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Enlightened One on Jun 8, 2014 wrote:

Hello Everyone.
I've been playing wizard 101 now for three years and whilst I have a wizard from nearly every school I've never created a high level death wizard.
Last night I created a new Necromancer, the difference with this one is I have lots of death school pets from various packs (Gargoyle, Penumbra Dragon, Deer Knight and the currently equipt Mummy Cat).
I also have some excellent Death school gear from the Nightmare pack for when she reaches level 60 or beyond.
My question is this, the Ghost Dragon is the only pet with the ability to manifest Spritely but although he was trained to 500 it didn't develop. I have absolutely no luck when it comes to hatching and getting the talent I want so I just wanted to know this:
(A) With a Necromancer's vast array of life steal spells is a healing pet really nessecary or can you survive without one?

(B) If I did bite the bullet and take another chance on hatching a healing pet what would be a good pair to use?
I would love to hear from any Necromancers with healing pets and any tips, tricks and general advice they can offer me for Alura (my Death Wizard) in the future.
Thank you everyone

Personally for death I would rather have a pet with double resist triple damage, that meaning:

-Spell Proof
-Spell Defy
-Death Giver
-Death Bringer
-Pain Giver

I prefer this because Death does have the ability to heal themselves, so the resist is all you really need to get by.

My most recent pet failed at mega sorta.

He gave:

-Feinting Spell (Gives 1 Feint)
-Spell Defy
-Spell Proof
-Death Giver
-Death Ward (+15% Resist)

The death resist is somewhat useful for sacrifice and other self damage spells, and the other good news is I can now become immune to my own school :P but yeah definitely the best shot you have at achieving these talents is to find a friend who has them, train your current pet to adult, and then keep hatching until you get out all the bad talents that you don't want.

Enlightened One on Jun 8, 2014 wrote:

Hello Everyone.
I've been playing wizard 101 now for three years and whilst I have a wizard from nearly every school I've never created a high level death wizard.
Last night I created a new Necromancer, the difference with this one is I have lots of death school pets from various packs (Gargoyle, Penumbra Dragon, Deer Knight and the currently equipt Mummy Cat).
I also have some excellent Death school gear from the Nightmare pack for when she reaches level 60 or beyond.
My question is this, the Ghost Dragon is the only pet with the ability to manifest Spritely but although he was trained to 500 it didn't develop. I have absolutely no luck when it comes to hatching and getting the talent I want so I just wanted to know this:
(A) With a Necromancer's vast array of life steal spells is a healing pet really nessecary or can you survive without one?

(B) If I did bite the bullet and take another chance on hatching a healing pet what would be a good pair to use?
I would love to hear from any Necromancers with healing pets and any tips, tricks and general advice they can offer me for Alura (my Death Wizard) in the future.
Thank you everyone

A. No, you don't need a healing pet.
B. I have no idea; see "A"

Your drains and the boosts from the pets listed will be fine in seeing you through. Death is one of the easiest schools to solo with for just this reason. Have fun!

Enlightened One on Jun 8, 2014 wrote:

Hello Everyone.
I've been playing wizard 101 now for three years and whilst I have a wizard from nearly every school I've never created a high level death wizard.
Last night I created a new Necromancer, the difference with this one is I have lots of death school pets from various packs (Gargoyle, Penumbra Dragon, Deer Knight and the currently equipt Mummy Cat).
I also have some excellent Death school gear from the Nightmare pack for when she reaches level 60 or beyond.
My question is this, the Ghost Dragon is the only pet with the ability to manifest Spritely but although he was trained to 500 it didn't develop. I have absolutely no luck when it comes to hatching and getting the talent I want so I just wanted to know this:
(A) With a Necromancer's vast array of life steal spells is a healing pet really nessecary or can you survive without one?

(B) If I did bite the bullet and take another chance on hatching a healing pet what would be a good pair to use?
I would love to hear from any Necromancers with healing pets and any tips, tricks and general advice they can offer me for Alura (my Death Wizard) in the future.
Thank you everyone

This is really a personal decision in your play style, but usually I do not go with a healing pet with my Death wizard. Instead, I keep defense (spell proof/defy) and attack (damage/criticals) talents. This is because I am usually spamming drain spells.

However, I was the healer in the group as the Death wizard I would probably switch to a healing pet, since the small heals would keep my HP up after Sacrificing to others.

You don't need healing if you are using health swap spells to attack, but healing isn't bad to have. I like a lot of resist on death pets because some of our spells hurt us. So it is good to have spell proof and defy or death ward. Hatch with pets that have the talents you want.

For my necromancer, I have a vampire pet that casts blades, casts a critical boosting ring, and buffs my critical rating and damage, as well as giving a stronger vampire spell that also decreases enemy heals. But especially at lower levels (I am still in my 20's with this character) having the critical ability is crazy helpful. I also had a red ghost pet that gave a lot of cards that was helpful, before I got the vampire -- it also did not heal.

So far, I have not found a healing pet necessary -- precisely because the vampire-type spells already heal, and getting a big hit with those is the best strategy for the death school. The vampire pet is great. I don't think my necromancer has lost to anyone yet in PVE, and he is a warlord in PVP.

Hope this helps.

dayerider on Jun 8, 2014 wrote:

NEED a pet with healing? Naah. Is it heplful? Sure. Then again, depending on the style of your play, having a pet with maycast, team friendly spells, would be helpful. There are some maycasts that help your team, including unicorn.

Really, there's a few schools of thought on this forum:

1) if i can have it, i want it
2) If my pet heals for me, I dont have to
3) It's a nice benefit to training a pet but I dont NEED it
4) I dont want healing pets at all; I know what I'm doing so dont need one

For DEATH, me personally, I fall under 3 (mostly). it's a RARE time that #2 is applicable, but that only comes into play if I fizzle more than a few times in a row and need health badly. Normally, my gear is fine, but when doing the final battle of K2, I somehow fizzled 3 times in a row when trying to cast a colossal frankie with at least 3 blades stacked. had any one of them hit, it would have been a TOTALLY different story.... and keep in mind, that is a MINORITY of the time.

I fall under #2 myself. but then my death is only lvl 21 or 22 right now. My ice has life for secondary but...still nice to have a pet that heals so I don't have to waste rounds and pips to heal myself. My Storm wiz is death secondary but again...nice to have one that heals. The one I just hatched yesterday and leveled up to adult so far has fairy and ward wrecker. As you say it depends on your style of play and I tend to play as the bull in the china shop. I was so focused on killing a boss last night I wasn't paying any attention to what they were casting on me, and so finished the fight with 200hp. Which is a bad thing as a storm wiz. :P

Connor
Alura
Jared

Enlightened One on Jun 8, 2014 wrote:

Hello Everyone.
I've been playing wizard 101 now for three years and whilst I have a wizard from nearly every school I've never created a high level death wizard.
Last night I created a new Necromancer, the difference with this one is I have lots of death school pets from various packs (Gargoyle, Penumbra Dragon, Deer Knight and the currently equipt Mummy Cat).
I also have some excellent Death school gear from the Nightmare pack for when she reaches level 60 or beyond.
My question is this, the Ghost Dragon is the only pet with the ability to manifest Spritely but although he was trained to 500 it didn't develop. I have absolutely no luck when it comes to hatching and getting the talent I want so I just wanted to know this:
(A) With a Necromancer's vast array of life steal spells is a healing pet really nessecary or can you survive without one?

(B) If I did bite the bullet and take another chance on hatching a healing pet what would be a good pair to use?
I would love to hear from any Necromancers with healing pets and any tips, tricks and general advice they can offer me for Alura (my Death Wizard) in the future.
Thank you everyone

Wow!
I always thought the Wizard 101 players were some of the nicest and most knowledgable in the gaming community, thank you all for your feedback.
Based on what I'm reading the general concensus seems to be, it's nice to have a healing pet but not essential and that they are a help due to fizz, uncooperative decks, low power hits etc.
I did some research into Death pets and not including school pets, the best ones seem to be the ones I already have.
With this in mind I have decided to use my mummy cat, Lady Luna, as the basis for any hatches.
She is currently leveled to Ancient with the following skills/talents,
Gives one Von
Death Striker (14% to Death critical)
Pip O Plenty
Gives Deer Knight.
My Necromancer, Alura Raventhorn is only level 10 at the moment so hatching is some time off for me until I accumulate lots of gold but I love being able to use a high level Death Spell like Dr Von and Deer at such an early stage.
My question is
What do other Wizards think of my choice for a parent pet?
What Death and Healing talents should I try to get?
Is it better to hatch with another Death pet or is any pet with a heal ok.
I would particuarly like to hear from anyone who has developed a Mummy Cat with healing talents.
Thank you everyone
Alura Raventhorn

Enlightened One on Jun 10, 2014 wrote:

Wow!
I always thought the Wizard 101 players were some of the nicest and most knowledgable in the gaming community, thank you all for your feedback.
Based on what I'm reading the general concensus seems to be, it's nice to have a healing pet but not essential and that they are a help due to fizz, uncooperative decks, low power hits etc.
I did some research into Death pets and not including school pets, the best ones seem to be the ones I already have.
With this in mind I have decided to use my mummy cat, Lady Luna, as the basis for any hatches.
She is currently leveled to Ancient with the following skills/talents,
Gives one Von
Death Striker (14% to Death critical)
Pip O Plenty
Gives Deer Knight.
My Necromancer, Alura Raventhorn is only level 10 at the moment so hatching is some time off for me until I accumulate lots of gold but I love being able to use a high level Death Spell like Dr Von and Deer at such an early stage.
My question is
What do other Wizards think of my choice for a parent pet?
What Death and Healing talents should I try to get?
Is it better to hatch with another Death pet or is any pet with a heal ok.
I would particuarly like to hear from anyone who has developed a Mummy Cat with healing talents.
Thank you everyone
Alura Raventhorn

Death pets that give universal or death talents are just fine for your Necromancer. Don't worry about too much hatching at the low levels, as it's really unnecessary until you get to Celestia/Wintertusk. That's when you'll need better pets.

If you have a nice death pet (your mummy cat), then if I were you, I would stick with hatching with other death pets. Of course, it depends on what the other person has on their pet and the type of pet. If the other person has fire talents, or ice talents, etc, then you really don't want to hatch with them, because if it gets into your pet gene pool, it can be hard to hatch out, and you really don't want talents from another school if you aren't going to use them.

My Necromancer has several pets he switches to, sometimes for the variation in talents or sometimes because I like to have a different pet to look at once in a while.

Mummy Cat: Pain-Giver, Proof (10), Defy (5), Fairy, Sprite

Shadow Beast: Pain-Giver, Proof (10), Defy (5), Fairy, Sprite

Deer Knight: Pain-Giver, Sharp Shot (6), Proof (10), Fairy, Sprite

Deathwalker: Sharp Shot (+6), Proof (10), Defy (5), Critical (+30), Fairy ..... and is a perfect 250 pet

Red Ghost: Death Giver (6), Proof (10), Defy (5), Fairy, Unicorn

I think I have more, but that's what I came up with for now. I will be working on more death pets, but for now I'm working on pets for my Ice wizard.

Good luck!!!!!

I know you already decided on something but in my opinion, healing pets are never a BAD idea. They are really useful when you are in a bind (i.e. you have 200 left, your pet does unicorn. fairy, or even sprite... This just might save your life.) Personally with My death wizzy in Avalon, I have been using a pet (Nightwalker) with these talents: Spirit blade, Spritley, Unicorn, Sharp shot (6). My other pet is not so good but I also use it when my other pet is on my other characters. This pet is a 1st generation Jelly fish that got (he's only to adult): Spritley. and deathblade.(I like having my pets cast blades ) Hope this helps.

Christo Mythspear 100
(And now introducing again!) Zachary Nightvault 75-76

P.S. I used Sparky (Jelly fish) Up until celestia and had no trouble

Hi, Alura.

Critical Deer on Triton? I'd be chuffed too. LOL :)

Yes, an offspring can "lose" or not manifest talents. Say you hatch Lady Luna with one of my Deer Knight pets and get a Deer Knight back as the offspring, the Dr. Von card Lady Luna gives you at baby will be gone and you'll get the Feint card Deer Knights give at baby instead. As seethe wrote, if an offspring doesn't get the talents you want in a pool during a hatch or doesn't manifest the talents you want, don't equip that pet or spend much (if any) time training it.

You're in great shape pet-wise for quite a while. I wouldn't worry about hatching as long as Lady Luna is taking good care of you while questing. You may decide to never hatch because she takes care of you so well; nothing wrong with that!

Miranda Nightsinger, Exalted Necromancer
Scarlet Windhammer, Master Pyromancer
Iridian Lotusblade, Adept Sorcerer

The best way to get healing talents, or any talents really, is hatch with pets that have them. You might get it by luck, but the odds are a lot better through repeated hatching with improved pets.

My death spends a lot of time tanking and since i use empower and pact a lot, i get a lot of triggers so I like healing, especially unicorn since it helps the whole team. Nothing more fun than hitting myself for a couple hundred and giving all my friends a heal.

Dakota Death on Jun 13, 2014 wrote:

The best way to get healing talents, or any talents really, is hatch with pets that have them. You might get it by luck, but the odds are a lot better through repeated hatching with improved pets.

My death spends a lot of time tanking and since i use empower and pact a lot, i get a lot of triggers so I like healing, especially unicorn since it helps the whole team. Nothing more fun than hitting myself for a couple hundred and giving all my friends a heal.

Hey that is a great suggestion Dakota,
I'd forgotten that Necromancers can use a spell that damages them but also restores a fixed amount of health.
Unicorn is a great team spell too, in the course of questing with other Wizards I have often been very grateful someone decided to train for this talent.
I will go to wiki and find a list of all pets that MC Unicorn.
Oh and thank you too Seethe, I had completely forgotten about Starfish, luckily I have one in my shared bank and she already has MC Spritely.