Pet Guide
(01-27-2008)
Pet Guide
So where do we get Pets? Currently, there are several possible ways to acquire them:
1. Purchasing them in the Item Mall. Pets can easily be bought from the Item Mall for 119 Rum, but please note that this price may change. All pets have the same price.
2. Through Game Events. There are some in-game events that will allow you to acquire pets. You can get one by doing the story quest(read Snowy's Story Quest guide)
3. Monster Drops. Some Bosses in the game drop Fairy Boxes which allows a player to acquire a random Pet Fairy. Some of these monsters include: Lv55 Wandering Soul, Lv65 Snowman Warlord, Lv75 Icy Dragon, and of course, the crowd favorite, Lv90 Black Dragon.
Note that acquiring a pet from these methods will give you a Lv0 Pet with full stamina and growth rate. You may also acquire pets from other players, where they can be sold as freshly acquired Lv0 Pets, or ones that have been raised by other players.
All pets are basically the same, except in appearance of course. It's the owner who decides what stat to increase for the pet and which skill books to give it.
Equipping Pet
In order for you to 'see' your pet in the game, you need to place them on the inventory slot where there is an image of a fairy. Only through this you will be able to make use of your pet's bonuses. An equipped pet will also consume stamina and increase growth rate(experience) points.
Stamina n Growth Rate
What is Pet Stamina? Stamina is sort of, a pet's 'HP'. But it doesn't mean that when the stamina gets depleted, the pet will 'die' or anything like that. When the pet's stamina reaches 0, it will simply be deactivated, meaning the pet's owner will not be able to benefit from the pet's bonuses. Also, you will not be able to see your pet floating around you when stamina goes dry. To replenish stamina, we need to use pet stamina recovering items, currently there are two items in the game for restoring lost stamina:
1. Pet Ration - Restores 50 stamina points, can be bought from Item mall only.
2. Pet Food - Restores 5 stamina points, dropped by Lv31 Vampire Bats from Silver Mine 1, and Lv15 Sailor Squirt(thanks to YG818) at deep blue.
A pet consumes stamina in order to raise its growth rate, or experience points. Each point of stamina is used every 60 seconds if you have taught a pet ONE skill. This number will drop to 30 seconds if you have taught your pet 3 skills. Note that everytime a pet increases level, its max Stamina points will also go up.
What is Pet Growth Rate? Growth Rate is the pet's experience point. It is raised through consuming stamina points, so if you do not have any stamina points, your pet wont gain any exp.
Once a pet maxes its growth rate, you will see the yellow bar under the pet's stamina bar blink green, this indicates that you may then use stat fruits to grant bonus stat increase. Once you use a fruit on a pet, its exp bar will be brought back to 0 and its level increased by 1. You will then need to keep feeding it stamina items to use stat fruits on it again. Note that everytime a pet increases level, its Exp requirement will also go up.
The list below shows the Pet's Level and its corresponding Stamina/Growth points up to Level 5. (Although I am not absolutely sure, Stamina is raised by increments of 20 points per level, and growth points by 120*x where x is [Pet Levelx2]. This formula excludes Level 1 where the pet has 100/240 pts by default.)
Lvl-Sta/Gro
Lv0 100/240
Lv1 120/240
Lv2 140/480
Lv3 160/720
Lv4 180/960
Lv5 200/1200
Stats Fruit n Skill Book
Stat Fruits. There are 5 different kinds of stat fruits that can be fed to a pet:
1. Zephyr Fish Floss - increases ACC by 1.
2. Shaitan Biscuit - increases SPR by 1.
3. Argent Mango - increases CON by 1.
4. Snow Dragon Fruit - increases STR by 1.
5. Icespire Plum - increases AGI by 1.
These can only be fed to pets with Maxed growth rate. Note that the higher a pet's level is, the lesser the chance for successfully gaining a level for the pet. If you fed your pet a fruit and your attempt in leveling it up failed, your growth rate will be cut in half.
Skill Books. There are 3 different skill levels that a pet can learn, which are Novice, Standard, and Expert. Of course, the better the skill book level, the better the effects of the skill.
1. Novice Books - Can be acquired from treasure maps.
2. Standard Books - Purchased from Item Mall for 19 rum.
3. Expert Books - Not available yet in the game.
Learning skills also have chances of failure:
1. First skill book, success rate to learn = 100%
2. Second skill book, success rate to learn = 60%
3. Third skill book, success rate to learn = 30%
This means that the more skills you have taught your pet, the higher the chances of failing when trying to teach it a new skill. PLUS, when you try teaching the second skill, you have a 60% chance of success, and 40% chance of OVERWRITING AN EXISTING SKILL. Same goes for the third skill, you have a 70% chance of overwriting an existing skill.
Skill effect is upgraded with higher level books. The following is a list of the skill books that can be used to teach pets:
1. Book of Protection - sort of like a Cleric's Energy Shield. When the player's HP goes down to 20% and below, the fairy takes the damage. Stamina damage is a percentage of the actual damage, the remaining percentaage not blocked by skill will be received by player. (We still need to confirm this. Talked to a player once and told me dat @ standard level, skill blocks out 25%) Skill damage is not reduced by this skill
2. Book of Berserk - player deals critical damage. This does NOT mean that a player's berserk rate is increased. Skill is activated by chance, the system chat box also displays if the crit/berserk was activated by the pet. (In my personal experience of using this skill on my pet, the chances of activating berserk hits by pet is around 10%(or probably lower) at standard level.)
3. Book of Magic - increases magical damage for Herbalist and Explorer class. (Can anyone fill us in on how much does damage does this skill add up? in percentage of course.)
4. Book of Recover - increases HP recovery rate. (Can anyone fill us in on how much HP recov rate this skill adds?)
5. Book of Meditation - increase SP recovery rate. (This adds about +8 or +10 sp recovery rate @ standard level, pretty sure about this estimate coz it works better than my sp recov neck w/c adds +6 sp recov. wud be a good replacement for sp necks, so we can use Resist+ rings instead)
A pet can only learn up to 3 skills. If the 3 skill slots have already been taken, you cannot teach a fourth unique skill to the pet. This means you CANNOT delete skills once you have taught your pet these skill/s. Teaching a pet skills do not require/deplete maxed growth rate, this means you can immediately teach all 3 skills to a Lv0 pet.
1. Purchasing them in the Item Mall. Pets can easily be bought from the Item Mall for 119 Rum, but please note that this price may change. All pets have the same price.
2. Through Game Events. There are some in-game events that will allow you to acquire pets. You can get one by doing the story quest(read Snowy's Story Quest guide)
3. Monster Drops. Some Bosses in the game drop Fairy Boxes which allows a player to acquire a random Pet Fairy. Some of these monsters include: Lv55 Wandering Soul, Lv65 Snowman Warlord, Lv75 Icy Dragon, and of course, the crowd favorite, Lv90 Black Dragon.
Note that acquiring a pet from these methods will give you a Lv0 Pet with full stamina and growth rate. You may also acquire pets from other players, where they can be sold as freshly acquired Lv0 Pets, or ones that have been raised by other players.
All pets are basically the same, except in appearance of course. It's the owner who decides what stat to increase for the pet and which skill books to give it.
Equipping Pet
In order for you to 'see' your pet in the game, you need to place them on the inventory slot where there is an image of a fairy. Only through this you will be able to make use of your pet's bonuses. An equipped pet will also consume stamina and increase growth rate(experience) points.
Stamina n Growth Rate
What is Pet Stamina? Stamina is sort of, a pet's 'HP'. But it doesn't mean that when the stamina gets depleted, the pet will 'die' or anything like that. When the pet's stamina reaches 0, it will simply be deactivated, meaning the pet's owner will not be able to benefit from the pet's bonuses. Also, you will not be able to see your pet floating around you when stamina goes dry. To replenish stamina, we need to use pet stamina recovering items, currently there are two items in the game for restoring lost stamina:
1. Pet Ration - Restores 50 stamina points, can be bought from Item mall only.
2. Pet Food - Restores 5 stamina points, dropped by Lv31 Vampire Bats from Silver Mine 1, and Lv15 Sailor Squirt(thanks to YG818) at deep blue.
A pet consumes stamina in order to raise its growth rate, or experience points. Each point of stamina is used every 60 seconds if you have taught a pet ONE skill. This number will drop to 30 seconds if you have taught your pet 3 skills. Note that everytime a pet increases level, its max Stamina points will also go up.
What is Pet Growth Rate? Growth Rate is the pet's experience point. It is raised through consuming stamina points, so if you do not have any stamina points, your pet wont gain any exp.
Once a pet maxes its growth rate, you will see the yellow bar under the pet's stamina bar blink green, this indicates that you may then use stat fruits to grant bonus stat increase. Once you use a fruit on a pet, its exp bar will be brought back to 0 and its level increased by 1. You will then need to keep feeding it stamina items to use stat fruits on it again. Note that everytime a pet increases level, its Exp requirement will also go up.
The list below shows the Pet's Level and its corresponding Stamina/Growth points up to Level 5. (Although I am not absolutely sure, Stamina is raised by increments of 20 points per level, and growth points by 120*x where x is [Pet Levelx2]. This formula excludes Level 1 where the pet has 100/240 pts by default.)
Lvl-Sta/Gro
Lv0 100/240
Lv1 120/240
Lv2 140/480
Lv3 160/720
Lv4 180/960
Lv5 200/1200
Stats Fruit n Skill Book
Stat Fruits. There are 5 different kinds of stat fruits that can be fed to a pet:
1. Zephyr Fish Floss - increases ACC by 1.
2. Shaitan Biscuit - increases SPR by 1.
3. Argent Mango - increases CON by 1.
4. Snow Dragon Fruit - increases STR by 1.
5. Icespire Plum - increases AGI by 1.
These can only be fed to pets with Maxed growth rate. Note that the higher a pet's level is, the lesser the chance for successfully gaining a level for the pet. If you fed your pet a fruit and your attempt in leveling it up failed, your growth rate will be cut in half.
Skill Books. There are 3 different skill levels that a pet can learn, which are Novice, Standard, and Expert. Of course, the better the skill book level, the better the effects of the skill.
1. Novice Books - Can be acquired from treasure maps.
2. Standard Books - Purchased from Item Mall for 19 rum.
3. Expert Books - Not available yet in the game.
Learning skills also have chances of failure:
1. First skill book, success rate to learn = 100%
2. Second skill book, success rate to learn = 60%
3. Third skill book, success rate to learn = 30%
This means that the more skills you have taught your pet, the higher the chances of failing when trying to teach it a new skill. PLUS, when you try teaching the second skill, you have a 60% chance of success, and 40% chance of OVERWRITING AN EXISTING SKILL. Same goes for the third skill, you have a 70% chance of overwriting an existing skill.
Skill effect is upgraded with higher level books. The following is a list of the skill books that can be used to teach pets:
1. Book of Protection - sort of like a Cleric's Energy Shield. When the player's HP goes down to 20% and below, the fairy takes the damage. Stamina damage is a percentage of the actual damage, the remaining percentaage not blocked by skill will be received by player. (We still need to confirm this. Talked to a player once and told me dat @ standard level, skill blocks out 25%) Skill damage is not reduced by this skill
2. Book of Berserk - player deals critical damage. This does NOT mean that a player's berserk rate is increased. Skill is activated by chance, the system chat box also displays if the crit/berserk was activated by the pet. (In my personal experience of using this skill on my pet, the chances of activating berserk hits by pet is around 10%(or probably lower) at standard level.)
3. Book of Magic - increases magical damage for Herbalist and Explorer class. (Can anyone fill us in on how much does damage does this skill add up? in percentage of course.)
4. Book of Recover - increases HP recovery rate. (Can anyone fill us in on how much HP recov rate this skill adds?)
5. Book of Meditation - increase SP recovery rate. (This adds about +8 or +10 sp recovery rate @ standard level, pretty sure about this estimate coz it works better than my sp recov neck w/c adds +6 sp recov. wud be a good replacement for sp necks, so we can use Resist+ rings instead)
A pet can only learn up to 3 skills. If the 3 skill slots have already been taken, you cannot teach a fourth unique skill to the pet. This means you CANNOT delete skills once you have taught your pet these skill/s. Teaching a pet skills do not require/deplete maxed growth rate, this means you can immediately teach all 3 skills to a Lv0 pet.
