(FISRT OF ALL SO SORRY THAT THIS IS SOOOO LONG ^T. didn't think i'd have that much to add. really sorry ignore it if you want. cause who likes to read an essay sized comment? TT.TT)

oow stats are nice for a lvl 17 o.o while you lvl also add more con never have lower than 60 con but a lotta people would suggest you have 90+ but that your choice i says never lower than 60-70. lowest i have on most of my chara is 70 (thats just me cause i like trying to experiment making power builds) thought this can still cause you to spawn depending where you go. then its up to you what you want to add if you want to survive, more then 100+ will last for a fire. 30-45 is fine until lvl 50. in most all areas of training you and your pet should survive with 500 or more hp. 500 being the lowest its possible to spawn from even in high lvled areas like pangos or hanging garden trees. but you don't need to worry about that till you're reborn or pet training. (you can risk and go there at 70 or 90 with 700+ if you think you'll survive since your defence will be lower)

since you are melee continue to add more str. there is really no need to add int. you can find FORGOTTEN SCROLLS around in game from quest should be more than 34 of them out there to find with verion 6 and you can take of any unwanted points and put it to onto somthing else. luckily fire is only class that doesn't need int as a melee. other melee classes require 4-7 int to get wis skills o.o aniways search the forum for locations and guides to find more scrolls if interested that.

your choice if you wish to add more than 4 agi (need 4 for final fire melee skill). can add agi to be faster or to combo with pet easier. but note that if you start to busrt you will need a weight to cover your speed. as a 4 agi fire a 99T will last till 57 with no speed gear. 99T and shadow pestle(-99) with defence set (-14) with a total of -212 will last till lvl 128 -200T with will last the same lvl, but with a pestle and set that should get you to lvl 180. 400T and 600T will last a 0-4 agi fire till 180 what ever gear/weapon they choose to wear even with speed in it. a 600T can last a 100agi fire to 180 any higher than 150agi best to wait till after busrting 173agi being the max to hit 0spd in a 600T with no speed gear on.
as long an your speed is less than 30 (cause base cow speed is 30ish) even with gear or weights on you can still combo with the cow so just cause it says 1spd, 2spd, or 18spd there is no need to panic. and don't tell your team mate you have 18 speed cause if they are new to this and don't understand they will panic and think "oh no, now we have to kick him cause won't combo" or "its him he's messing up the combo cause he doesn't have 0spd. (lie and say you have 0 if deperate for a team and speed is still under 30. though i advice againt it cause lying is wrong and when you lvl higher and speed gets higher then combo goes off. then you're stuck in your own lie and not comboing and not getting exp =.=)
DEFENCE SET IS; defensive armour, copper wing boots,steel cuffs for look or any -spd bracers or cuffs will do, footman's helmet and shadow pestle or use long handled axe for look as well as having a weapon cause pestle is a heavy hammer/club and not all skills can be used with it cause its to heavy to swing.

when training with pets you need to be withen 99spd of each other and your or team mates to combo. even if its random and you may not combo half the time. you're not busrting so who cares.

also i think you know this by now since cupid adverts this in the game (more like spams). but never go to monsters higher than 19 lvls, 18 to be safe. because your gear takes damage and then eventurally break and *poof* gone forever.. so sucks if you have mall gear and stuff you want to keep. any equiptables that is rank 1 does not break like your starter clothes, rebirth cape. and speed belt from calcutta( you may want to try and get one day. adds 20 spd to whoever wears it) making it safe to train with no matter the area. so for example you're lvl 17 never go higher than a monter that is lvl 35-36. so in 1 lvl (lvl 18) you can train in pine forest, in south island where the cirrus are or at lvl lvl 42 for the raptors in osyla and can get even better exp. it'll b safe to auto walk. if you notice you die to often find a spawn to sit at and take it slow. while you sit (alt+1) or lay (i set it as alt-2, its in the social section, icon tab, where you find emotions not to be confused with the chat emoticons) your sp and hp will recover over time.

KITCHEN RANGE uses FIREWOOD
GLAZE TABLE uses GAS
glaze table is better cause 1 fire wood becomes 3 gas but you need to fisrt make the grinding equiptment in order to make the glaze table AND the CRUDE OIL EQUIPTMENT which makes the gas. its a bit if work but in the end its the best 2 machines you will ever use for cooking and if you manage to get GAS STORAGE(no link) from im or buy of a player you can store 6k gas and never have to worry about space or searching for wood to make gas. just place it near or in a close area of your stove to use.

human pets or "companions" (the list above i gave you) including monkey and arez(may one day) eventurally rebirth unlike mall pets and catchable ingame pets. so they become stronger with you. the panda is good i see nothing wrong with that i know a lotta people who uses non-companions including myself. other than monkey i use the naga snake lady my bf bought me. so its all about prefrence XD. aniways get a good spear or a bow cause panda like to belly bump and slap which is its melee skill. the thing about bows is its a "poke" so you can't use skill with it on, except for assit (is why a lotta assit only types will use bows). it uses your base atk and multiples it to hit hard. so a spear is good cause its the highest atk type weapons you get in game and allows you to use your skill. as melee you can use hammer/clubs, claws, spear or sword what ever your prefrence. they don't hit as hard as a bow but good to carry both if you ever want to switch back and forth.
later you can try to get arrow rain/ volley which is the only bow skill in game atm. you get the quest in calcutta and pay 2 stars upon completing. this skill hits every target. i'm sure you've seen war/martial art movies to know what a rain/shower of arrows is. depening on your str and the bow it can miss a lot or hit. mall bow at +4 will never miss and i've heard a forged blessed bow or any bow of +4 will also not miss as well. i've not confirmed this but a few friends and my sister says it works but its not a long term investment, so not really a good idea. truthfully i don't know and i can't afford to get a mall bow. lmao.

if you get alchemy you can get junior by bringing 1 ant antenna, 2 chameleon tongue and 5 dragon tooth to POLO island anytime you wish. you'll need a vehicle to get there. so it takes a bit of time junior is best to have till you have time for superior since junior i noticed fails a lot under lvl 6. once you lvl it to 10 and get superior you're pretty much set for life XD (wont confuse you with all that)
useful guides to alchemy HERE, HERE and HERE
i'm self thought but always good to have a hand when stuck or confused about somthing and no one is there to explain it to you. sorry i'm not in your server XD i'd help if i could.

Shelf can hold gear or food or w/e but 1 of 2 slots.
food shelf hold only tradeable food items. and hold 250 (stack of the same 5 food) of 2 solts. you can stack in the shelf and not be left in your hand so great for storing up to 5 or 10 stacks of syrup for example (so 5 stacks of grape or canta will go in 1 slot). put price to more than 999g if you plan to use it to store food so people don't acciddently buy.
SODA/COIN MACHINE hold 1 of 5 slots of anything tradable and FORTUNE EGGhold 1 of 10 slot of a qauntity of more than 10 (nothing less) of any and all tradables . it can be used as a storage if you leave the price empty. if you chose to have stuff sold in it then its a set price for EVERY item in the machine and people guy and get it randomly so if you sell 10 stacks of grape juice at 50g they pay 50 and will always get grape juice. if you have 4 stacks of grape, 2 stacks or barley, 1 stack of wood, 1 stack of iron ores and maybe 2 stacks of fugu hotpot(tradeable kind) for 30 gold they will get anything. so might get wood or juice at random for 30 gold. but people usually just use it as storage or put a stack of rare items amoung 9 stacks of muck or ores or somthing lame at 1k or more gold just for fun seeing who will spend 1k trying to get the rare item (lol)

and yea sell some syrup and save some so you still make money while you train. if you can once in a while take a trip to chicken farm. and collect barley and rice while collecting seeds. so these and you can have bread and cooked rice of 110hp. if you are able to leave your computer online over night or while at school/work then remote is extra handy so you can afk collect. go about your day. come home cook or grow. then go train or afk set up train and go about your day or sleep. =3

gs is passable when you have 400+ hp so you know you are likely not to spawn just to be safe always guard incase while your teammate do it instead. don't try to help or be a hero even how much you may want to. with a good team and friend willing to try its also possible at lvl 1.

let me know what else i may have missed that you may want help in.

good luck with everything =3

and once again SORRY THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO LONG