Pet Skill & Rarity Guide

Master pet skills and rarity in Epic Seven. Understand how pets like The Great Mage Fluri provide stat bonuses and quality of life improvements for farming.

Pets in Epic Seven are invaluable companions that provide significant quality-of-life improvements and stat bonuses. Understanding their skills and rarity is crucial for optimizing your gameplay, whether you're farming materials, enhancing equipment, or tackling challenging content.

Pet Rarity and Acquisition

Pets come in different rarities, impacting their potential skill slots and stat bonuses. The higher the rarity, the more powerful they can become.

• Common (1-Star): These are your starting pets. They have limited skill slots (typically one) and lower potential for stat bonuses. They are primarily used for breeding to transfer desired skills or to increase the rarity of other pets.
• Uncommon (2-Star): A step up from Common, offering slightly better base stats and potentially two skill slots.
• Rare (3-Star): These pets begin to offer more substantial benefits, often coming with two or three skill slots. They are a good target for early-game skill customization.
• Epic (4-Star): Highly sought after, Epic pets boast excellent base stats and typically have three or four skill slots, allowing for a wide range of utility.
• Legendary (5-Star): The pinnacle of pet rarity. Legendary pets offer the highest stat bonuses and come with four or five skill slots, making them essential for end-game optimization.

Pets are primarily acquired through the Pet House located in your Sanctuary. You can obtain new pets by using Pet Tickets or Skystones for summons. Additionally, you can breed existing pets to potentially create higher rarity pets or transfer skills.

Understanding Pet Skills

Pet skills are categorized into various types, each offering unique benefits. A pet can have up to five skills, depending on its rarity and successful breeding attempts. Skills are crucial for enhancing your farming efficiency and overall progression.

Skill Types and Recommended Uses

Here's a breakdown of essential pet skill types and where they shine:

1. Battle Skills: These skills activate during combat or after completing a stage. They are invaluable for farming and resource generation.
   • Increased Gold Acquisition: Essential for all players. Prioritize this for general farming. A pet with a high percentage increase in gold is a must-have for any content where you're grinding for currency.
   • Increased Experience Acquisition: Speeds up hero leveling. Pair this with Gold Acquisition for efficient fodder farming in stages like World 4-S2 (if you're still early game) or later, more advanced farming spots.
   • Increased Catalyst Drop Rate: Crucial for hero awakenings and skill enhancements. Target specific catalysts by farming their respective stages with a pet equipped with this skill.
   • Increased Equipment Drop Rate: Useful for hunting better gear in Hunts (Wyvern, Golem, Banshee, Azimanak).
   • Increased Rune Drop Rate: Important for Spirit Altar runs to awaken heroes.
2. Lobby Skills: These skills provide passive benefits while the pet is assigned to your lobby.
   • Increased Sanctuary Production: Boosts the output of your Forest of Souls, Steel Workshop, and Heart of Orbis. This is a long-term investment that pays dividends.
   • Reduced Equipment Enhancement Cost: A significant saving for late-game players constantly upgrading gear.
   • Reduced Equipment Charm Enhancement Cost: Similar to the above, saving resources on charm usage.
3. Adventure Skills: These skills provide benefits specifically during Adventure stages.
   • Increased AP Acquisition: Helps accumulate Ancient Coins faster for the AP Exchange Shop.
   • Increased Friendship Acquisition: Speeds up hero friendship levels, unlocking their side stories and expressions.

Skill Ranks and Enhancement

Each pet skill has a rank (e.g., S, A, B, C). A higher rank indicates a stronger effect. When breeding, there's a chance to inherit a higher rank skill from the parent pets. To enhance a pet's skill rank, you'll need to breed it with another pet that has the same skill, hoping for a successful rank-up. This process can be resource-intensive, requiring Pet Adoption Tickets or Skystones for repeated attempts.

Breeding Strategy for Optimal Pets

Breeding is the primary method to improve your pets' rarity and acquire desired skills. It's a strategic process that requires patience and planning.

1. Identify Target Skills: Decide which skills are most important for your current needs (e.g., Gold + EXP for farming, Catalyst + Equipment Drop for specific hunts).
2. Acquire Fodder Pets: Summon or acquire common pets with the desired skills, even if they are low rarity. These will be your "skill donors."
3. Rarity Up: Breed two pets of the same rarity to attempt to create a pet of the next higher rarity. For example, two 1-star pets can produce a 2-star pet. This is crucial for unlocking more skill slots.
4. Skill Transfer: When breeding, you can select specific skills from the parent pets to attempt to transfer to the offspring. The success rate for skill transfer can vary. Prioritize transferring high-rank versions of your target skills.
5. Combine and Refine: Continue breeding pets, combining those with desired skills and higher rarity. For example, if you have a 3-star pet with "Increased Gold (S)" and another 3-star pet with "Increased EXP (S)," breed them together to try and get a 4-star pet with both skills.
6. Awakening: Once a pet reaches 5-star rarity, you can "Awaken" it using Pet Awakening Potions. Awakening unlocks the pet's final skill slot and provides a significant stat boost. These potions can be obtained from events, the Pet House shop, or sometimes as drops from specific content.

Pro-Tip: Don't be afraid to use lower rarity pets as "skill fodder" to transfer specific skills to a higher rarity pet you're developing. The goal is to consolidate all your desired high-rank skills onto a single, high-rarity pet.