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Steam News14 August 20241y ago

PATCH 0.24.71

Pet System Prepare to unlock new bonds, discover hidden potentials, and traverse uncharted territories alongside your faithful companions.

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addedPet SystemPrepare to unlock new bonds, discover hidden potentials, and traverse uncharted territories alongside your faithful companions. With enhanced features and mysterious surprises awaiting, the adventure awaits those daring enough to explore the world.
changedPet TraitsShapeshifter This pet trait allows you to turn into the pet itself, moving faster and ignoring enemy collision.
changedPet TraitsBlinker This pet trait allows you to teleport to maps you've already visited, making it easier to kill bosses you left for later.
addedAetherA new currency harvested from pets. You can set a pet free and get an amount of Aether based on the pet Rank and rarity. You can use Aether to upgrade a pet rank without bringing it to battles.

Pet System

Prepare to unlock new bonds, discover hidden potentials, and traverse uncharted territories alongside your faithful companions. With enhanced features and mysterious surprises awaiting, the adventure awaits those daring enough to explore the world.

The Pet System is a "quality of life (QOL)" system, which should help you progress without giving you major stat boosts.

  • 64 Pets to unlock

  • Different pet traits to mix and match

  • Collect all pets to unlock bonuses

  • Evolve the pets and build the ultimate companion

Pet Traits

Shapeshifter This pet trait allows you to turn into the pet itself, moving faster and ignoring enemy collision.

Soulfetcher This pet trait allows you to collect the souls of bosses weaker bosses, allowing you to progress with minimal backtracking.

Blinker This pet trait allows you to teleport to maps you've already visited, making it easier to kill bosses you left for later.

Shopper This pet trait gives you a discount when buying any gear or relic.

Managing Traits

Traits are limited by the pet rarity, each rarity has a limit of how many traits your pet can have, the maximum rank it can achieve, and which traits the pet can unlock.

  • COMMON: Can only unlock one trait, the max rank is 3

  • RARE: Can unlock two traits, the max rank is 5

  • EPIC: Can unlock two traits, the max rank is 7, can unlock the Soulfetcher trait

  • LEGENDARY: Can unlock three traits, the max rank is 10, can unlock the Soulfetcher trait

Rank

When battling, your pet will gain experience with you. For each monster you defeat, the pet will earn 1 exp (2 for bosses), this value can be affected by the "All or Nothing" skill.

Aether

A new currency harvested from pets. You can set a pet free and get an amount of Aether based on the pet Rank and rarity. You can use Aether to upgrade a pet rank without bringing it to battles.

Codex

There area 64 pets to collect. By collecting a certain amount of pets you'll receive a bonus, being:

  • Wild Pets: +1%, +2%, +3% and +4% EXP (10% total)

  • Unique Pets: +1%, +2%, +3% and +4% GOLD (10% total)

Hatching

There are two ways you can hatch a Pet:

  • By dropping an egg from monsters

  • By buying eggs with Tickets

When hatching you'll get a random pet, the only way to know which pet you will get is by killing mobs with the "paw" icon, these mobs are certain to drop an egg that will hatch the corresponding pet.

That's all for now, feel free to ask questions on our discord channel: https://discord.gg/krTgX2y27J

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Steam News / 14 August 2024

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