up a bit. I am getting killed by level 8 on defenders of myopia the villain is Mecca henchmen. What do I need to do and can you give me any advise on which abilities are worth using in the battledome.

Thanks

Here are my current stats


Species : Wocky
Colour : Rainbow
Gender : Female
Age : 520 days
Level : 43

Health : 43 / 85
Mood : delighted!
Hunger : satiated
Strength : AMAZING (85)
Defence : AMAZING (85)
Move : GREAT (34)
Intelligence : ULTIMATE GENIUS (182)

Abilities

Thunder Tail
(Level 1)
Drain Life
(Level 1)
Night Vision
(Level 2)
Demon Breath
(Level 1)
Burrow
(Level 2)

Magic Berries
(Level 1)
Tough Skin
(Level 1)
Water Jet
(Level 2)
Haste
(Level 1)
Negg
(Level 1)

Temporal Leak
(Level 1)
Magic Torch
(Level 2)
Spark
(Level 2)
Air Shield
(Level 2)
Shroud
(Level 1)

Shadow Health
(Level 1)
Twisting Vines
(Level 1)
Psychic Blast
(Level 2)
Sun Ray
(Level 1)
Sink
(Level 1)

Bubble Shield
(Level 1)
Mote Dance
(Level 1)
Magic Pebbles
(Level 1)
Fiery Gaze
(Level 1)
Smoke Screen
(Level 2)

Fiery Roar
(Level 1)
Flash
(Level 2)
Bless
(Level 1)
Heal
(Level 2)
Nighttime
(Level 2)


Equipment

Cloudy Wand of Storms
Scarab Ring

Enchanted Wooden Bow
Greater Healing Scroll

Downsize!
Leaf Shield

Scroll of Dark Nova

[Katherine]

I need a new battle set.I do 1 player battles most.I will spend 100k.


Stats:
Species : Kougra
Colour : Red
Gender : Female
Age : 488 days
Level : 17

Health : 14 / 25
Mood : delighted!
Hunger : bloated
Strength : titanic
Defence : semi-demi-godly
Move : lightning


Abilities:
Night Vision
(Level 1)

Demon Breath
(Level 1)

Magic Berries
(Level 1)

Tough Skin
(Level 1)

Temporal Leak
(Level 1)


Magic Torch
(Level 1)

Spark
(Level 1)

Shroud
(Level 1)

Bubble Shield
(Level 1)

Magic Pebbles
(Level 1)


Smoke Screen
(Level 1)

Fiery Roar
(Level 1)

Heal
(Level 1)

Nighttime
(Level 1)

Curent Set:

Scarab Ring


Red Scorchstone



Green Frost Cannon


Scarab Ring



Leaf Shield


Downsize!



Space Faeries Shield



I need to know how much of my money to spend on training and how much to spend on wepons.