Is pets usefull?

[Kikigirl]

Here’s some info to chew on:

From 11/08/22 Age of Sorcery Chapter 2 Devstream Recap:

@darthphysicist

Another change is with respect to pets. Pets had generic attacks that were unbalanced and caused the fighting effectiveness of various pets to be either too powerful (e.g. cats) or too weak (e.g. gorillas and scorpions). With the exception of gorillas and scorpions, pets in chapter 2 will be heavily nerfed as they recalibrate their in game balance. The intent of the nerf is to rebaseline pets which at first will make them quite weak, but over time, they will be retuned to bring their power level up to what is appropriate. Pets will never be as powerful as thralls even after retuning, but they will not be as weak in the future as they are upon release of chapter 2. They are intentionally weaker than thralls to reflect the ease of picking them up and taming them vs thralls. Gorillas and scorpions however are the exception because they were so bad, Dennis and the team felt they needed to be addressed immediately. These changes were necessary because as they adjusted thrall power, there wasn’t an independent knob in place to control pets. The changes being made address this so they can be fine tuned independently. Dennis mentioned that making pets level faster is being considered. Pets are a work in progress.

We’re at about the 1.5 year mark since this happened. I forget exactly when but there was an increase to a few things but nothing substantial enough for it to have been beneficial. Other than horses… if you could classify them as pets?

“They are intentionally weaker than thralls to reflect the ease of picking them up and taming them vs thralls.”

In that same update you could purchase high tier fighters with Obulous that has since been removed.

But now thralls can be broken in an hour or less. Even if they come out weak you can reroll their attributes with potions too.

So while I can appreciate a want to even it out it’s now become almost a non-issue and tipped the scales. Also can be critically touted as Doll House EasyMode afaiac.

There’s very little RNG with baby spawns. There’s either guaranteed for a decent portion of the heavy hitters and for everything else you just kill and wait for the respawn in about 15 minutes.

The added issue is the RNG with making greaters. Never a guarantee you’ll get one…

Heard that the purchased pets you can get through the Sacred Hunt are decent though. I haven’t tested them myself.