Companions are good, but pets have their own advantages.
Managing them comes with a whole host of additional complexity that isn’t always intuitive.
Thankfully, the one resource that Elin gives in abundance is time to learn and grow.
How To Collect Pets
There are a few different methods for collecting pets.
Further along the homestead questline, you’llencounter the Steel Dragon, Corgon, who can also be recruited.
Animal tamers will sell an assortment of pets.
Outside of quests and vendors, you have a couple of options for gaining new critters.
Capturing is easier than raising them from an egg, buthatched pets have stronger stat growththan their wild counterparts.
Common balls can appear in regular stores and are available at the prize counter of the Fortune Bell Casino.
High-level balls can be purchased from Miral and Garokk’s workshop.
The other option for gaining new pets is tohatch them from fertilized eggs.
How To Raise Your Pet’s Affinity
Growing affinity with a pet gives a few different benefits.
The primary benefit is faster growth for characters at high affinity.
Additionally, ahigh affinity lets you retrieve equipment you’ve given themwithout upsetting them.
Headpat
Worshipers of Horome can use this abilityto raise affinity with any character.
It shares a cooldown with chatting but has no chance of reducing affinity.
Love Potions
Love potions givean instant large boost to affinity.
While visiting the drug dealer, be on the lookout for acid-proof liquids.
These can be applied to your equipment tomake it immune to stat-decreasing acid damage.
A good way around this is tolet them ride you using the Symbiosis skill.
The greatest advantage of symbiosis is thatyour symbiote pet cannot be killedeven if an enemy successfully targets it.
You’ll need togive them a diet that represents the stats you want them to gain.
In this case, endurance-raising foods won’t help since this diet relies on damage immunities for survival.
Foods that improve its attack power will be multiplied by that high speed.
This does mean the kitten riding on your head can take the guns from an unlocked firearms drawer.
If you don’t want them to do this, you caninstruct them not to use shared equipment.
You’ll need touse gene editingto give them any abilities they don’t start with.
Activated abilities, such as fire breath or taunt, are expensive but open up a lot of options.
We take a look and how Elin and Elona compare to each other.
